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Book 1 A Career Creative Curriculum Scott Downs & Gerald Doyle

Print March 2018 Beta version 3.0 This version 3.0 reflects the one-semester course in Blackboard and Canvas to be offerered at Illinois Tech beginning March 2018 A CAREER CREATIVE CURRICULUM A curriculum in personal creativity, innovation and leadership 00 1 2 3 4 5 17 18 19 20 Copyright 2018 W Scott Downs III and Gerald P. DoyleLayout and format designed by Akram Maradni, Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture

Layout Introduction P Section 25 Purpose Quest Dog-ear typePage Bringing inspiration to life For bookmarking Sub-Title and attaching extra Note Traditional societies have well-practiced patterns for note pages orAuthor Notes Although skilled helping members of their communities tap into a sense of excercise pages facilitation is highly vision, inspiration or purpose -- especially at times of keyThese Notes would valuable, an outline transitions, for example from adolescence to adulthood or Titlegeneraly have extra for a one-day Quest from adulthood to elderhood. These rites of passage arenotes, explinations, appears below for often experienced as quests, and they tend to involve a Text Bodyor references by the those who would like period of extended reflection and connection with nature.author to work with it Normal Text independently. As a result of engaging in such a quest, participants Highlight text regularly emerge with breakthrough clarity about what inspires them in life. This could be expressed overtly as a sense of purpose, or as themes and threads of inspiration, like images or metaphors or animal guides, or a sense of their “highest goal.” Within this Curriculum, we would seek to offer and support participants to engage in quests on several levels: • Multi-day facilitated quests out in the natural world, generally involving substantial reflective time alone in the wilderness • Weekend quests, using a similar format but over a shorter time scale • Single-day quests Important Highlight Personal Notes space Use This Space to write down your notes, thoughts and memos as you go through the book as both an excercise and for later reference. in some cases you should also tuck in a paper at the page if you need extra space for your notes or for excercisesIntroductory Exercises Dialogue points Mental models Skillsmaterial

1 Introduction Session 1 This curriculum is an offering. It seeks to share material that has come into our hands concerning a few intimately related topics: • discovering a sense of personal purpose and inspiration • bringing that purpose and inspiration to life • releasing creative and innovative potential • gaining access to a range of personal and organisational leadership frameworks. This material is based on publicly available sources, but we find these sources often appear dispersed. The material we have gathered is sometimes presented to senior executives or to business leaders who are usually in middle or late middle age, long after they have undertaken the bulk of their education and shaped their professional careers. That this material is not more widely shared seems to us a great shame, because, with early access, we believe this material can call us all forward - when we are young or when we reflect at different points in life - to live much more inspired, creative and abundant lives - for our own benefit and for the benefit of our communities, societies and ecosystems.

Introduction 2 Session1We find that the elements of this material are bothsimple and deep. We believe many people can benefitvery quickly from exposure to the curriculum elementsand can then deepen their practice with them to greaterand greater effect over a lifetime.This curriculum is also a co-creative experiment. Far fromwishing to dictate a narrow path, we as hosts seek tooffer our best understandings today as clearly andauthentically as we can - and to continually learn anddevelop the curriculum in partnership with all itsparticipants. As you participate, we earnestly hope youwill share your insights and your breakthroughs with allof us. As authors and stewards we commit to be listening,and to do our best to weave the community’s learningand insights into the curriculum as a living thing.

3 Why this curriculum? SSesessisoiSne1on1 We offer this curriculum because we want to help ourselves, and others young at heart, to discover what inspires us and to bring that inspiration creatively to life. We hope to invite and support our participants and ourselves to lead abundant, rewarding and generous lives - according to our own personal understanding of those inspirations.

4We welcome you to thecreative adventure.

5 TThheecumrriecu1lum’s themes Session 1Video: The curriculum has nine major themes - each framed as a question.. The curriculum’s learning objectives are to helpSteve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford participants understand and be able to use mentalCommencement Address models and skills in each of the themed areas, and to weave the themes together. The overall learning objec-https://www.youtube.com/ tive of the curriculum is to allow participants to:watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&Video: • discover or refine a sense of personalDavid Foster Wallace: inspirationThis is Water • bring that inspiration to life in concrete ways in an abundant and rewarding life and career • release their creative and innovative potentialhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&Video: Woven elegantly together, our experience is that theseSimon Sinek: elements create a powerful foundation for living andStart with Why working. Each of the themes plays a key part, and each is in relationship with the others. The curriculum is not inhttps://www.youtube.com/ any way intended to replace personal journeys ofwatch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc& learning, caring for others, creativity or service - but rather to act as a contributory foundation for such jour- neys: for personal growth, for creative and fulfilling work, and for building relationships and communities - all in service of each participant’s understanding of his or her deepest truth.

Nine questions 6 Session1The curriculum’s nine questions are:1 How can we discover a sense of inspiration - individual and/orcollective - and bring it to life?2 How can we call forward and hold spaces for relationship anddialogue - for connection -  one to one, in teams, in organisationsand in ecosystems?3 How can we hold and help others to hold journeys of inquiry?4 How can we learn to step into a range of healthy and usefulleadership stances, states and qualities of mind?5 How can we make sense of journeys to greater maturity andawareness?6 How can we learn to understand and work with a view of theworld of complex, adaptive human systems?7 How can we learn to understand and work with the full rangeof human, embodied capabilities?8 How can we help to take in and share a design ethos, an invita-tion to be a maker?9 How can we hold and encourage journeys of personal andsystemic transformation?

