[Ailist] Help - Last Minute

[Mike Sands]

Nancy

Hero's Journey - is extraordinarily apt - it is how I feel - even me.

Have you ever led a group of people through this kind of process - as I 
write that I wonder what you'd call it - dream thinking, creative thinking, 
non verbal thinking.

I wonder if  somebody has written a book about the process and how to 
introduce it and induce it - If they have I wonder what name they would give 
the book and/or what category would it come under in a library catalogue.

There are some  observations in PRESENCE, by Senge, Sharmer, Jawaorski and 
Flowers that parallel the ideas.

Ideas of non verbal thinking, improv aided thinking seem closely related.

I am sure many books on AI have chapters on the ideas

So still I wonder if anybody has really explored it.

And again - have you ever led the process - what did you do?

Mike



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Goodman" <goodnanc at yahoo.com>
To: "Mike Sands" <msands at dccnet.com>; <ailist at lists.business.utah.edu>; "Rob 
Voyle" <robvoyle at voyle.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Ailist] Help - Last Minute


...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
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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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