Week #6-- Do Only What You Love; Love What You Do

We hope you are having fun with this Live-With and will post your experiences below. Please also share your thoughts about matching how you spend your time with your values and goals. Go for progress, not perfection...
Have a great week.
Hal

Share Your Challenge

If you would like, you can share your challenge for the class here. It can be helpful to share your goal/challenge/intention with others, because it can make it more real and powerful.

If you do want feedback/advice, make it clear so others know you are asking for it; if you don't, say that, too, so others honor that.

Week #5-- Leadership & IDEO

We covered a lot of material about leadership and we encourage you to share any reactions or questions that were stimulated.

Further, after reading the IDEO case, you can share some ideas and comments about this company in advance of the class. Why is it successful? What are some of the concepts that might be useful for YOU in your own organization? How easily can other design firms "copy" its methodologies? Would you like to work there?

Week #4-- Ask Dumb Questions

Please share your experiences as you work with dumb or penetrating questions.

Let us know about your feelings as you frame the questions-- for example, what is the role of the VOJ? How about the reaction? Did you get your answer and maybe more?

You can even try questions with strangers-- so long as you genuinely want to know the answer. Many of us REALLY like to share of knowledge if someone asks and is interested...

What have you found?

Week #3 - CoolBurst

We touched on our CoolBurst case study in Monday's class, with three excellent presentations that covered the case. If you haven't done so, read the case study, then see what the 'expert' in you thinks Luisa should do.

Please share with us here any questions, thoughts, etc. that will help us all to get more out of this interesting case study.

Next Monday, we'll discuss the case more, and delve into the management side of things.

Week #3 - Precise Observation: Pay Attention!

So, now you are in week three of our class and, we imagine, getting the hang of these live-withs. You've had time to experiment with Have No Expectations and Psych(e) Out Your VOJ. Our new live-with, Pay Attention, builds on these first two.

You are becoming familiar with your own creative process and with your VOJ, and when you have a deeper awareness of both, you begin to be more open to the world around you, and the world inside you. This week, we invite you to pay attention to both worlds.

Listen, see, taste, touch and smell with precise observation, as a young child filled with wonder, a scientist absorbed in research, or an alien who has just landed on earth and is seeing things for the first time.

Shake things up! Travel a different route, eat different foods, talk with strangers - do anything you can to have a foreign experience, as if you are a traveller in a new world, because in reality you are. In every moment, life is changing right before your eyes.

So, get out there, and in there, and Pay Attention. Then come back here to fill us in on all the wonder-filled moments you have experienced and how those experiences have affected your Self and your VOJ.

Resources: Articles, links, etc. from class

This is a collecting place for articles, links, poetry, etc. that we share in class.

Class 2: Fast Company Magazine, October 2008, Next: Rewiring the Creative Mind
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/129/rewiring-the-creative-mind.html

Week #2 - Ideas of Leadership Style and 7-S Model

We also shared with you the Ideas of Leadership Style and the 7-S Model. As we did in class, continue to notice what leadership style your boss/parent uses, its effectiveness, and what might combination of styles might work better. As a leader yourself, consider what your natural styles are and how they support your own internal values.

Also, take a look at the 7-S Model and how your organizations fares.

Please post here any experiences, thoughts, questions or reflections.

Week #2 - Absence of Judgment | Psych(e) out the VOJ

So, here we go! This week's live with, Psych(e) out the VOJ provides an entirely different way to see yourself, others and the world around you. As we stated in class, there are two main parts to thsi live-with: 1) develop an awareness of your VOJ (it's just as unique as your creative process), and 2) practice with ways to psych(e) it out, so you begin to choose from your Essence and its natural creative potential rather than from the conditioned response of the VOJ.

Enjoy yourselves. Make sure to capture your insights as they happen, or so afterwards, so you can deepen your learnings. Of course, we love to read about what's happening out there with everyone, so please post on the blog. If something comes up that is deeply personal and you would rather not share here, please email either one of us, or both.

Have a great week!