May 2017 ~ U.Lab Lambeth

Sunday, 7 May 2017

Session 2 Co-sensing (Wednesday 10 May 2017)

Link to today's presentation HERE What today’s session is about Empathy - learning to deep listen to other people Reflection - allows participants to reflect more deeply and identify concrete intuitive insights Levels of conversation - how listening can be different things Coaching...

Link to today's presentation HERE

What today’s session is about

Empathy - learning to deep listen to other people
Reflection - allows participants to reflect more deeply and identify concrete intuitive insights
Levels of conversation - how listening can be different things
Coaching circles - how to coach one another as a group

What we will have done by the end of the session

Paired up and done an Empathy Walk
Done some Reflective Journaling on food
Debriefed on journaling and the empathy walk
Learnt about the Four Levels of Conversation
Had an introduction to coaching circles
Practiced coaching circles

Activity 1 - The Empathy Walk

Please could you:

Pair up with someone you don’t know
Read the handout (PDF)
Spend around 20 minutes doing the exercise

Activity 2 - Reflective Journaling

One Guided journaling leads participants through a self-reflective process. This practice allows participants to access deeper levels of self-knowledge, and to connect this knowledge to concrete actions. It's a personal exercise, rooted in honesty. There is never a requirement to share what you journal.

You can get more information on reflective journaling here.

Lesson: Co-sensing and Levels of Listening

Co-sensing is the early part of the 'U' where the ideas of observing and deep listening are key. You can see a short video about it here.

One of the main ideas about U.Lab is that we slip into old patterns of doing things. And as a result, the solutions we come up with up with run the risk of not properly addressing the problem they want to fix. How we diagnose the problem is a big part of that, We all know how to listen: we do it every day. But listening is a skill. Deep listening is something most of us are poor at if we don't practice. So the point here is to think about listening as, at its deepest, a process of empathy, connection and a shift to something new in the future. There's a great video on levels of listening here. You can also see a concise summary of Theory U here.

Activity 3: Listening Conversations

Think of that conversation you had in the last week around food:

What level were you operating at?
What level would you like to be at?
What benefit would that bring?

Activity 4: Coaching Circles

Coaching circles are probably the single most effective method in U.Lab for moving from concept to practice. The backbone of coaching circles is a process we call case clinics.

To practice a case clinic we need 3 roles filled:

Casegiver: The casegiver shares their personal aspiration and leadership challenge that is current, concrete, important
Coaches: Coaches listen deeply - they do not try to “fix” the problem, no matter how tempting it seems
Timekeeper: one of the coaches manages the time

You can get detailed instructions on how to run a case clinic here. There is also a longish video on it here.

Activity 5 - Check out

Well done everyone!

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Session 2 Co-sensing (Wednesday 10 May 2017)

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