7 The pattern of work Session 1 Each of the questions will be explored in turn - the order listed above has a certain resonance for us as catalysts and initiators, so we have chosen to follow it as a prototype for pursuing the work. Each thematic section, though, is intended to stand on its own; we encourage you to find your own rhythms and patterns in doing this work.Video: Within each question’s section, you will find:Parker Palmer: • Some written content to share key ideasLiving from the Inside that have touched and inspired usOut - as foundations for face-to-face discussionhttps://www.youtube.com/ • Video and/or audio content thatwatch?v=OWRDKNXPq3Y may overlap with and/or extend written content Video: • Suggested readings and quotations thatMike Rowe celebrates amplify and expand thematic elementsdirty jobs https://www.ted.com/talks/ • Suggestions for dialogue with catalysts,mike_rowe_celebrates_ coaches, mentors, fellow participants,dirty_jobs and significant others around the themes • Exercises that may deepen experience within the theme We hope and intend that this material be the foundation of active personal discussion and dialogue, one-to-one, in small groups, and among a wider community or communities inspired by this work.

Ground rules 8 Session1The curriculum intends• To choose dialogue and collective exploration of the material as a principle for the use of our face-to-face time together, rather than various forms of monologue. Input material will as a principle be provided either as text or recorded as video and/or audio.• All content to be available online• Online discussion groups will be available and encouraged for use between sessions• Participants are invited to engage actively in the curriculum, including scheduled meeting sessions, coaching and group dialogues, while respecting the rhythms and priorities of their own lives• The curriculum leaders and catalysts see themselves as MEFTs - More Experienced Fellow Travellers - and not as experts. Course leaders hold space and do their best not to “take up” space



Question 1:How can we discover a sense ofinspiration - individual and/orcollective - and bring it to life?

9 Journaling can be an important reflective exercise, when you give yourself time and permission.

Journaling 1240 Session 1We invite you to create a space for capturing andretaining your learnings and reflections on the journey of Video:this curriculum. A time-tested way to do this is to make oracquire a physical notebook or journal in which to write Introduction toyour reflections. We’d emphasise that other media that Session 1work for you - electronic or physical - are also entirelywelcome. As you will see, we will invite you to draw https://www.youtube.pictures or create images, and also to find or collect from com/watch?v=jXMdoutside sources images, audio, video, and/or objects -whatever evokes your learning and your journey for you.We encourage you to keep these inspirational “records”safe and to treasure them … and … at appropriate times,respecting your own privacy and when it seems rightto you, to share parts of them with others of your choiceto enrich your own journey and those of yourcollaborators.Journaling can be an important reflective exercise. Whenyou give yourself time and permission to let thoughts,feelings, intuitions, and felt sense flow out of you, andcapture them, you will find over time that you are creat-ing deep resources of insight for yourself. Insights intoyour history, your current reality, the choices you havemade, the choices you could make now. About who youare and what you want. About your deepest truth,your highest goal. About the world you want to create,and the choreography and the pathways by which youcould bring it to life. About the resources you have orcould discover to create the world you envision.

11 ExCehreCccihske-ci:nkC-hineck-in Session 1 In many forms of dialogue, participants do something called a “check-in”. Depending on the context, doing this formally may or may not seem appropriate. But as a context it is worth remembering and you may be able to use the structure informally. In a check-in, people typically sit in a circle, and each is in turn invited to say how they are in themselves and to say what they are looking for or anticipating in the meeting, dialogue or process you are entering. Sometimes there is a specific check-in question. Each person speaks in turn, often moving around clockwise. Everyone has an equal chance to speak. Participants agree to listen appreciatively and deeply to each other, without interruption. The practice has the core virtue of honouring all participants equally, allowing all participants to be authentic about their state of mind coming in to the meeting, and to be clear and open about intentions and expectations. It also permits a range of perspectives to be shared, fostering collaboration and a respect for diverse viewpoints. If checking in is new to you, choose a “safe” context or meeting and invite all participants to sit in a circle and check-in in turn, saying briefly how they are and what they want and expect from the meeting. Notice the effect on you, on other participants, and on the quality of the dialogue and collaboration that ensues.

Check-out 12 Session1A check-out is a relative of a check-in. The process ismuch the same: participants sit in a circle and speak inturn, everyone speaking on an equal basis. Participantsreport on how they are in themselves at the end of themeeting, what they are taking away, and what theyintend to do do now as a result of the meeting. As witha check-in, all voices are heard and valued equally. Andall participants are able to benefit and understand thelearnings and personal reactions of the others.In an appropriate setting, invite all participants to sit ina circle and check-out in turn, saying briefly how theyare at the close of the meeting, event or process, whatthey have learned and what they will do as a result of themeeting. Notice the effect on you, on other participants,and on the quality of the collaboration and cooperationthat ensues following the meeting. You may also wish toobserve how these practices affect people’s enthusiasmfor meetings, for attendance, for participation, and forputting common decisions into practice.

