SELF

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SELF CHANGE
CHANGE

Neil Smith, Ph.D. smithneil_at_shaw.ca
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Ron Heifetz Marty Linksky

• Reference
• Article on Day One HANDOUTS

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• Change comes in many sizes and forms

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1989 Tianamen Square
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• Lesson 5 Be flexible, and vigilant We
  dont always choose the waves

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Cjhange
What are the Forces that advance
Educational Change?
What are the Forces that block Educational
Change?
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Forces.

• Reflective Action VS. Passive
  Deflection
• Appreciative Inquiry VS Depreciative
  Dogma
• Grounded Vision VS. Amorphous Goals
• Authentic Engagement VS. Detachment
• Adaptive Confidence VS. Frozen Insecurity

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Personal Vision
Forces that advance Personal Vision
Forces that block Personal Vision
Reflective Action
Passive Deflection
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SELF - EFFICACY
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Ultra Reflective. Stagnant Inactive
So Active Energetic Mindless Unreflective
Practises Reflective Action
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Reflective Action
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Personal Vision
Forces that advance Personal Vision
Forces that block Personal Vision
Appreciative Inquiry
Deprecative Dogmatising
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Could AI be just another educational Hammer In
search of a nail ?
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AI - an world view based on optimism

• If we are going to bring out the human potential
  at its best, we must first believe in its
  existence and its presence.
• Victor Frankl 1905-1997
• Mans Search for Meaning

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Peter Drucker in an interview with Frank Barrett
on his book The Next Society

• The task of leadership is to create an alignment
  of strengths, making our weaknesses irrelevant.

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Appreciative Inquiry
Problem Solving
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To.Appreciative Inquiry

• Asking questions that
• guide new conversations
• help people discover create and build tangible
  images
• with positive expectations for the future

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Appreciative Generative Inquiry
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4 KEY STAGES of AI

• DISCOVERY - find the conditions of optimal
  function - the best
  experiences events
• DREAM - develop images of possible
  futures
• DESIGN - define principles initial strategic
  plans
• DESTINY - work toward the preferred future

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Our Friday Evening Session.. Example of AI
Questions and Dialogue
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Dialogue is

• Consciously generating respect for yourself and
  others

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Dialogue is

• Seeking understanding, not
• necessarily agreement,
• with opposing
• perspectives

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Dialogue is

• Listening deeply

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Dialogue is
Suspending your certainties and assumptions
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Dialogue is
Cultivating your own voice
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Optimistic PositiveUnrealistic Naive
So Analytic, Pessimistic Destructive
ConstructiveAnalytic
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Appreciative / Generative Inquiry
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Personal Vision
Forces that advance Personal Vision
Forces that block Personal Vision
Grounded Vision
Entropy
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GROUNDED VISION
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Power of language and image

• Language and image describe reality
• Ill believe it when I see it..
• Or.
• Language and image create reality
  Ill see it when I believe it

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Clear Vision Goals Energy
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Presentism / PastVisionless w.out Hope
Practises Grounded Vision
Visionary but Deluded
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Grounded Vision
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Personal Vision
Forces that advance Personal Vision
Forces that block Personal Vision
Authentic Engagement
Social Emotional Detachment
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Authentic Engagement
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ANCHORING VISION IN SOLID VALUES
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Principled but withdrawn
Principled Engaged
Active Engaged butUnprincipled Compromised
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Authentic Engagement
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Personal Vision
Forces that advance Grounded Vision
Forces that block Grounded Vision
Frozen Insecurity
Adaptive Confidence
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Adaptive Confidence
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Power of Learning to Build Adaptive Confidence
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Uncertain, overly adaptive
Adaptive Confident
Confident but rigid, inflexible
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Adaptive Confidence
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CHANGE
Forces that advance Personal Vision
Forces that block Personal Vision
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• Reflective Action VS. Passive
  Deflection
• Appreciative Inquiry VS Depreciative
  Dogma
• Grounded Vision VS. Amorphous Goals
• Authentic Engagement VS. Detachment
• Adaptive Confidence VS. Frozen Insecurity

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