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Flow of Day 4
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Story of Day 4
by Nguyen Thu Trang (Iris) Practicing communicating from the heart. Opening the first conversations among the group to learn about collaboration together. Sensing and diving deep into what is needed by conversations that matter. And now, it’s time for us to come back to the reality again, to the question “What is my next step?”
That’s why a major part of our last day is a process to Design for Wiser Actions. Each one of us come to this training with a different purpose, holding different questions. However, we are all interested in how to have more effective collaboration in our work and our life. Today, ten brave people in our group have decided to really plan a change and put themselves out to receive support from the whole group to design a process or a conversation that they find challenging but still full of hope. Yesterday I signed myself up to support my friend, Zach, to design a teachers’ meeting at his school. Ten change-makers were standing in a circle when the rest of us decided which one to support by standing behind the back of them. That’s right, we got your back. This morning, we will be conscious about The Breath Pattern to design the meeting together. As a supporter, it’s really beautiful for me to see myself and my team fully being there for our friend, listening to him, putting ourselves in his place, offering our perspectives but respecting him 100% to make his own decisions. The three of us are actually practicing holding space for our friend. The beauty of this process lies in its ability to get as much collective wisdom as possible. That’s why after the first round of designing, the supporters will go to a different conversation they choose while the callers can get new perspectives from fresh minds. |
All these inputs will be kept to only the callers to help them reflect on their design so far. After that, we as the supporters come back to the conversations that we are supporting to fine tune the design.
The final harvest after three intense rounds of conversations is one next step that the callers will take, a lot of gratitude and learnings for both the callers and the supporters, and a connection that we’ve formed from collaborating with each other.
Design for Wiser Action is the last collaboration process in the training. We’ve been through so much together. Looking back at everything we’ve got in the beautiful harvest in the wall, I find one question repeating again and again inside of me, next time louder than the last: “What’s next?”
We are sitting together again in a circle for one last time in the training – the last check-out. In the center is the question “What are you taking from this training?” The circle goes to the right this time, to close a cycle and release us back to our daily life, not the same “us” as we opened the circle in the first day.
So many emotions and precious takeaways. But as for me, there’s one word that keeps echoing in my head each time I hear it in the circle – Hope. Yes, it’s hope to bring us here, and it’s also hope that I and many others take away from these four days. A hope for more collaboration, love, trust, and support in our life. A hope because I am not alone. We are not alone.
And together, we’ll go far.
The final harvest after three intense rounds of conversations is one next step that the callers will take, a lot of gratitude and learnings for both the callers and the supporters, and a connection that we’ve formed from collaborating with each other.
Design for Wiser Action is the last collaboration process in the training. We’ve been through so much together. Looking back at everything we’ve got in the beautiful harvest in the wall, I find one question repeating again and again inside of me, next time louder than the last: “What’s next?”
We are sitting together again in a circle for one last time in the training – the last check-out. In the center is the question “What are you taking from this training?” The circle goes to the right this time, to close a cycle and release us back to our daily life, not the same “us” as we opened the circle in the first day.
So many emotions and precious takeaways. But as for me, there’s one word that keeps echoing in my head each time I hear it in the circle – Hope. Yes, it’s hope to bring us here, and it’s also hope that I and many others take away from these four days. A hope for more collaboration, love, trust, and support in our life. A hope because I am not alone. We are not alone.
And together, we’ll go far.
Designing for Wiser Action
Further resource: DfWA template