Frontiers Friday #28. Caring for the People in Organisations
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
Frontiers Friday #28. Caring for People in Organisations (Part II)
In continuation with last week's theme, here's 5 take-away tips on caring for people (and yourself) in organisations.
From My Desk: Doubt
Doubt is a good servant but a bad master. Many therapists are plagued with a doubts. In this new blog, I mused about my thoughts around this and my personal wrestlings with doubt (seems to come like the seasons).
p/s: If you are a leader of a team, know that you some of your most caring therapists do struggle with doubts. And so would effective leaders...
From My (Other) Desk: Tenderness is Not a Weakness
Here's from the archives of Full Circles that is based on the wisdom of the late Jean Vanier, founder of the L’Arch and Faith and Light communities.On Culture:
“It’s the realization of how to create a culture which is no longer a culture just of competition, but a culture of welcoming, where tenderness, where touch is important, and it’s not — neither sexualized nor aggressive. It has become human.
And I think that this is what people with disabilities are teaching us. It’s, it’s something about what it means to be human and to relate and to celebrate life together.”Watch: Reflections on 2020.
Here's a webinar with 3 other panelists and 200+ on the call. This is our reflection about 2020 and the road ahead. (My spiel starts around 17:30mins. Note: missing video at first).
I really enjoyed the lawyer Lim Tat's candid talk about family life and work life (starts around 48mins).
Big thanks to Eagles Mediation and Counselling Centre (EMCC) for letting us wonder out loud.
Read: Reducing Zoom Fatigue
Who isn't "zoomed out" by now?
While I've been using videoconference for the majority of my consulting and supervision work for some years, I can certainly feel the effects of prolonged use of the screen for meetings.
This article does a good job of looking at the issues and solutions around navigate videoconferencing tools.
Uber writer, organisational psychologist Adam Grant has a brilliant tweet that summaries the take-home pointers:
(1) Increase mobility: give permission to walk around
(2) Reduce eye contact intensity: sit farther away
(3) Reduce mental load: hold audio-only sessions
(4) Reduce self-consciousness: turn off the self-view
My biggest take-away:
Reducing the video size and blocking video-feed of yourself.
Words Worth Contemplating:
"In change is found another change that includes changing you."
~ Bradford and Hillary Keeney, 2013, Creative Therapeutic Techniques, p. 211.
Reflection:
What was a recent experience that moved you or changed you?
(Note: This could happen in a movie, a conversation, a happenstance, or even a 3 min song).
Deliberate Practice Web-Based Workshop
LAST DAY IS TODAY (Mar 12, 2021).
One of the things we've created the last few months that we are most proud of is this wicked Deliberate Practice web-based workshop.
We completed the journey with the first cohort, plus 2 closed-group live webinars to bring the community together. We are so proud of the 40 participants from all over.
We continue to root for you.
Today is the last day to register for the Deliberate Practice Web-Based Workshop!!!
Starting from March 15, 2021, Scott Miller and I will take you on a guided 3-month journey by using deliberate practice to improve your work.
It's a life-time access to the content (one-off payment, not a subscription-based).
To find out more and enroll, pls go to this link.
Space is limited to 40.
Don't forget to use the exclusive 15% discount code at the checkout: BETTERRESULTSTEAM
Oh, and if you bought the Better Results book already and are keen to join the web-based workshop, drop us an email with your receipt and we will give another $50 off, on top of the 15% discount.
BIG WELCOME TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS WHO WANT TO BE AT THEIR FRONTIER!
If you've just joined us, I'm glad you can join us at the "bleeding edge." Feel free to check out the back catalogue of Frontiers of Psychotherapists Development (FPD).
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If you want more musings, my other blog is Full Circles: Reflections on Living