13 Five points of inspiration Session 2 A person’s deepest truth(s) Close personalRelationship relationshipswith Self Work - Creativity Service, Practice Communities and ecosystems

Five points of inspiration 14 Session 2 Video:In our work with young people, one useful and simple Introduction tomental model that emerged for exploring for and Session 2discovering inspiration is a five-pointed star, where thepoints of the star are as follows: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=lyypvs1T-• A person’s deepest truth(s) TQM&t=0s&list=PL-vEo-• Close personal relationships Video:• Communities and ecosystems• Work - Creativity, Service, Practice• Relationship with Self The Personal Philosophy of StevenReflecting in creative ways on each of the five points can Pinkerbe a rich source of inspiration. Each of the points will be https://www.youtube.com/more important for some people than for others. Some watch?v=q-n0t2kk8w4people find inspiration in all five points, some only in oneor two. The boundaries of the five directions Video:illustrated by the star are not at all hard or rigid, but What Makes a Greatrather flowing and interconnected. Typically, different Life:points of the star are connected to other points. For each Harvard studyperson the whole picture tends to have coherence, evenif tensions appear between the attractions of thedifferent points. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI

15 Deepest truth Session 2Here follows a brief Most people we have encountered have somediscussion of each of sense of what is deeply true for them. Yourthe five points: deepest truth includes what you understand to be the fundamental principles of how the world works and what are the guiding principles for nature, for the universe, for life, for people individually and in groups, and for yourself.If you have a sense of faith or spirituality, your faith oryour spiritual values are likely to be a major part of yourdeepest truth. If you have a personal philosophy, this islikely to be part of your deepest truth. If you seeyourself as a rationalist, then your own rationality andyour structured methods of inquiry could be thefoundation of your deepest truth. If you are a humanist,your sense of what is needed for the future of humanityis probably part of your deepest truth.People’s deepest truth often illuminates for them howthey should act in their lives. Their deepest truth mightcall them to deeper exploration, practice or study. Or itcould call them to action in the world.

Exploring deepest truth 16 Session 2What do you believe is deeply true about the universe? Video:About nature? About the ecology of the earth? Aboutthe human community? About an individual humanbeing? About relationships? About yourself? Would You Follow You? https://www.youtube.com/Give yourself time to reflect on this. We invite you to take watch?v=knYelygG1fIa walk, perhaps in a beautiful and peaceful natural orevocative setting. Write about what comes up for you inyour journal as you go, from time to time, without undu-ly interrupting the flow of your reflection.What about this reflection inspires you? What partmotivates you to act? What part motivates you to be in acertain way? Do you feel energy and strong motivationaround this? Your inspirational motivation may arisefrom a positive energy - something you want to create,embrace or move towards, or it may originate in thingsyou want to avoid, eliminate or reform (for example waror political or social injustice). In any case, we invite youto crystallise the inspiration, if one arises, in a positiveform (“I want to create or call forward ….. inwardly oroutwardly”). Consider holding the question, “How do Iderive inspiration from my sense of my deepest truth?”Give yourself time for the question to mature and for theanswer to unfold. Don’t be concerned if this point of thestar does not ignite much energy for you. Each person isdifferent, there are four other points of the star toconsider, and the star is in itself only one possible men-tal model. Record your insights in your journal if this fitsfor you, or consider making a Temenos map to expressit (see discussion of the Temenos Effect later) or findingevocative images or objects to capture your inspiration.

17 ExCelrocEissxep:PlEoexrprislnoogrnindageldReepeelepasettsitottrnruusthhhips Session 2 Do you feel inspired by close personal relationships? By this we mean partner relationships, family ties, and close friendships. These are relationships that are most powerfully understood in the context of one-to-one connections, or possibly one-to-a-few, as opposed to larger groups (see the discussion of Communities and Ecosystems below). Are you inspired by the idea of being in a loving and cre- ative partnership? Either because you are in such a rela- tionship now or because you want to be in one? Are you inspired by close family ties, as a parent, or as a child, as a brother or sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, cousin. Are you inspired by close friendships, whether discovered in personal life, socially, in the community, or in work? Ask yourself what gets your energy or excitement flow- ing: rejoicing in (or reforming) the present state, or imag- ining and seeking to create an inspired future around the kind of relationships you want to create with the people closest to you. Once again, this realm may or may not be your most energised point of the star. Others may be more important. Allow your own truth to emerge.

Close Personal Relationships 18 Session 2 Reflect on your close personal relationships as they exist for you: with your parents, your siblings, your children if you have them, your spouse, partner or significant other in romantic relationship (if this is true for you). Your close friends and colleagues, people where you have a direct sense of connection, of knowing and being known, of caring for the other and being cared for. Perhaps in certain areas of your life such relationships are missing: possibly someone close to you has died or broken away. Perhaps you are seeking a kind of connection you have not yet found, romantically or in friendship. What inspires you about how such close relationships are now or could be in the future? Do your relationships, or your hopes for them, give meaning, quality or rich- ness to your life or the lives of others in your circle of connection? Are there relationships you are still seeking to form? Are there parts of your relationship-life that are missing or that you would like to improve? Make notes about these reflections in your journal. Consider holding the question, “How can I find inspiration in my close personal relationships?” Allow yourself time and space to let the questions mature. Be on the lookout for breakthrough insights, possibly when you least expect them. As with other points of the star, record your insights in words in your journal, in maps, in objects or in images, in ways that are most meaningful to you.

19 CECxloersmceismPe:euCrnlsoiosteinePaesrlsaRonnedallaReteciloaotnsioysnhssthipeipmss s Session 2 Are you energised by being a member of or belonging to a group of some kind, a group that has a defined identi- ty? Communities could be defined by your place or or- ganisation of work, your school or university community, your ethnicity, your nationality, your gender, your sexual orientation, your neighborhood or sense of belonging to a place, your political, social, professional or avocational affiliations. Your sense of community could be defined around connection to nature and to the environment, on a large or narrower field. Companies, entrepreneurial ventures, non-profits and other work environments are an important and natural form of community.Video: What sorts of communities have you loved and felt atChangeX - Great people home in? What sorts do you long for but have not yetand ideas transform found or created? What sorts have repelled you andcommunities called you to initiate change? What sorts of communities can you imagine that you want to found,https://www.youtube.com/ lead, or call forward?watch?v=sh28va2_Weg You may also be focused on your participation - and that of others - in natural or social ecosystems. If you are inspired by protecting or celebrating the earth, the natural environment, you may be seeing your mem- bership in natural ecosystem as inspiring. Equally, you may be energised by the chance to be part of a larger so- cial ecosystem, conceived of as being much larger than any social or organisational group, and perhaps includ- ing the interrelationships of many such groups.

