Brief Hybrid Workshop: Steve Gilbert's 2007
Annual Thanksgiving
Message
"Personally
Happy and Publicly Useful"
Compassionate Pioneers and Compassionate Pioneering
Introduction to Ursula Franklin:
Obstinate Optimism, Search for
Balance
Purpose of this Brief Hybrid
Workshop: Express thanks,
recognize Ursula Franklin's
wisdom, and encourage others to engage in acts
of "Compassionate
Pioneering."
[Thanks to Tom Carey
for giving me my first copy of the Ursula
Franklin Reader!] |
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Guidelines
for Leader/Facilitators & Participants
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Everyone: Buy, Read
If time and budget permit, buy and read some
of Ursula
Franklin's writings before leading or
participating in this workshop. If you
cannot, don't worry about it.
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Leader: Interview
Questions
Print & duplicate in advance the
2-page PDF document. Distribute it
before playing the eClip. Give
participants time to read it quickly.
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Leader: eClips -
Watch, Listen, Think
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Ask participants to watch/listen to
the first eClip ("Personally Happy &
Publicly Useful" - 6
minutes) as you play it.
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Ask them to think quietly for
one minute about how well/poorly Ursula
Franklin's description of "Personally Happy
and Publicly Useful" fits Compassionate
Pioneers.
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Ask participants to
watch/listen to the second eClip
("Compassionate Pioneers & Compassionate
Pioneering" - 4+ minutes) as you play it.
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Ask them to think quietly for 1 or 2
minutes about the 3 discussion questions.
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Everyone: Small
Group Discussion
Leader asks participants to discuss their
answers in small groups (2-5 people) per
group; 3 to 10 minutes).
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Leader: Reports
Ask representatives from a few of the groups
to share some of the results of their
discussions (esp., descriptions of acts of
Compassionate Pioneering that they believe
could be done by everyone within their group
within the next few weeks).
Leader/facilitators can make this workshop
their own by the ways in which they:
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Invite and prepare
participants
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Engage participants in
follow-up activities
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Modify the suggested
activities and the materials provided
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Recognize and reward
individuals who emerge as Compassionate
Pioneers and those who - occasionally but
significantly - engage in acts of
Compassionate Pioneering.
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Discussion
Questions
Intended to elicit names of Compassionate Pioneers,
especially the "unsung heroes" and descriptions
of acts of Compassionate Pioneering that are
both worthy of our emulation and within our
capabilities – for most of us.
Compassionate Pioneers are those who not only
reach beyond their own limits and lead the way
in developing or trying new options, but who
also encourage and help their colleagues to take
the same path.
1. Who are one or two
people you can easily identify as
obvious "Compassionate Pioneers"?
2. Who are one or two less
obvious ("unsung
heroes") who occasionally act like Compassionate
Pioneers?
3.
What are one or two exemplary activities of
"Compassionate Pioneering" done by
unsung heroes?
Recording Option
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eClip(s)
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Accessibility
(Disabilities) Options
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Other Resources
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Future
Activities, Additional Resources
Follow-Up, Go Further, Go Deeper |
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Specific Next Steps
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Volunteer to be interviewed about acts of
Compassionate Pioneering you have seen and
recommend.
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Read
more of Ursula Franklin's writings.
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Plan
with one or two people in this workshop how
you will do one of the acts of Compassionate
Pioneering identified. Set a target
deadline. Agree to notify each other
within a week of that date about how well
you have been able to accomplish what you
intend - and why or why not!
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Record your
answers to Discussion Questions - <Needs to
be updated; 20111124>
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Feedback Options
Minimum: Provide 3X5
cards (or online equivalent - Google Doc?) and
ask each participant to write descriptions of 1
part of this session that was useful and 1 part
of this session that could be improved or
eliminated. Can be done anonymously or
not. Collect the cards and use them to
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Additional Recommended
Resources
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THE URSULA FRANKLIN READER: Pacifism As a
Map,
Ursula Franklin,
Introduction by Michelle Swenarchuk, Between
the Lines Press, October 31, 2006
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"Tempered Radicals"
Excerpts and Links to Tempered Radicals: How People Use
Difference to Inspire Change at Work by Debra E.
Meyerson, Harvard Business School Press, June 19, 2003.
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Help!
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Contact Info
Steven W. Gilbert, President,
the TLT Group, 301 270 8312,
gilbert@tltgroup.org
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