A Recipe For Sanity:
Developing Strategies to Help You Prosper in Turbulent Times

Topics, Exercises, and Agenda<< BACK

To help you see your challenges in a new light, I’ve structured this workshop around seven themes. The lecture, videos, discussion, and exercises will help you tailor this information to your particular needs.

• Looking at Life and Art; Not Life or Art
  • Discussion: Who are we and why are we here?
  • Video: Everyday Creativity by Dewitt Jones, National Geographic photographer
  • Exercise: Drawing your career map
    
    
• Demystifing Leadership
  • Lecture: Lessons from The Leadership Challenge
  • Group Exercise: What characterizes an effective leader?
  • Discussion: Leadership examples from the real world
    
    
• Considering the Myth of Multitasking
  • Discussion: The eternal paradox—time, cost, quality—pick two
  • Lecture: The power of mindfulness and revamping your to do list
  • Individual Exercise: Prioritizing your challenges using a paired-comparison matrix
  • Individual Exercise: Considering the outside of your box
    
    
• Building from Where You Are, With What You Have
  • Lecture: How our models of the world prevent us from finding a creative solutions
  • Discussion: How can we banish fear and unhealthy competitiveness?
  • Individual Exercise: Matching available resources to prioritized challenges
    
    
• Understanding the Nature of Commitment
  • Lecture: How to make commitments stick
  • Individual Exercise: Identifying commitments
    
    
• Reading Out Loud
  • Lecture: Merits and methods of giving and receiving constructive feedback
  • Group Exercise: Sharing our recipes with each other
    
    
• Returning to the Real World—Refreshed and With a New Perspective
  • Lecture: Risk taking in small bites
  • Resources: A review of the resource cards and the listserv
  • Group Exercise: Focusing on and appreciating what is possible

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