Communities and ecosystems 20 Session 2 Reflect on the kinds of communities and ecosystems that inspire you - positively or negatively. What kinds do you want to found or contribute to? Call forward? Transform? Protect or foster? In what ways will these communities nurture you and call forward your creativity, your innovative spirit, your ability to serve others. How will they affect others? What kinds of relationships will they foster? Make notes about this in your journal. Consider holding the question, “How can I find inspiration in my communities or ecosystems?” Allow yourself time and space to let the question mature. Be on the lookout for breakthrough insights, possibly when you least expect them. Make notes about these reflections in your journal. Consider holding the question, “How can I find inspiration in the communities and ecosystems I can create, develop or join?” Allow yourself time and space to let the questions mature. Be on the lookout for breakthrough insights, possibly when you least expect them. As with other points of the star, record your insights in words in your journal, in maps, in objects or in images, in ways that are most meaningful to you.

21 WExoerrckise: Finding inspiration in Work. Session 2 How does the potential of Work (we write it here with a capital W) inspire you? When we think of Work, we mean at its best a context in which your full creativity and your capacity for service and self-expression are called forward. Where you can serve others in a truly inspired way. Where you can practice and hone your “craft,” your “art” and your skills in a truly inspired way. What would be the ideal “job” for you to do - it might be more of an avocation than a way of earning a living, or it might be both?Video: What skills do you have - or roles do you play - for whichMichael Bungay you are or might be paid and those you do or would doStanier: “Do More for love. Don’t limit yourself to just one path. What areGreat Work” the varied themes of Work in the world that inspire you? In what ways will these themes nurture you and call for-https://www.youtube.com/ ward your true identity, your creativity, your innovativewatch?v=9PFYnDGDJqw spirit, your ability to serve others. Make notes about this in your journal. Consider holding the question, “How can I find inspiration in my Work - broadly and creatively defined?” How can I tune my existing skills and the productive opportunities and skill-building oppor- tunities I actually face to refining and bringing to life my inspiration around Work. Allow yourself time and space to let the questions mature. Be on the lookout for break- through insights, possibly when you least expect them. Make notes about these reflections in your journal. Allow yourself time and space to let the questions mature. Be on the lookout for breakthrough insights, possibly when you least expect them. As with other points of the star, record your insights in any ways that are most meaningful to you.

Finding Inspiration in Self 22 Session 2Where and how do you see yourself now? Who are you? Video:What do you want to learn? How do you want to grow? Would You Follow You?It could be through education, personal development,goal setting, spiritual development, physical https://www.youtube.com/development, health, wealth … Does growing or learn- watch?v=knYelygG1fIing or developing as a person inspire you?Reflect on the kinds of personal evolution that inspireyou - mental, spiritual, physical, material. Make notesabout this in your journal. Consider holding thequestion, “How can I find inspiration in my relationshipwith myself, in my personal growth and development -broadly and creatively defined?” Allow yourself time andspace to let the question mature. Be on the lookout forbreakthrough insights, possibly when you least expectthem.As with other points of the star, record your insights inwords in your journal, in maps, in objects or in images, inways that are most meaningful to you.

2153 TWhhoemameI a1nd what do I want?Session 3In busy modern life, our experience is that we One of our favourite leadershiprarely find space to ask ourselves these questions. frameworks is from the Trust-Even more rarely are we invited by others to ask Temenos practice. It’s an imagethem, in a way that gives us the respect and the of a tree of leadership, with twotime and space we need to reflect on them. The seed-like circles (like the symbolsgift of that time and space, together with being of yin and yang) at its root. Theheld appreciatively in “unconditional positive two circles are marked “Identity”regard”, are crucial parts of what makes the and “Intent”.TrustTemenos experience so special.The questions are not simple ones. We can always What we’ve learned from thisgo deeper into them, see them in new lights, and framework is to see identity andlearn more about them. The answers change and intent as roots of leadership.develop, as we learn and grow, and as we add new These are the questions, so of-experiences to our understanding. Having a safe ten asked in TrustTemenos work:space to inquire, to share, to learn, to explore, to “Who am I?” and “What do Idiscover, to develop the answers to these want?”.questions, the understanding of the questionsthemselves, is an immense gift.When we can begin to feel grounded in our understanding of these two questions,our leadership can really take off. We can move up the “tree of leadership,” build-ing relationships of trust, navigating and creating contexts and communities of ourown, and nurturing growth for myself, for others and for the organisations in whichwe lead. Out of these movements we generate practical results in the world:abundance, love, creativity and service. We make things and serve people. we earna living for our family and for potentially thousands of people under our care. Webuild organisations with a lasting ability to add value in people’s lives. These out-comes are intensely practical, real-world benefits, all proceeding from a grounded,clear and inspiring understanding of who we are and what we want.

Temenos 2264 Session 3How in practice do we find answers to these questions?Perhaps strangely, just becoming aware of them andholding them in consciousness seems to be a huge stepforward. And being held and honoured and respected inthose inquiries is a massive help: we have learned that itis more than ok simply to hold the questions, espeiciallywhen we have friends to explore them with, who will lis-ten to us, question us, support us, challenge us. We finda mirror for our journeys.In TrustTemenos work, we sit in circles where thesequestions are brought forward, not under pressure, orjudgementally, or in a competitive way, but patiently,admiringly, curiously, playfully. Under these conditions,understanding, awareness and inspiration always seemto flower, to grow - like a tree grows.We invite you to join us, to experience this flowering foryour yourself. Who are you? What do you want?

