The Instructor Zone
Everything You Need to Know?
“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” ― Richard Buckminster Fuller
Circle up – Who Are MWe?
In small circles, we will go around the zoom and share:
- Our Names
- What else to you do for work?
- One WORD describing how we are feeling today
- One intention for today
- An intention is where you are focusing your energy – your aim, your objective
✋?✋?✋?Raise hands if groups is small✋?✋?✋?
Our Harvest
Upon returning to the main circle – we will harvest (share) some of what was moving in the smaller conversations.
Expectations
- Learn to use and guide youth through the Body~Mind~Heart Connection
- Learn to engage youth using the Generative Social Fields
- Learn to engage youth using the Evocation Interviewing
- Learn to engage youth using the Taking Sides Activities
- Learn to engage youth using the Systems Thinking Iceberg
- Learn to engage youth using the Ladder of Inference and the Ladder of Connectedness
Tool ~ The Body Mind Heart Connection
What is the BMH Connection?
It is a centering space to be:
What we need you to do?
How we will use it?
Tool ~ Generative Social Fields
WHAT?
The Social Field is the natural, pre-given structure of relationships among individuals, groups, organizations and systems that give rise to collective behaviors and outcomes.
WHY?
All human beings participate in co-creating the complex social contexts they live in and engage with.
Our emotional systems help us maintain balance.
Life is challenging when we interact with the emotional systems of others.
HOW?
We have the ability to co-create a generative social field in which we facilitate deep conversations about big issues, and shape a safe and supportive climate where individuals in our teams/systems can feel emotionally safe, connected and respected.
WHEN?
There is always a social field, either generative or degenerative depending on how people are showing up.
~ Qualities of Generative Social Fields ~
Take in the words on these two hands to get a better sense of what Generative Social Fields are and what the word Generative means.
A Thought Experiment
Take a moment to consider the Social Fields you exist in.
For example – your school or program is a social field.
Another might be your family. How do you show up in these spaces?
How do you contribute to your social fields?
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In what ways are you making generative contributions?
- In what ways might you be degenerative?
- What might you take away from these spaces?
Pro-Action Plan Step Week One (4 of 8):
My Place in the Field
On your “Thought experiment Page” reflect on these questions. Feel free to enter a written entry, an audio entry, or a video entry on this page.
Note: You will need to discuss your answers in our circles during our sessions together.
When We Circle Up
During our sessions we will often break out into small groups (circles). In these circles we will share our reflections and discoveries.
Note: one of the team members should assume the position of circle keeper in the small room. Remember your commitments to one another from the main group.
In the circle:
- Always remember to introduce yourself to new people in the circle
- Round One: Describe one intention and one expectation you have for this summer.
- Round Two: Answer any or all the questions from the thought experiment:
- How do you contribute to your social fields?
- In what ways are you making generative contributions?
- In what ways might you be degenerative?
- What might you take away from these spaces?
✋?✋?✋?Raise hands if groups is small✋?✋?✋?
Harvest
Upon returning to the main circle – we will HARVEST (share) some of what was moving in the smaller conversations.
The Question in the main circle will connect back to our favorite question: What is moving in me?
A Thought Experiment
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:
Take a few minutes and think about the our Social Field as instructors, mentors, and guides to those we serve.
How are we creating a generative social fields for our kids?
And where are the places where we can improve?
Harvest
What is moving in you?
(Upon returning to the main circle – we will harvest (share) some of what was moving in the smaller conversations.)
Instructor Note
How you will use it?
When you will use it?
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Tool ~ Evocation Interviewing
It’s one thing to be able to feel your emotions, feelings, and mood and to learn to put words to each for one’s self – to create an emotional fluency which allows you to better understand your human experience.
It is entirely another thing to be able to have the confidence to share your experiences with others using this vocabulary. This tool helps us better describe our experiences by challenging us to use of senses to breath life into our memories and to help others feel what we may have felt.
Harvest
What is moving in you?
(Upon returning to the main circle – we will harvest (share) some of what was moving in the smaller conversations.)
Instructor Note
When to use it
Tool ~ Taking Sides Activity
How do we teach our kids to process information in group settings?
How do we help them understand how to make contributions and to bring ideas forward with confidence?
How do we help them understand group dynamics?
How do we get them to see that we are all Taking Sides all the time and that in order to achieve goals in groups settings, we need to be able to express our thoughts and ideas and be able to work towards collaboration.
Instructor Note
When to use it
Tool ~ Systems Thinking Iceberg
In order to help our young people survive and thrive in world we must show them how to understand the existing systems. If we want to inspire them to live meaningful lives we must encourage them to find ways to reimagine the systems we live in.
Systems thinking is about looking at the big picture of how different parts of a system interact with and influence one another. Systems thinking is also about defining a problem, forming a hypothesis, and building a model in order to enact a change regarding the problem.
Harvest
What is moving in you?
(Upon returning to the main circle – we will harvest (share) some of what was moving in the smaller conversations.)
Instructor Note
When to use it
Tool ~ Ladder of Inference
Harvest
What is moving in you?
(Upon returning to the main circle – we will harvest (share) some of what was moving in the smaller conversations.)
Instructor Note
When to use it
Belonging is the capacity to see the humanity in those that are not like us and to recognize that the same elements that exist within them also exist within us. It means that we have to see the humanity in others, even if they refuse to see the same in us. Yeah, belonging is really hard work, and the capacity to see the humanity in those that are not like us is perhaps one of the most powerful practices we need to cultivate. It is a way of constructing an imagined connection, a kinship, an identity that allows us to make sense of the world that is both real and imagined. But it requires that we see the myth in us versus them. — The Four Pivots – Dr . Shawn A. Ginwright
Tool ~ Ladder of Connectedness
As humans, we feel most as though we belong when there is a deep emotional connection with others. The more we can create opportunities to deepen our connectedness with others, the more satisfying our relationships can be.
The Ladder of Connectedness is a model that shows the varying stages of connectedness that we experience on a regular basis with others. Through a self-reflective practice, we can begin to recognize how we’re showing up in the social field, how we might be relating to others in a particular circumstance, and ultimately consider how we might move ourselves “down the ladder” toward a more compassionate stance.
Instructor Note
When to use it
Harvest
What is moving in you?
(Upon returning to the main circle – we will harvest (share) some of what was moving in the smaller conversations.)
“Problem-solving is about making what you don’t want go away. Creating involves bringing something you care about into reality. This reflects a subtle yet profound distinction that, we believe, will make all the difference for the future.” – The Necessary Revolution- Peter Senge