In Process Coaching
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Critical Business School
One Year of Workshops
Starting in September, we will meet weekly for four three-month workshops. We will discuss the different aspects of starting a meta-community and lead the way to making it happen, including creating invitation copy, articulating its value, identifying the people we want to enroll, and more.
- Prompts
- Living ideas
- Containers
- Meta-community (read more)
Meets weekly
Monday, 1 EST
$500 a month
Prompt Workshop
A prompt is a question that is impossible to collaborate on. It points inward, asks for language, and leads to self-knowledge.
For example: what bores you?
Different people would have other answers, and we can’t collaborate on what bores each person, only to ask why (and engage through meaning).
Briefs always lead to collaboration (with another person or knowledge). They are anchored in gravity (the situation) and point to convergence.
For example, what is the secret of a work-life balance?
Experts will approach this from different angles, but the conversation must lead to a meeting on everyone’s direct opinion.
Through [Thirdness, Critical Business School, and Being in Space, I have been developing prompts as a way to bring people into meta conversations and generative discourse spaces.
The scale between prompts and briefs helps start and navigate creative contexts, especially with the growing importance of AI and language models.
FAQ:What are some examples of prompts?
- What bores you?
- Do you see something no one else does?
- What do you wish you could measure?
- Education
- Developing spaces for new/unexpected conversations
- change management
- work culture
- on-boarding
- Facilitating communities
- Coaching
- Interview Questions
- Prepping for an interview
- Conducting one
- HR operations
- Personal growth
Living Ideas
How do you describe a frame without drawing a picture?
The prompt workshop left behind a realization: it is necessary to prompt oneself when asking for creativity from others. Prompting is a subset of questions that frame/reframe and act on the energy from pulling on interests. It is a unique form of communication that shares meaning before anchoring it in stories.
These creative ruminations are personally meaningful but still need to be clarified. They are malleable and open to interpretation. Carrying them along requires a particular container. The Living Ideas workshop is one such container. Participants will write practices to articulate and develop ideas that grow in meaning as they grow in scope.
Who could benefit from articulating living ideas?
- Coaches and facilitators who don’t prescribe their spaces
- Innovation writers looking for new tools to describe a non-existent future
- Change agents looking to inspire and individuate their ideas
- Writers looking to move away from productizing themselves
Containers
How can we build a space for living meaning (/creativity) together?
Most spaces (communities, collaboration rooms, Slacks) operate on an invisible contract of transactionality. A community, for example, has a goal (/culture fit). Its members introduce themselves and exchange respective utility until outcomes.
The opportunity that should be taken is to be creative together.
When we think of a new idea (/are creative), we cannot be clear. We don’t know what we want to say or where our thoughts would lead. These frequent moments ask for open-ended affordances. We need to be allowed to pause in a space without a ticking to-do list.
Interpersonally, we can’t be transactional while being creative. We need to hold space for creativity. And use the energy that ‘creative confusion’ allows.
I experimented with a few such containers. Thirdness was a paid members community where a weekly prompt allowed discourse in what I call band practice for solo artists. Critical Business School was a series of monthly workshops (between Aeon and Harvard Business School) where members meet for four 1-hour-long sessions, in prompts and discourse, but no introductions until the last 10 minutes of the final session. The most recent container is On creativity. A book that will never be published, which I am writing as a body of ideas the community can discuss and build on.
The goal of a container is to tend to the air (/energy) between the members, as opposed to program what is said or done, where we can decide if we want to ‘add another log to the fire’ or ’open a window.
I recommend this workshop for community builders, innovation consultants, managers, and coaches. It’s a valuable opportunity to enhance your skills and knowledge in fostering creativity and collaboration in your professional sphere.