1215775 TTTeehTmmeeememnneoonsesomas1saMapap-pahtishttoory... Session 3Video: A particularly fruitful approach to these two questionsIntroduction to appears in the Temenos practice, where we are invited toSession 3 reflect, journal and then make visual maps of our experience to share with others in our circle. We starthttps://www.youtube.com/ with an Influence Map or Personal Mythology - a lookwatch?v=L9gHOLnDHTU&t at our personal history. In answering the question, Who am I?, having a clear view of our personal history and theVideo: people and moments that have brought us to where weByrad Yyelland: are now can be a crucial step toward understanding whoIdentity in the 21st we are. The maps we make can be pregnant with symbolsCentury and images of ourselves, our experiences and our journeys to the present day. Sharing them and explaininghttps://www.youtube.com/ them in a supportive circle deepens our understandingwatch?v=hoCLCAQJ6_A enormously. In a very similar way, we can make a map of our currentVideo: identity. Who am I today, and how would I portray thatOllie Ritchie: visually in a way that I can present it to myself and others.What Do You Want to A second part of understanding who we are comes fromBe? looking at ourselves in the various human systems, or contexts, or containers, of which we are a part. Thishttps://www.youtube.com/ examination is referred to in Temenos as the “Clean Slate”watch?v=hoCLCAQJ6_A process. In Clean Slate, we do another exercise in reflection, journaling, visualising, and shared articulation, this time focusing on a particular relationship or organisational context. This reflection gives us a view of how we are and how we function in the relationships we are focusing on during the Clean Slate: we ask ourselves “Who am I” through a particular relational and systemic lens. And … as we look at who we are in our contexts, we get a view of what it is we want in those relationships.

YoAu.rf.i.Triesdtmekneetnyitosyskainlnlf:dljuoienuntrecnneatmliionangp. 22686 Session 3The third part of Temenos, capturing a vision of the Video:future, helps us focus even more on the “What do I want?” The Notebook:question. When we reflect, journal, draw and present our What Do You Want?vision of the future, we are navigating the space of whatwe want. Often just performing the exercise, in a loving https://www.youtube.com/and supportive setting, gives great insight about our watch?v=E1I0hAxGFXwfundamental desires.We are indebted to Siraj Sirajuddin for creating, and to Video:Olaf Lewitz and Christine Neidhardt for developing and Adam Leipzig:bringing to Europe, the Temenos framework. The How to Know Your Lifeframework is described in detail in the book, Showing Up, Purpose in Five Minutesby Olaf and Christine. (https://leanpub.com/showingup) https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=E1I0hAxGFXw Video: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=E1I0hAxGFXw

21577 TTehTmeeemmneonseoms1aMpa-phistory Session 3Video: Please be invited to reflect on your personal history. Give yourself some time, as you reflect, to journal (and/or collect meaningful objects and images) about where youMarcus Lyon:Is Your Identity Given have come from. What have been the main crucial eventsor Created? and main influences in your life? What did you learn athttps://www.youtube. key moments? How were you then? How did you change?com/watch?v=-tJK- How are you now? We suggest giving yourself at leastGZ_xSZ0 30 minutes to journal about these questions. You may choose to leave that section of your journal for a time, leave some space, continue reflecting and come back to it. This exercise can be done at one sitting or over a period of time. Next, consider how might you present your life history to yourself or to a small group of trusted other people on a large map - perhaps on a sheet of A1 paper, like flip chart paper. You can use pictures, diagrams, shapes, colours, anything you want, to create a visual map. Please give yourself permission to be creative and expressive! You may want to consider your history generally, or focus particularly on your history viewed from a particular lens or vantage point, e.g. looking back as you start university or a training course, as you prepare to seek or start work, as you prepare to begin a new relationship or end an old one, as you face a particular decision, and so on.

YoAurfiTresmt keenyosskminllaf:lpjuoe-unhrcniseatomlirnaygp. 22688 Session 3 Don’t worry if you don’t often draw pictures or if you don’t consider yourself good at drawing. This image need only be shown to yourself - and only if you actively choose this, to people you specifically invite or deeply trust to see it. It is impossible to do this wrong. The process of doing the image-creation is consistently and remarkably valuable, even for, indeed especially for, those who rarely do similar exercises. Give yourself time to create the map, perhaps 15 to 30 minutes. Present your map, at the very least to yourself. If there is a coach, catalyst or significant other who you deeply trust, we invite you to present it to them as well. In the ideal case, convene a group of trusted friends or colleagues to share maps together. It is wonderfully powerful, and strongly recommended, to invite everyone in the circle (even a circle of two) to present. Include any facilitators or coaches in the invitation, so that you can exchange maps and share them together. Give each person a good period, perhaps 20-40 minutes each, to present their map. If working with others, and also if working with yourself (as if you were an objective observer), listen deeply to what is said and pictured and the feelings, intuitions and embodied experiences behind the words. Share your insights and experience with other presenters, but resist trying to judge, evaluate, fix or ad- vise what others are sharing. Hold each other gently, lov- ingly, appreciatively. What does this journey tell you about who you have been, and who you are now?

29 TTehmeemnoes m1ap - history Session 3 The question “Who am I?” is a powerful one in Temenos work, as well as in many other wisdom traditions and personal development disciplines. After having done the exercise of reflecting, visualising, and presenting, and having listened and received feedback from yourself and others, and further reflected on all this, take some time to journal for yourself around the question “Who am I?” You will likely see in the map the influences, the people, ideas, forces that have influenced or shaped you. And you will also very likely get important insights into what you have wanted at different times of your life, and whether and how you got what you wanted or needed. Capture key insights for yourself in your journal, in words or symbols or images. We invite you to save your map to go back to and reflect on later - at least save it as an image if it is not possible to preserve the physical map.

