How listening can change everything
Group listening with collective story harvest
"Listening is an incredibly calibrating way of getting into alignment with what's really going on. It gets us out of the story about what life is like that we're married to in our heads. And that story goes from individuals to the system. This organization was living in a story that was not accurate. We can't touch reality. We can't shift reality. So how do we get our fingers on what is really happening?"
How listening without judgment shifted strategy
Use the player and transcript below to listen to a story from a project in which a “Collective Story Harvest” transformed the creative intent for the advocacy campaigns of a national nonprofit. In this audio, Fit principals Marc Rettig and Hanna du Plessis tell the story and offer insights on the transforming power of listening.
Mentioned in this conversation…
Otto Scharmer, Levels of listening
Power and love
Father Paul Abernathy
Felicia Savage Friedman
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First steps in hosting conversations that matter
Marc: You start to feel more at home. Saying "Let's do this different thing" to a group of people is scary at first. But it becomes not scary. And it's what's needed in the world: to break those old patterns.
Hanna: Break patterns, and also switch us on. We are talking heads. Our beings need to be resuscitated. We need to learn to be embodied again. To think with our fingers, to laugh with our bellies, to move with our feet. There's an organization called "Re-becoming human" I feel like that's the core of what is happening as we do this work.
What is it like when we first begin hosting conversations that matter?
Use the player and transcript below to listen to conversation and stories about the tender experience of beginning to host (we prefer “host” to “facilitate”) gatherings that shift a group’s relationships and stories. In this audio originally recorded for the Adaptive Space Learning Group, Fit principals Marc Rettig and Hanna du Plessis offer thoughts to those setting out on their journey.
Mentioned in this conversation…
Adam Kahane
Applied improv
Chris Corrigan
Liberating structures
Re-becoming human
Theater of the oppressed
Theory U
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