Session 7: April 4
Creating a container wherein people can risk
Creating the conditions for co-creativity, part one: being safe and BUILDING TRUST
Collective creative efforts require everyone to contribute their best questions, thinking and creative acts. If the conditions aren’t in place, people will not feel safe enough to risk and we’ll replicate the current status quo. In this class we explore ways of being that help people contribute their best and that keep people from feeling that they can. We explore the conditions necessary to create an atmosphere of psychological safety — the precondition for risk. And we learn about the behavior that engenders trust.
Lecture and activities
- Introductory lecture: Taking “together” seriously — a brief history of participatory design, its dilution and revival, and promising current trends
- Lecture: Creating the conditions for creativity, behavior that cultivates trust
- Alien Activity: Two different ways of seeing, relating and communicating — From control (oppression) to creative collaboration.
Key concepts
- Psychological safety
- Behaviors that build trust
- Conditions for group creativity
Required materials
In anticipation of our next session on communication when working together…
- Marshall Rosenberg, Chapters 1 and 2 of Nonviolent communication (Amazon link)
- Adam Kahane, Power and Love: TEDx talk
That one is short enough to assign on a tight deadline. But we actually prefer the 90-minute version here, with a great Q&A session at the end: The Ten Laws of Love and Power: Theory and practice of social change – MaRS Global Leadership
Homework
- Daily practice for week four: Stillness
- Supplementary reading: Ervin Laszlo, The dis-ease of the western mind
Optional materials
- Amy Edmonson, paper on psychological safety in teams
- Amy Edmonson’s TED talk, Building a psychologically safe workplace
- Brene Brown, Trust Works
See her online class, The anatomy of trust
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