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31 My heroes BringSinegssiinosnpi4ration to lifeYour heroes might be Who are your heroes? We invite you to open and hold this question for yourself. Sometimes when we ask1. Historical figures, people who their heroes are, the question comes as a long dead surprise. We invite you to take it up as a question and carry it with you, without pressure for any kind of specific2. Living persons or limited answer, but as an ongoing and living3. Famous people investigation and resource for you in discovering your inspiration.4. Members of your family You might want to keep a heroes list - perhaps on paper,5. Members of your in your journal, or electronically in a medium attractive to you. communities6. Your friends What is it in the story of each of your heroes that makes7. Fictional or mythological them heroes for you? What characteristics of your heroes do you most admire? characters Are those characteristics ones you aspire to for yourself?6. Characters from film, Ones you would wish to see included in your family, your team, your organisation, your community? stage, television, How do you want to bring those wonderful qualities plays, novels, poems, into your own story? Into the stories of the relationships, songs, or stories teams, communities and organisations your are7. Characters from your own creating? imagination8. Animals, plants or natural forms9. Forces of nature Is it possible for you or others to embody the qualities you admire? If not, what is standing in the way?

My heroes 32 Session 4You might want to consider collecting photos, Video:images or symbols of your heroes in one place … or Introduction todrawing images or icons to represent them, to help you Session 4remember them and to make them vivid or inspiring foryou. https://www.youtube.You might also want to collect video and audio clips that com/watch?v=i5DW-8g4N-evoke your heroes for you, and to keep those clips in a HQ&t=0s&list=PL-vEo-special and memorable place where it is easy and c_0nuJjsvaDCVDx4uwP-inviting for you to refer to them and to draw inspiration FyVcA6Syk&index=4from them.You may want to collect physical objects - human-made Video:or from nature - that evoke your heroes and their special Philip Zimbardo - Whoqualities, and again, maintain a special place to hold Are Your Heroes?these artefacts where you feel invited to draw inspirationfrom them. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=cRsZyFeAlqgWhat metaphors give colour and shape to your heroes’ Video:qualities? When your heroes are embodying their most Dyan deNapol :inspiring or admirable qualities, they are like what? Who Inspires You?You might want to consider writing stories about yourheroes, where perhaps you are also a character in the https://www.youtube.com/story. About your heroes: what they are or were like, watch?v=kZfEFzf4Jecwhat changed, what they are like now. Can you visualisethese stories, bringing them to life in your imagination? Video:You might want to consider making a drawing or an Philip Zimbardo: Howevocative map, Temenos-fashion, to illustrate the heroic To Be an Everyday heroquality of some or all of your heroes, individually or ingroups. https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=BzRR3Mo4noU

33 ExMerMycisHyee:HMreoyrehoseersoes* Session 4Video: We have offered you here a range of suggestions forJim Hill: Role Models discovering and living with your heroes. Please beand the Myth of invited to take on for yourself any part of thesePerfection suggestions that serves you, and leave the rest. What insights about your own inspiration does having ahttps://www.youtube.com/ relationship with your heroes evoke for you? Please bewatch?v=0GpIlOF-UzA invited to record any insights in your journal, in maps, or through signs, symbols and artefacts.Video:The Heroes Project * This exercise is inspired by Fred Kofmanhttp://theheroesproject.org/press/FrVideo: Video:Fred Kofman: Beth Comstock - MakeBe Your Own Hero Heroes Out of Failureshttps://leanin.org/educa- https://www.youtube.com/tion/be-your-own-hero/ watch?v=0GpIlOF-UzALink:Myhero.comhttps://myhero.com/sto-ries/welcome

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35 Purpose Quest Session 5Note Traditional societies have well-practiced patterns forAlthough skilled helping members of their communities tap into a sensefacilitation is highly of vision, inspiration or purpose -- especially at times ofvaluable, an outline key transitions, for example from adolescence tofor a one-day quest adulthood or from adulthood to elderhood. These rites ofappears below for passage are often experienced as quests, and they tendthose who would like to involve a period of extended reflection andto work with it connection with nature.independently. As a result of engaging in such a quest, participants regularly emerge with breakthrough clarity about what inspires them in life. This could be expressed overtly as a sense of purpose, or as themes and threads of inspiration, like images or metaphors or animal guides, or a sense of their “highest goal.” Within this Curriculum, we would seek to offer and support participants to engage in quests on several levels: • Multi-day facilitated quests out in the natural world, generally involving substantial reflective time alone in the wilderness • Weekend quests, using a similar format but over a shorter time scale • Single-day quests

Purpose Quest 36 Session 5The depth of insight experienced is likely to be Video:correlated to the time and energy invested, and Introduction toespecially to the quality of the “container” we create, but Session 5we realise that both time and resource availability willvary for participants. All levels of quests will be valuable. https://www.youtube.All quests will benefit from being “held” by experienced com/watch?v=MtNRW3k-and skilled catalysts, and by participants working in small g13Y&t=0s&list=PL-vEo-groups to facilitate dialogue, mutual learning and the c_0nuJjsvaDCVDx4uwP-tapping of collective intelligence. FyVcA6Syk&index=5According to ancient tradition, quests include three phases• Recapitulation: in which participants reflect on their experience in their lives up to the time of the quests• Questing: a period of reflection on the current moment of passage, in connection with nature. This may be only an hour or a few days• Illumination: being open and receptive to the new insight, vision, inspiration or sense of purpose that arises.For more information about longer quests, please see, as examples:http://sacredpassage.com/http://northerndrum.com/pages/shamanic-workshops/northern-drum-vision-quest/85https://www.now-here.com/foundation“Helping young people find their purpose - the Inspiration programme”

