Transcript COMMUNITY AND COMMUNICATION

COMMUNITY
AND
COMMUNICATION
IN
CREATIVE
LEADERSHIP
FOUR PILLARS OF COMMUNITY
Each human being is unique.
All human beings are the same.
No human being is a category.
Human beings can engage
creatively with each other.
DIVERSITY AMONG
HUMAN BEINGS
IS A
FOUNDATION OF CREATIVITY
OUR
COMMON HUMANITY
IS A
FOUNDATION OF PEACE
Beginning With A Question
How can we be truly humane and
creative with each other as we work
through the difficult issues
and challenges we face today?
CONSCIOUS
MEANINGFUL
RESPONSIBLE
PARTICIPATION
OPEN TO LEARNING
The real voyage of discovery
consists not of finding new lands
but of seeing the territory
with new eyes
Marcel Proust
Only with the support, insight,
and fellowship of community
can we face the dangers of
learning meaningful things.
Fred Kofman & Peter Senge
TO DO CREATIVE
COMMUNICATION
WE NEED A COHERENT VISION
AND A WILLINGNESS
TO EXPLORE THAT VISION
OPENLY
WITH A MUTUAL
SENSE OF COMMUNITY
William Isaacs
Finding a Vision “in Community”
What would people be like within
and with others
in a best-of-all-possible worlds?
Not a utopia, a perfect, ideal,
impossible world – no place.
But a real, everyday world.
QUALITIES OF CHARACTER
in Community
Living Together
with Respect
Personal Freedom
with Responsibility
GENUINE INTEREST
“Understanding”
Others
Self-understanding
COMMUNITY
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Appreciation
of Others
Appreciation
of Self
EMPATHOS
Empathy
Openness
Honesty
COMMUNITY
ALTRUISM
Caring
Support
Selfactualization
MUTUAL
TRUST
Trust
of Others
Trust
of Self
COMMUNITY
CREATIVE
COMMUNICATION
SENSE
OF
ONENESS
DOMINATION TO PARTNERSHIP
I bet
Genuine Interest
I wonder
I judge
Acknowledgment
I learn
I pity
Empathos
I sense/feel
DOMINATION TO PARTNERSHIP
I want
Can I trust
you?
Altruism
I/we need
Trust
Can I trust
myself?
DOMINATION TO PARTNERSHIP
I know
I’m lonely
Creative
I mean
Communication
Sense of
Oneness
I’m alone
The most savage controversies are
those about matters as to which
there is no good evidence either
way.
Bertrand Russell
THE S  R MODEL
OF COMMUNICATION
Goal:
To resolve an issue
To solve a problem
To answer a question
Objective:
To understand each other
Focus:
Thoughts in the form of
opinions, conclusions
generalizations, etc.
Process:
Debate, argument, etc.
Outcome
An Agreement
CREATIVE
COMMUNICATION
Goal:
To be creative within and with
each other
Purpose:
To be responsible and to
respect each other as
human beings
Objective:
To become familiar with
each other
Focus:
Living Meaning
Process:
Clear Expression
Deep Listening
MAKING DECISIONS
Goal:
To find places of meaning we
feel good about
Objective:
To search for, discover, and
explore meaning together
(to find emergent meaning)
Focus:
Living Meaning
Process:
Clear Expression
Deep Listening
Outcome:
Agreements to “act as if”
for a while . . .
Living Meaning
Something that happened
An experience
Something you saw, heard, read
Thinking, Feeling, Intuition
Imagination, Insight
Out beyond ideas of
wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field.
I will meet you there.
Rumi