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3.6 | What did you learn from discussing these insights with your team?
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It was a real moment with my manager to drop our guards and be real with each other. As a result, I feel more connected to each other as human beings, which creates a psychologically safe environment. This ripples through to the rest of the team and how I show up for others outside my immediate team as well.
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At this point, what I’ve noticed in our team five (5) wisdom circles is how quickly five people who are essentially strangers can come together and experience what I see as genuine empathy, curiosity, bravery and interpersonal warmth. I have only cursory insight into any of my team member’s actual day-to-day reality, and it doesn’t matter. By employing the practices the larger group has reviewed over the past few months, we’ve been able to create a space for each other that feels to me to be truly welcoming. We’re all heard.
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My work isn’t all of that safe of a space to leverage the insights we learned from the class. There are people here and there but not many. Ironically (or not) it is easier to do this (running effective meetings, mindful listening, etc.) with my clients than with my colleagues. Our wisdom circles have been very fruitful places to discuss these topics though sometimes we don’t and focus on the personal as we did during the last one.
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My “work” team are MA students and I’ve yet to discuss these insights with them because it is not a part of the curriculum, however I’ve used the strategies to help me be more authentic with my students. My Wisdom Circle team has provided a safe place to review mindfulness concepts taught by Nikki and Marc. I’ve purchased Marc’s book so I can see how I can best weave in these strategies into the discussions I have with students.
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We talked about the seven practices of effective a mindful leader. We thought is was a really helpful piece of writing, and talked about being so glad that we read it! We talked about the need to depend on others more, and the fact that a dedicated practice does wonders. One person from the group (who is a more experienced meditator) shared some helpful tips on how to be more consistent with a daily meditation practice. We had a great meeting. It covered lots of topics related to the homework.
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I haven’t discussed with my team yet but may in the new year.
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We did a wisdom circle and didn’t discuss team effectiveness.
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Our team session was focused on Wisdom Circle. Again there was a strong sense of how powerful the process was both as the person with the issue and the rest of the circle and also how helpful it was to share and seek the feedback of others (a great example of depending on others). We also discussed how strong the modelling of Mindful Leadership has been amongst the course leaders and how powerful this leading by example is, so thank you!
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We chose to do a Wisdom Circle instead which was helpful and connecting as always!
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As usual these wisdom circles & discussions alleviate so much worry in me as I see my problems in my organization are not direct results of a personal failing or the organization, but remnants of old ways we’ve learned to do things, common fears & and insecurities and so much more that many of my team were able to commiserate with. No matter the type of organization or the subject of work, if we start implementing these more mindful practices that cut at the core issues we often face (miscommunication, intent vs impact, control, etc) it’s likely we’d be able to navigate through these issues in any area we transferred to as leaders. Encouraging!
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While talking and listening with the team, I learned that we all share in the same values for compassion.
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In higher education, there can sometimes be an aversion to things that are “spiritual” or not based on intellect. I notice that framing these insights in supporting students and being more “effective” promotes more dialogue rather than debate. Articulating these insights, even more than the content, has helped me balance my own values with meeting the needs of my team.
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I always circle back to the connection and common humanity we share which resonates so strongly as we speak in circles.
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My group didnt have a Wisdom circle meeting in this month, so that was not discussed in our small MLT team.
Little by little I plan to introduce the insights of Difficult Conversations into my coaching group of newly graduated veterinarians as, I could be wrong, but it sounds like most of their training in this area consists of inuring themselves to people (actors employed by the colleges to behave in certain ways) yelling at them. It different when it is your case, and your decision-making. Then, it becomes very personal, and it is very hard to stay grounded, listen mindfully, and allow space. -
That there is often a lag between this course and mindfulness practice and my work realities. Some meetings others at my work have had a hard time changing. However, I used the mindfulness practices (from the wisdom circle) when participating at these work meetings, and this made the atmosphere calmer and more productive. I also feel more present and less reactive and tired afterwards than before.
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