37 EOxneeIrn-csdipsaeiyr:aAintoinsoep-ndiarQyaItnuiseopisrnattiqonuQeusestt: Session 5 If at all possible, share your quest with another person or a few others, perhaps including a coach or mentor. Encourage the others fully to participate in the quest with you. In preparation for the quest, over a period of a few days or a few weeks, reflect on the nature of the challenges you are facing: are you now or would you like to be at a point of some transition, say from living in your family home to living on your own, moving to a new level of education, moving from education into work, moving from being single to entering a partnership (or vice versa), becoming a parent, facing a child’s maturing and leaving home, changing jobs or careers, moving into eldership, moving into semi-retirement or retirement. Be invited to journal about your reflections. Consider if there is an insightful question (Nick Udall of the nowhere group calls these Breakthrough Questions) that you wish to hold during the quest. What question, if you knew the answer, would “make all the difference”? The question, if you choose to hold one, should be one to which you do not know the answer, that calls you to exploration of the unknown, one that daunts you at least a little. The question may relate to “Who am I?”“Why am I here?” or “What do I want?” Or it may be of the form “How can I ….” or “How can we ….(for exam- ple, how can we make a major change, create transformation, achieve an important goal?)” As recapitulation, you may wish to capture the history of your life up to the date of our your quest in a structured way, perhaps by writing a short structured autobiography (see exercise later in this book), or by completing a Temenos influence map as described above, or by making a personal shield (see exercise following).

One-day inspriation quest 38 Session 5Set aside a full day for the quest. Find a natural setting that appeals Video:to you, where you will be able to spend some extended time in nature Wilderness-- safely, but in as much isolation and in as beautiful a location as you Questers:can find. Find a place where you will also be able to take shelter for Questers Speakpart of the time if needed for safety, and have access to food and san-itary facilities. You may wish to plan your day around the suggested https://www.schedule below, inserting breaks for meals, hydration, and toilet visits youtube.com/in a respectful and rhythmic way considering the time available, the watch?v=7GIO53B-space and facilities, and the requirements of travel. 1pyc&t=105sArrive early in the morning for your day, and find a place to sit in a Video:circle with all participants. Check in (see exercise at the beginning of John Milton:the book) to share how you are, what you are bringing to the quest: The Value ofyour point of transition if relevant, and a brief introduction of how Solo Time inyou have prepared. Leave time for everyone to do this check-in grace- Naturefully.After the check-in, invite each person to present their history to the https://www.others, in the form he or she has selected (Temenos map, biography, youtube.com/shield). If possible, if people can all use the same form, this may be watch?v=fTJe-ideal. If you are choosing to do Temenos maps, actually drawing them O9wT9sg&fea-on the day together can be a powerful practice. The biographies may ture=youtu.beor may not be shared in complete form, you may choose only todiscuss the important points. Give time for each person to share andfor the group to respond, sharing their insights. This is not a time forcritique or judgment or advice, but rather for sharing insights,encouraging others and drawing learning out through collectiveintelligence.Allow some silent time in the circle after all have shared theirrecapitulations.

39 One-day purpose quest Session 5 When you are ready, go out individually into nature, ideally for at least a few hours. Find a place the speaks to you and attracts you, where you can be undisturbed, having prepared yourself with appropriate clothing, shelter, safety equipment, bathroom breaks, water, etc. During your questing time, hold your question reverently and lightly, but consciously. Be intensely aware of what you experience. Be as present as you can to the moment, and to the direct experience of your presence in nature. Avoid rehashing old issues or worrying about the future cognitively. Notice what you notice. Use all your senses, your felt sense in your body, your intuition -- feel your feelings. Allow what wants to come up to come up for you. Most traditional guidance suggests that it helps to stay largely in one physical place. Make sure your colleagues or any group leaders are aware of where you are for safety reasons, and that you are sure of your location and can find your way back. Be prepared to accept and welcome some challenging weather and other natural conditions, but maintain safety. Take your journal to record your observations, but do not let extensive journaling distract you from being present and ob- servant, of your natural surroundings and of your inner journey, during your quest. At the conclusion of the appointed time, return to the circle quietly and reverently. Take some time together to sit in silence. Then share your experience and any insights that arise with others. In a similar way to the opening circle, allow good time for each person to share individually, perhaps 15-20 minutes. Then let the group share its own reflections and responses collectively, perhaps guided by a skilled catalyst if one is available. Again, this is not a time for critiques or advice, but for shared insight.

