Creating Space http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/ Creating Space is the National Meeting of the Leadership Learning Community. This year's theme was Working Together: Exploring the Collective Nature of Leadership. en http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/feedlogo.gif PBwiki http://pbwiki.com/ PBwiki 3.7 support@pbwiki.com FrontPage http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/FrontPage email.hidden@example.com (Elissa) Elissa edited FrontPage Our most recent gathering, Creating Space VIII – Working Together: Exploring the Collective Nature of Leadership, took place April 11-13, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Past Creating Space Gatherings
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Working Together: Exploring the Collective Nature of Leadership
Agenda
The Questions
"Collective Notes" From the Cafe Tables
Synthesis of Cafe Table Notes
10:00 – 10:15 AM Gallery Walk
10:15 – 10:45 AM Large Group Meaning Making
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archived here: Community here:Community Contribution Sessions, Open Space Sessions and Learning Circle Sessions.
Community Contribution Sessions
Exploring the Collaborative Nature of Leadership - Charles Hicks
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> BE PRESENT
> TASTE EVERYTHING
> STEP UP, STEP BACK
AGREEMENTS
> BigOn our first day together the community took time to make some requests of each other and come to some agreements about how to be in our space.
Requests
Be Present
Taste Everything
Step up, step back
Agreements
When in the big group - take opportunities to Wed, 16 May 2007 13:32:44 +0000 mod Requests and Agreements http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/Requests+and+Agreements email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline added Requests and Agreements

REQUESTS


> BE PRESENT


> TASTE EVERYTHING


> STEP UP, STEP BACK


 


 


 


AGREEMENTS


> Big group - take opportunities to move ; giggle every hour (or two minutes)


> Assuming best intentions


> Go into situations with an open mind


> Disagree respectfully


> Don't interrupt atmosphere of respect


> Take risk/experiment/be vulnerable


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Requests and Agreements
Agenda (notes embedded)
Photo Gallery
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- Values - they influence the system's/community's ability to foster collective leadership
always mean mean the same thing - it is reflective of the setting and culture (it does not always look the same) - there is much to learn from different models
- Melding different perspective of different generations = US
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- How can we explore our own relationship to the charismatic leader?
- Collective - you will always be the gift you are
- Values - they influence the system's/community's ability to foster collective leadership
- Collective leadership does not always mean
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- Without the rest of the team, you stand alone
- How do we enter a different type of leadership?
- Relationships in a system - not defining, sensing, describing
- Values, power; task vs process
- Work at nature's pace - how long will we take then to undo the damage; and remember how quickly damage can be done
- Being open to all the gifts of the group; learn from one another
- Not about you and me; its about us
- Individual leadership shift to everyone can be a leader
- Collaboration is different from but part of collective leadership - people aren't necessarily like-minded but are like-visioned; surface activity vs deep, heart-centered interaction
- Organizational context - traditions/history, freedom for collective leadership, tension to get to agitation
- All leadership is relational but not necessarily collective
- How will this really work ove]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 15:30:25 +0000 mod Emerging ThemesCS8 http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/Emerging+ThemesCS8 email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline edited Emerging ThemesCS8 - What is the role of interpersonal/social skills for leaders whose dominant experience of communication is mediated by technology?
- How does interdependency inform collective leadership? How does it lead to expanding the base of stakeholders? How does that impact how we do our work, talk our work and think our work?
dis-equilibrium are
are not factors?)
> WHEN does collective leadership make sense?
- What contexts are best for collective leadership?
- What conditions need to be in place for collective leadership?
- Is collective leadership situational? Is it time or place sensitive/contingent?
> WHAT does collective leadership look like?
- What different ways of making decisions reflect genuine collective leadership?
- What is the intersection of individual and group in the collective process?
- What is the collective nature of all leadership?
- How is collective leadership different from coalitions, alliances?
- How is collect]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:56:11 +0000 mod Emerging ThemesCS8 http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/Emerging+ThemesCS8 email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline edited Emerging ThemesCS8 - How can leadership be supported in learning to develop shared purpose and mobilize collective actions?
- How is collective leadership interjected into systems so it is not dependent on individuals?
- From relationships where our capacity to heal is acknowledged, that supports community reconciliation and community enhancement
- Which is more important for every member in a group to feel equal valued or for every member in a group to be equally involved, or is it?
- By giving up your institutionalized power
- How can we create safe spaces within our organizations and communities to be able to have honest conversations about our challenges, needs and weaknesses?
- What is the role of interpersonal/social skills for leaders whose dominant experience of communication is mediated by technology?
- How does interdependency inform collective leadership? How does it lead to expanding the base of stakeholders? How does that impact how we do our work, talk our work and think our work?
- Ho]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:52:37 +0000 mod Emerging ThemesCS8 http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/Emerging+ThemesCS8 email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline edited Emerging ThemesCS8 What's the degree of individual leadership required for working well in collective leadership?
What are the decision points around the relationship and the fluid prioritization of the "I" and the "We"
The BIG Framing Questions
> WHY collective leadership?
- What is accomplished by collective leadership?
- Is collective leadership a vehichel for building leadership connections across silos, sectors, boundaries?
- What gives rise to or supports collective leadership?
- What is the impact of collective leadership?
- Leadership for what? What does success look like?
- Individual vs group or team; ego vs group or team; power vs group or team. How can we talk about this reality?
> HOW is collective leadership cultivated?
- What skills are needed for collective leadership and how are they cultivated?
- What leadership program elements nurture collective leadership?
- How can leadership be supported in learning to develop shared purpose and]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:37:14 +0000 mod Miguel-Role of Place http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/Miguel-Role+of+Place email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline edited Miguel-Role of Place]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:29:21 +0000 mod Miguel-Role of Place http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/Miguel-Role+of+Place email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline edited Miguel-Role of Place - Having our perspective re-shaped
- ID blockage - mitigate - overcome
-- Self processing and reflection
- Appreciation of metaphors
- Honoring leadership from different culture and perspectives
- Making the space to grieve and honor leadership transitions
- Humility
- Giving up judgment to open up to learning
- Staying open to your pain and that of others
- Listening to young people
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- Collect out thoughts, definitions, vision of collective leadership
- Being in Open Space allows answers that are there
- Maybe missing an opportunity of BEING in collective leadership with each other(i.e.; physical space, tables, chairs etc.)
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- Building relationships
AND QUESTIONS: QUESTIONS - CONDITIONS THAT OPEN OUR LEARNING
- Discomfort
- Be a student as well
- Honor/appreciate the unexpected
- Trust group instinct (listen, be still)
- Reaching beyond boundaries
- Making connection
- Pre-conceived notion vs internal knowing
- Diverse perspective
- Ask clarifying questions
- Finding unexpected ways to belong Fri, 11 May 2007 12:20:08 +0000 mod AgendaCS8 http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/AgendaCS8 email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline edited AgendaCS8]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:05:09 +0000 mod AgendaCS8 http://creatingspace.pbwiki.com/AgendaCS8 email.hidden@example.com (Pauline) Pauline edited AgendaCS8]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 12:04:03 +0000 mod