Peak Flow Experience: What is Optimal Experience for You?

Peak Flow Experience: What is Optimal Experience for You?

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Remembering a peak experience when you felt this sense of flow, when you were at one with the experience and there were no boundaries between you and the activity.
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Change is good – Closing out Season 2- PS 105

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In Season 3: Appreciative Leading I’ll be talking to guests who’ll share their experiences of leading from an appreciative mindset.  I am excited to speak with business leaders and entrepreneurs, and with professionals from the legal, medical, IT and financial worlds; marketers, artists, journalists, teachers, and spiritual leaders. And, I there is an invitation for you be a patron or sponsor of my show.
Inspiring Meeting Design for More Authentic Connections

Inspiring Meeting Design for More Authentic Connections

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Think back to a meeting that you really enjoyed. What role did the meeting design play in that meeting? You were engaged, you listened actively, you contributed, you felt heard and seen. You walked out of the meeting feeling uplifted and more energized than when you walked in. What was that meeting like?

Changing Beliefs about Human Capacity – PS104

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To close this Season, we reflect on Appreciative Voice and how the seven literacies are impacting our thinking and relationships. We share findings from our fieldwork; and, we introduce our new thinking and learning about human capacity: four assumptions of changing beliefs about what we're all capable of and how that might reframe our realities.
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Finding the Future: Using our Voice to Shape the Future – PS 103

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Anticipating what is possible and how we fuel it is the topic of this literacy: Finding the Future.  It helps if we envision a better future if we shift what's going on that isn't serving to that which is serving in any given situation.  It's very powerful to dream of something new and different and develop that muscle to search for our collective appreciative voice to shape the future.
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Connecting the Collective: Dynamics, Dialogue, Decisions – PS102

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Connecting the collective is the work of hearts and minds.  This literacy focuses us on living into the "we." Connecting and belonging are the life-blood of human organizing and relationships. Starting conversations that are real and inclusive lifts up our appreciative voice.
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Welcoming Wholeness – The Magic of Multiplicity – PS101

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We need one another to make sense of all that is going on around us. Finding our personal and collective wholeness contributes to our sense of belonging. In coming together, our combined intelligence, and intent for wholeness and belonging enables new wisdom and solutions to surface.  In relationship with others, when we are welcomed, we taste the fullness of life. The Literacy to strengthen our Appreciative Voice in this episode is Welcoming Wholeness - the inclusive Voice.
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Powering the Positive: Fusing Strengths for Flow, Energy and Connection – PS100

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Paying attention to and magnifying the positive in people, communities, and networks help us flourish. Among the benefits of knowing our strengths include finding more flow and meaning in work, feeling more energized than drained, and seeing our relationships improve by coming from a place of greater ease.
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Kindling Kindness: Raising our Capacity for Cultivating Compassion – PS99

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In cultivating compassion, we grow empathy and positive regard for self and others. It encourages us to train our hearts and minds to stay open and offer our best to others.  Growing our understanding of difference, attending to small ways to connect with others, developing our own inner resource to be of service are some of the habits of this literacy.
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Reframing Reality: Appreciative Ways to Shift Perspective – PS98

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This literacy opens us up to our own frames (perspectives) on the world. As we widen our frames, we begin to understand and appreciate the frames of others. Having this literacy to frame and reframe enables us to shift perspective and opens us to possibilities and solutions we may never have even considered if we stayed comfortable with our blinkers on within our existing frames, which may be keeping us very small.