One-day purpose quest 40 Session 5You may want to take some silent time for everyone to Video:journal about your learnings. This work is more aboutdeep learnings than about “next actions”, but if any The nowhere Group:commitments or future movements become obvious to The Inspirationyou, record them. Programme (navigate to video of that name)When all have shared, check out (see exercise). Do aclosing round of final observations and learnings. https://www.now-here.Celebrate and honour each other and return respectfully com/insightsand gently to the everyday world.In the days after the event, be aware of the learnings Video:and insights that arise for you. Learnings and insightsmay take some time to mature and show themselves. Seven CirclesRecord them in your journal. You may also want to give Foundation:them form in images or icons. Physical objects may take Vision Questson special meaning. Share these inspirations in dialogue https://www.youtube.com/with a trusted friend coach, and catalyst. watch?v=OXCdcfxi9vQ&- feature=youtu.beWhat answers have arisen for the crucial question youbegan the quest by holding? If this represents a form ofbreakthrough for you, be sure to capture it, treasure it Video:and nourish it. What more do you know about who you Lakota Sioux Visionare? Why you are here? What you want? What inspires Questsyou? Do you have new-found sense of purpose? Perhapssome new threads of inspiration? How you want to be orwhat you want to do in the world? https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=1FySH1pFlUs&- feature=youtu.be

1426801 Temenos - Clean Slate Session 6Video: Please be invited to reflect on a context - a situaton or hu-Desmond Tutu man system - that is important to you right now. It couldon Forgiveness be a personal or a work relationship or situation. A context that involves at least you and one or more other people.https://www.youtube. Create a map on a large sheet of paper in a manner similarcom/watch?v=uo2LG- to the one you may have used for your personal history,GqtjqM sometimes called your Influence Map.Video: Give yourself some time, as you reflect, to journal (and orIntroduction to collect meaningful objects and images) about this situa-Temenos tion. We suggest giving yourself at least 30 minutes to re- flect and journal about these questions. You may choosehttps://youtu.be/aoan- to leave that section of your journal for a time, leave somemPJ6ypk space, continue reflecting and come back to it. This exer- cise can be done at one sitting or over a period of time. How would you draw out graphically or pictorially where you are in the particular context or situation you want to focus on. Who or what are the other forces or influences in the picture? How do they relate to each other? What changes or movements are called for, are emerging for you as you consider the context? How are you currently showing up here? What is the current reality? As you focus and reflect, try to be honest with yourself about all the relevant influences, your own relevant behaviours and patterns - and those of others.

Temenos - Clean Slate 4126820 Session 6This part of the Temenos journey is called Clean Slate. The Video:name reflects the opportunity to use this process to clean Introduction toaway aspects of a situation, our own behaviour or activity Session 6in relationship that are not attuned to our deepest intent.Or to work together with one or more members of the Te- https://www.youtube.menos or container to create a Clean Slate for future crea- com/watch?v=k-tive work together in a state of attunement and flow. 54PLYtYOPQ&in-As with the personal history map or Influence Map, shar- dex=6&list=PL-vEo-ing your Clean Slate map with others, ideally in a circle c_0nuJjsvaDCVDx4uwP-where each person presents their Clean Slate map, creates FyVcA6Syka remarkably powerful context for deep insight, co-crea-tion and collective intelligence.As with Influence Maps, don’t worry if you don’t oftendraw pictures or if you don’t consider yourself good atdrawing. Your images need only be shown to yourself andto people you specifically invite and deeply trust to seethem. It is impossible to do this wrong. Give yourself timeto create the map, perhaps 15 to 30 minutes.Give each person a good period, perhaps 20-40 minuteseach, to present their map. If working with others, andalso if working with yourself (as if you were an objectiveobserver), listen deeply to what is said and pictured andthe feelings, intuitions and embodied experiences behindthe words. Share your insights and experience with otherpresenters, but resist trying to judge, evaluate, fix or ad-vise what others are sharing. Hold each other gently, lov-ingly, appreciatively.

1426803 Temenos - Clean Slate Session 6 As a result of the dialogue and the insights of presenting and interacting with your trusted circle, what new things have you learned and decided about your the context of your Clean Slate? What needs to happen now? What will you do next? Will your“slate”be“cleaner”as a result of new insights, new decisions, new clarity? We invite you to save your map, and record any insights, reflections and decisions in your journal. Note that as a special case of Clean Slate, you can, if you choose to, work with a context that includes only yourself - a case where the situation you are examining is “popu- lated” by different forces, tendencies, voices or elements within yourself, perhaps where you are experiencing chal- lenging inner conflicts or inner dialogue. Doing the map in the same way and sharing it with one or more trusted others in a circle remains a powerful practice in such a case. The Clean Slate process is described powerfully and in more detail in the book Showing Up, by Olaf Lewitz and Christine Neidhardt (https://leanpub.com/showingup)

Temenos - Clean Slate 41226840 Session 6Helpful questionsfor clean slate:How are you currentlyshowing up here?What is the current reality? Asyou focus and reflect, try to behonest with yourself about allthe relevant influences, yourown relevant behaviours andpatterns - and those of others.How does the way you areshowing up attune with yourunderlying intention?What choices are you currentlymaking in this context?Are there choices you wouldlike to make differently?Are there things you wouldlike to communicate to othersin the picture? Conversationsor dialogues you feel called tohave?

1426805 Temenos Vision Session 7Video: Please be invited to reflect on the future that you would like to create or call forward. It could be future as you wishIntroduction to to experience in a personal or relational or work context.Temenos Create a map on a large sheet of paper in a manner similar to the ones you may have used for your personal history,https://youtu.be/aoan- sometimes called your Influence Map, or for your CleanmPJ6ypk Slate. Give yourself some time, as you reflect, to journal (and/or collect meaningful objects and images) about the future as you feel it needs to emerge, as you want it to emerge. We suggest giving yourself at least 30 minutes to journal about these questions. You may choose to leave that sec- tion of your journal for a time, leave some space, continue reflecting and come back to it. This exercise can be done at one sitting or over a period of time. How would you draw out graphically and pictorially what it will be like when the future you envision has emerged? Who or what are the key elements in the picture? How do they relate to each other? What changes or movements will have happened, or will be called for, as the future emerges. How will you and other be showing up? How does this vision of the future attune with your underlying intention? What parts of this vision motivate you? Excite you? Perhaps some parts daunt or frighten you. Which ones are they?