610+Town+Hall+notes

=**610 2009: Notes from Jouvence**=

**FRIDAY**

 * World Cafe style meet & greet with 2010 cohort
 * Ask questions related to each table topic
 * Choose a mentor based on mystery profiles on the walls
 * Informal conversation and mingling

**SATURDAY**

 * SMG Fishbowls
 * 2 questions each SMG.
 * Staff called SMG #3 into the fishbowl first.
 * First person to speak (voluntarily) points in the direction of the next person to speak. Each person speaks in turn in the order of the circle
 * Tone of questions from Jim was very grave: "What experience, insight or awareness am I most appreciative of in my SMG?" and "Where do I feel most hung up or concerned about what I experienced in my SMG?"
 * Group #3 Staff intervention comments: "What would happen if this group threw caution to the wind?" and "What would it be like if you dropped your hands and looked each other in the eye?" and "Go for a hike together."
 * Group #2 Staff interventions
 * Group #1 Staff interventions
 * Tone went from excited and curious to grave, serious and introspective

**SUNDAY**

 * Partner exercise: look into each other's eyes
 * "I am aware of..."
 * "I am happy when... I feel most alive when..."
 * "I feel least alive when... I feel depleted when..."
 * "To make the most of my experience here at Jouvence I need to..."

**MONDAY**

 * Staff conversation/staff fishbowl
 * "What would they do if they were us"

**TUESDAY**

 * Project group report
 * Gibb's theory of Trust Development

Tracey's staff fishbowl notes
 Dominant model: personal dominance, bureaucracy, patriarchy Emerging model: democratic, leaderless, participative

One can’t decree particip ation.
 * Self-managing groups only work when groups take responsibility to create it.**

Acknowledge the: Behaviours noticed:
 * Assumptions
 * Environment
 * I want to discuss…
 * Faked
 * Tentative
 * Painful emotions: insecurity, worries about being good enough
 * Unskilled: it’s new


 * Rich fantasy world about your thinking
 * It’s difficult to take risks: right/wrong, correct/incorrect
 * What prevents me from taking risks?
 * It’s precious to be with people exeriencing this new behaviour, this new way.
 * Can we just have respect even amidst styles that are oil and water?
 * Experiencing only in my heaad denies the experience of the heart. I don’t even know what my heart experiences are.
 * Complexity is prevalent in new self-managed groups.
 * Task only is linear and doesn’t makes psace for reflecting on process.
 * How much of me do I need to show? How transparent do I need to be?
 * Dominant fears: about self, about task, about relationships for future work with these people.
 * Will they forgive me for not being perfect?
 * How far do I go in self-reflection? As far as the task is concerned?
 * What helps task accomplishment in task groups?
 * Not ability to give & receive feedback: focus on SELF.
 * Process is what involves / interferes / supports TASK accomplishment. Not "Anne, are you ok?“ but asking to be in support of the task. Suspend business in support of the task.
 * Growing points and concerns @ work = personal contribution: discussion.
 * Balance between personal learning goals and task accomplishment.

**WEDNESDAY**

 * SMGs present their 6 strategies to the cohort and distill them down into the essentials

**THURSDAY**

 * Party!