First, I want to say thank you to everyone who wrote in with positivity and gratitude for JOY. It felt really good. And even better to have support around an ending. THANK YOU. This week I share about my process around digging through some not so attractive ego stuff. I am always grateful to sift through the darkness, but it is a vulnerable experience nonetheless. I know many of you are on similar adventures of the psyche. Thank you for sharing your stories with me. I'm listening. Like I say, it's crowded down here in the hole. Thank goodness. Good to be with you down here. ………………………………………………………………………………………. When I was in high school if you cut...
Thanks to everyone who wrote in with a request for last week's podcast transcript. You have helped illuminate that there is an interest in sharing my essays on FEEDBACK in particular with your friends and colleagues outside of this mighty newsletter crew. I am still organizing my future ARCHIVES - which will allow us to have a home for all these little things like newsletter archives and podcast transcripts but in the meantime what follows is the requested transcript from WHY FEEDBACK IS LIKE SPAGHETTI. You can also listen to it here. WHY FEEDBACK IS LIKE SPAGHETTI PSYCHOLOGY AND SEEING WHAT STICKS. This past weekend marked a real milestone for me in skateboarding. I was finally able to...
First, a big giant THANK YOU, high five and bear hug to all of you who filled out THE WORLD FEEDBACK SURVEY! I have been reading your stories and they are truly heartfelt. Those of you who are interested in being interviewed, I'll be responding, so hang tight. But for now, big ugly cry thank you for participating in this adventure. If you missed the announcement last week, head here to learn more. As Part Two of my Feedback + Critique discussion, I’m excited to share my project on feedback for the Human-Centered Systems Thinking course I completed last month. For those of you who have asked, the course is offered through IDEO University. I have completed two of their courses, and...
I’ve spent the last 5 weeks completing a Human Centered System Thinking Course. Based on the name I had no idea what it was either. Essentially I took a course about solving organizational challenges by focusing on the connections and relationships between different groups of people within a system and how these relationships and connections facilitate and impede organizational goals and wellbeing. Simple enough. And the course was fantastic. I loved it and I will be sharing the project I worked on for the duration of the course in next week's newsletter. But for now, I wanted to share a larger observation of the course. And it centers on the exclusive nature of language. It seems that the design...
This week on the podcast I offer up a THEORY episode about a psychiatric nurse and a patient I worked with on a hospital unit many years ago. It’s a sweet story about life and work and how the hard journey of getting to know ourselves is always worth it. I briefly mention a co-therapist style of group facilitation and I wanted to share here in the newsletter a little background on the significance of group work and the specific reasons why this co-facilitator style is so effective. Before we dive in, I want to encourage you to welcome yourself to this conversation. A lot of discussions like this are had by professionals trying to foster change, yet the...
