Compassionate Collaboration 🤝
Thoughts on team-work, governance and prosocial collaboration
Compassionate Collaboration 🤝
Meetings are microcosms and expressions of culture, serving as high-leverage places to build or change culture. It is important to design meetings in a way that engages people meaningfully and deeply in all aspects of analysis and works to build trust, ownership, and commitment.
Why Who How Where What When
Perspective is key, also in teamwork → do a bio-storm (brainstorm in nature) to see the whole again
Create a 'Yes' culture
Begin with the end in mind: make a map with deliverables
Get physical/real and make the space remember
Never forget to celebrate
Work together, alone, to balance talking with doing
Keep the stages of group development in mind (and
Levels of communication
Tell (information transfer / ie if there is a fire youd tell people about it)
Share (sharing stories, reflections )
Engage ( mutual query, engagement - entertainment, activation around shared values)
Develop (mutually being will and function in parties are developing together)
Deep listening and Awareness-based Systems Change
An open mind is the capacity to suspend old habits of judgment—to see with fresh eyes (remove the Voice of Judgment)
An open heart is the capacity to empathize and to look at a situation through the eyes of somebody else (remove the Voice of Cynisism)
An open will is the capacity to “let go” of the old and “let come” the new (remove the Voice of Fear)
Theory U
Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD). ABCD Process.