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Clean Language - From Contempt To Curiosity - Clean Language - using powerful questions to understand each other
Hi guys, I have heard about clean language in one of the podcast episodes of Nathy Ravez where she had as a guest Charles-Louis de Maare, whom I know from the visualization training I did with him. I was curious to find out more so I read the book “From Contempt To Curiosity - Creating the Conditions for Groups to Collaborate using Clean Language and Systemic Modelling” by Caitlin Walker. I find this method very useful in different settings, either in getting all perspectives in a room where people need to be heard, or in coaching sessions, it is very versatile and has been used for many years in various areas. So I will share here my notes from it and next week I will share more about how you can use it for teams. What does clean language mean? Clean language is about asking questions without projecting the other person's answer. It is about accepting and extending what has been said. You know these situations where you would like to reappraise for example using repositioning reappraisal and you seem not to get the other person's perspective? There is a good situation where clean language can support well. The idea is to respect the other person's opinion even if it does not make sense to you and ask questions until you get their perspective. Clean language helps to do this in a fast way, using a few questions. What would a clean language conversation look like? There are several questions to be asked and the main idea is to relate to what the other persons just said in order to build the next question on it. Here is an example of which questions can be asked: Example of dialogues extracted from the book: “A: What would you like to have happened?” Guy: I would like to get more in touch with my feelings so that I can write better songs about them.
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Clean Language - From Contempt To Curiosity - Clean Language - using powerful questions to understand each other
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@Andra Stefanescu Thank you for the awesome sharing ! 🙏
New Miroverse template - Compassionate Communication Reflection - How to guide a team going through difficult conversations
Hey, I created a new Miroverse template - a 2 steps approach on how you can help a team going through difficult conversations: https://miro.com/miroverse/compassionate-communication-reflection-template/ Here is a complete retrospective sequence where this way of communication is used together with PLAYMOBIL pro figures, a match that I have invented and it works amazing with all the teams I have tried: What was the Team Retrospective’s challenge? One time, I was asked to design and facilitate a retrospective for a team. The context was: - the team was working together for a few years, a very mature level - the coach of this team told me that in one-to-one sessions they had a pattern appeared about one person on this team who was repeatedly doing things that all the other team members were not fine with - scheduling sessions with different persons in order to get information without involving the other team members - that person's intentions were good, like any other team members - the tension was in the air and was hard to put it on the table in a way that it’s addressed and things are changing How did I design the session? When I thought through how I could hold this retrospective I had one big concern and I formulated like this: how might I support this team to have compassionate communication without the person feeling guilty and ashamed in front of the others for the consequences of his behavior? And I thought to start the session with an appreciation exercise like this: - I invited all members of the team to think in silence in the last weeks (they were working in sprints of 3-week cycles) and note down what they learned and got help with from each other member of the team - For the next step, I invited them to build a Playmobil Pro model for each team member showing the things they learned and got help with - this meant each person would build 5 other models
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New Miroverse template - Compassionate Communication Reflection - How to guide a team going through difficult conversations
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Thank you @Andra Stefanescu for the kind sharing 👍🙏🏽
📍Where is everyone from?📍
Hello Facilitators👋 I'm really curious about where everyone is from. I'd love to make this a mega post where we can see how diverse the Facilitator Club community is. Who knows, you might find a lot more people in your area than you thought! Once I have lots of answers on this post, I want to make a nice graph!
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📍Where is everyone from?📍
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Welcome to the Community @Jessica Wolf ! 🥳
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Welcome to the Community @Gabriel Amaral ! 🙌
🚀 Share your first workshop or facilitation experience...
My first experience taught me valuable lessons. With better preparation, I could have enhanced the workshop's impact and opened doors to more opportunities with larger companies. If you'd like to learn more, please don't hesitate to reach out. This was my first workshop, and it featured major companies like Google/Waze, the Los Angeles Transportation Department, Super73 Inc., BLADE, and Lyft. Despite its success, I felt nervous and unqualified to lead an event with industry giants. Workshop: Interactive Mobility Collaboration in Los Angeles Pros: - Over 100+ attendees, executives, engineers, designers, city officials - Influential industry leaders participated. - Held at Google Campus in Venice Beach, LA. - Generated innovative solutions to address challenges. Cons: - Lack of backup challenges in case not all five were generated (by design). - Workshop couldn't be completed due to time constraints imposed by Google's policies. - Difficulty in synthesizing the collected data, leaving the challenge results incomplete. - Limited ongoing connections with participants, suggesting room for improvement in event management. Event Page https://www.startupgrind.com/events/details/startup-grind-west-los-angeles-presents-startup-grind-google-an-interactive-group-collaboration-on-mobility-in-los-angeles/
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🚀 Share your first workshop or facilitation experience...
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Well done @Atlas Blake ! 🎉👍
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@Atlas Blake More great things coming your way ! 🙏🏽
Design Sprint Q&A with Andra Stefanescu
TL;DR - The amazing @Andra Stefanescu has offered to participate in a (community organized) Q&A session with us and share her experiences of running Design Sprints. Based on the idea that you learn better together, a few Design Sprint newbies from this community got together in the last few weeks to share their insights. (Thanks to @Kumar R @Ren Yee Quek @Abdelrahman Hussien @LaYinka Sanni @Michael Passer for joining the sessions). To help us newbies out, Andra has graciously offered to share her experience. She's run Design Sprints in person, online, one week, two weeks, partial sprints, or summer edition sprints (over 3 months) 😀 I'm so excited to learn from her. Whether you attended the Friday sessions or not - we are now meeting on September 15th for the Q&A with Andra. Join us if you'd like! Here are the details (see also the attached calendar file you can import): Design Sprint Q&A with Andra Stefanescu 15. Sep 2023 at 17:00 to 18:00, CEST Andra's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andracristianastefanescu/ Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85636719114?pwd=NDVKYXErN2tXbGcwNkN1S2E4MkJoQT09 Hope to see you all there!
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Thank you @Claus Höfele and @Andra Stefanescu for your kind time and willings to share your invaluable SPRINT experience, 🙏🏽🎉
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Kumar R
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Hey All ! Kumar here, pleasure to meet all SPRINT'ers new & seasoned ones ! My background is across technology, fitness, productivity & metaphysics !

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