[Ailist] Help - Last Minute

[Nancy Goodman]

...you know, I'm not good at facilitating that type of thing at all.  I wonder if there's someone studying how different MBTI types do AI in practice...

Anyway, good thoughts Rob, whoever you are!  

I'm experimenting a lot with incorporating Joseph Campbell in to my AI thing.  Like, dream away, and how's this for a metaphor to play with--"we're all on the hero's journey."

Just a thought...like I said, it takes me a while to develop the actual exercise...

Nancy

VOCATUS
Nancy Goodman, LPC, NCC
Appreciative Inquiry facilitator
845 West Center, Suite 306
Pocatello, Idaho     83204
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"You have to let go of the life you've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for you." --Joseph Campbell

"Don't Panic."--The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Vocatus," meaning "Called," is the Latin root origin of such words as vocation and evoke.  What calls you?  




--- On Tue, 2/24/09, Rob Voyle <robvoyle at voyle.com> wrote:
From: Rob Voyle <robvoyle at voyle.com>
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Help - Last Minute
To: "Mike Sands" <msands at dccnet.com>, ailist at lists.business.utah.edu
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 12:23 PM

Hi Mike

a thought of Dreams: Have you ever stopped to ponder that you are going to 
spend the rest of your life in the future? Since that is true lets make it a
future 
that you and I would prefer to live in.

For Dream work I like to use guided imagery (not guided visualization which is 
just a subset of imagery) as a precursor to drawing or other artistic
expression.

You can find a script I use for Church organizations at:
http://www.clergyleadership.com/ai-resources/Imagine-a-church.pdf

I have adapted it also for business by changing the language and also for work 
with the individuals.

Here is a quick way to get people to think about imagination:

Q: Who in your organization has the biggest imagination...?

A: The biggest worrier.  

For worry is pure imagination, possibly a misuse of imagination but it is still

imagination. I wonder what would happen if we took the piece of machinery 
people wory with and got them to use it to imagine a future they would like to 
live in and the steps they would need to take to achieve it. Much better than 
using their imagination to work on why they can't have the future they
desire.

Blessings on your session.

Rob
  
Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D.
Director, Clergy Leadership Institute
For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry
Author: Core Elements of the Appreciative Way 
http://www.clergyleadership.com/
503-647-2378 or 503-647-2382  


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