Welcome
We began day two with a quick community news check-in. Here's the news:
- I bought a new house!!!
- I facilitated a meeting with a ninja check-in and circle. It worked and started the meeting off well.
- My volleyball team advanced to the finals!
Circle
"The circle is ancient and arguably in our DNA." -Tenneson
The circle is a way of listening together and a way of being smarter together. You can learn it in a half hour and you can practice it for a lifetime. It is a slower pace and requires a talking piece.
What we noticed after being in circle:
The circle is a way of listening together and a way of being smarter together. You can learn it in a half hour and you can practice it for a lifetime. It is a slower pace and requires a talking piece.
What we noticed after being in circle:
- A lot happens in a short time
- There is something so inviting about the opportunity to speak without interruption
- Felt strong sense of warmth and connection
- Definitely different
- Change of pace
- Awkward
- When you know you are going to get a chance to talk, you are less likely to interrupt
- Group size is a plus
- The room didn't get that loud
- People were really honest
- You can't interrupt
- The first round felt awkward with the talking piece, but got more comfortable as you go
Open Space
Open Space Calling Question: What are the issues and opportunities for us to thrive and flourish at Energy Trust?
Market Place Topics:
Market Place Topics:
- Energy Education with Kathleen
- Considerations to improve communication and relationship with PUC staff and members, Jed
- What's Energy Trust's role in demand response, storage, and transactive energy, Dave
- How do we support/encourage individual achievement in a collectivist culture? Kim
- Book and Food Club with Scott and Erin
- Records Retention Room into Fun Meeting and Break Space, Scott
- Why are forecasts and measures separate DB entities?
- Creating a closing for today, Kevin
- Opportunity to "onboard" new Executive Director to our culture, how to go about it, Hannah
- How can we better utilize data to identify E.E. opportunities (comm), Sam
- It was very educational on the bigger issues at Energy Trust
- Appreciated the opportunity to walk away when not engaged
- Appreciate the space for inspiration to arise
- Creating the container for trust
- Good gauge of what people have energy for NOW
- Blowing up a topic that goes across every sector (complex/changing environments)
- The topic could be useful on an annual basis or some other frequency
- The ability to get beyond the leadership team
- Breaks down power structures
- Sideways way to talk about conflict
- It's great for problems you don't know the answer to
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Knowledge Camp
The following knowledge camps were offered:
- Eight Breaths with Kevin
- Divergence and Convergence with Kevin
- Chaordic Stepping Stones with Tenneson
- Coffee Hour with Tenneson
- Visual Thinking with Jessica
- Harvest with Jessica
- What's Improv got to do with it? with Betsy
Checking Out: Reflection and Application
Our final circle was hosted by Robert who said:
"What resonates with you is the most important thing. There is not right answer to these questions, there just may be a better answer."
The closing questions for reflection were:
The final question read aloud to the circle by another participant was, "I am going to practice...?"
- What am I still curious about?
- It's ok for me to...
- What's your one 15% solution?
The final question read aloud to the circle by another participant was, "I am going to practice...?"
- Check In/Out questions as team builder and ice breaker
- Thoughtful meeting design
- Listening and waiting my turn to talk
- Daring to be simple
- Active listening
- Appreciation
- The visual design alphabet to make notes that are easier to harvest
- Interactions with colleagues that foster connections
- The Law of Two Feet
- Recognizing and valuing individuals to lead a safe and participatory framework in time
- Being present
- Mindful harvesting
- I'm going to practice being more present
- Harvest
- Mind mapping, icons, visual thinking
- Asking more questions
- Giving everyone a chance to speak at meetings
- Slowing down
- Being present
- Utilizing visual more to help me stay engaged and be organized
- Taking care to design the process to match the complexity of the problem
- Listening without the intent to respond or interject my opinion but to really hear what the other person is trying to say
- Patience with myself and others - in my communications and inner thoughts
- Going to my meetings without my iPhone to be fully #present
- Listening without planning what I'm going to say - just listening
- Practice
- Asking powerful questions
- Getting to know YOU
- Circle and Chaordic Stepping Stones
- More active participation in meetings
- Documenting visually and harvesting
- Listening to other ways to complete a (familiar) task
- Listen for complex and sit in a little chaos
