5/20/2014 Sound leadership: Community, curriculum and conversation Mike Askew AP Conference, Singapore 7 May 2014 1
5/20/2014 A warm greeting An icy stare The heat of The cold shoulder attraction Language as conduit metaphor Words are OBJECTS Communication is SENDING 2
5/20/2014 Teaching and learning metaphors • Teaching as delivery • Teaching as journey • Learning as discovery • Learning as constructing Embodied cognition Wilson (2002) suggests that there are at least six different views of embodied cognition, one of which is that ‘off-line’ cognition is body based. “Human cognition, rather than being centralized, abstract, and sharply distinct from peripheral input and output modules, may instead have deep roots in sensorimotor processing.” 3
5/20/2014 Strong embodiment “One of the great findings of cognitive science is that our ideas are shaped by our bodily experiences–not in any simpleminded one-to-one way but indirectly, through the grounding of our entire conceptual system in everyday life” Lakoff & Núñez, 2000 Conference Confer: “To bring together, compare, consult, deliberate, talk over.’ 4
5/20/2014 Leadership metaphors How do you talk about what do leaders do? What metaphors do you use? Turn and talk (3 minutes) 5
5/20/2014 Goals • Goal post image Goals Targets Targets • IMage 6
5/20/2014 On track On track Logic of If - then If – Then 7
5/20/2014 Engineered Quantifiable Predictable Controllable Clockw ise 8
5/20/2014 It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. despair. It's the hope I can't stand. Emergent Emergent Meanings Values Relationships 9
5/20/2014 Organic Organic Grow ing self, grow ing others, grow ing community 10
5/20/2014 Conditions for emergence • Diversity • Redundancy • Enabling constraints • Neighbour interactions • Distributed control Shift from a focus on things to a focus on relationships 11
5/20/2014 Relational leadership • Inclusive • Empowering • Purposeful • Ethical • Process-oriented Vision Vision 12
5/20/2014 Metaphors • Visual metaphors divide and exclude • Auditory metaphors are inclusive Discussion Discus: to throw 13
5/20/2014 Discussion • David Bohm likened discussion to throwing opinions back and forth in an attempt to convince each other of the rightness of a particular position. Thus the whole view is often fragmented and shattered into many pieces. Dialogue – “dia” and “logos” “through meaning” 14
5/20/2014 Dialogue requires us to "hold our positions more lightly”. – David Bohm 15
5/20/2014 Listening Listening is ‘fundamentally about being in relationship to another and through this relationship supporting change or transformation.’ – Katherine Shultz 16
5/20/2014 “ It is impossible to know reality for the same reason that makes it impossible to sing potatoes; they may be grown, or pulled, or eaten, but not sung. Reality has to be ‘ been ’ : there should be a transitive verb ‘ to be ’ expressly for use with the term ‘ reality ’ . ” Bion (1965/1983) Transformations Is there a leadership ‘gym’? 17
5/20/2014 Improv Structure Freedom 18
5/20/2014 Control and certainty ‘Relies on … “or” thinking. This built in logic, … divides everything sharply into two classes: good or bad, right or wrong, one of us or one of them. Such logic tends to disregard a method like improvisation– certain, rational knowledge is what counts, ergo any method that does not produce it is useless.’ Improvisation ‘is based on “and” thinking. The practices encourage you to notice, accept and work with what is already there, not to evaluate or block it. Thus improvisational practice is itself a ‘yes and …’ It accepts and adds to what you already know, rather than replacing it; it is a complement, not an alternative.’ 19
5/20/2014 Make your partner look good One word at a time story 20
5/20/2014 Reflect • How do you feel? • What happened? • What did you learn? • How does this relate to the real world? ‘Being present, w hether w ith children, w ith friends, or even w ith oneself, is alw ays hard work. But isn’t this attentiveness – the feeling that someone is trying to think about us – something w e w ant more than praise?’ - Stephen Grosz 21
5/20/2014 Everything is an offer Yes, but 22
5/20/2014 Yes, and Reflect • How do you feel? • What happened? • What did you learn? • How does this relate to the real world? 23
5/20/2014 The most precious gift w e can offer is our presence. – Thich Nhat Hanh Picture credits • All photographs used under creative commons license and downloaded from www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ • Taps: Karen • Percussion: Let ideas compete • Target: vizzzual.com • Goal: Swen_Peter Ekkebus • Vision: Joe Dyndale • Billiards: Usodesina • Cogs: Arthur John Picton • Garden: UKGardenphotos • Choir: Andrew Magill • Conversation: Cliff 24
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