{"id":75,"date":"2008-01-16T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T03:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-01-25T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T02:00:30","slug":"gendlins-focusing-and-collaborative-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/gendlins-focusing-and-collaborative-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"GENDLIN’S FOCUSING AND COLLABORATIVE DECISION MAKING"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instant “Ahah!”s #5:\u00a0 Collaborative Decision Making<\/strong><\/p>\n

Free Downloads:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAjas\u201d Instantaneos Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SHARING LEADERSHIP AND IMPASSE RESOLUTION<\/strong>
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\nFrom Dr. McGuire’s article, “Collaborative Edge Decision Making<\/a>“:
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\n“5. Shared Leadership Component at Decision Making Meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rather than depending upon the skill of a naturally talented chairperson, being held captive by the caprice of a bad one, or suffering from the chaos and anarchy of “the leaderless group,” in the Collaborative Edge Decision Making method , the skill of leadership is broken down into a number of tasks which are then assigned to various group members. No one person carries the onus of staying on top of all aspects of the task, and all group members come to feel responsible for contributing to good group process.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The five task roles can be rotated among group members from meeting to meeting, or, with group agreement, certain members can specialize in a particular task. In a more hierarchical setting, the supervisor or coordinator may take the role of agenda keeper each meeting. In a different group, a person too shy to be process monitor may be a very assertive time-keeper, and so on. However, in general, it is a good idea to keep rotating the roles in order to insure equality of ownership and responsibility.\u00a0 As everyone shares the tasks involved in group leadership,\u00a0 everyone will also take ownership of the group process and more actively participate in decision making.<\/p>\n

6. Creative Edge Impasse Resolution Component<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the Creating At The Edge principles, the solutions to problems are implicit in the intuitive “feel of the whole thing,” the Creative Edge. Similarly, conflicts and arguments hold within them important information for decision making, accessed through the Creative Edge “intuitions” of the participants.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening are the Core Skills for articulating innovative solutions from the Creative Edge.\u00a0 So, when decision making breaks down at meetings, the way out of the impasse can be found through turning to a variety of approaches which use the Listening and Focusing skills and the Interpersonal Focusing method to facilitate the creation of new solutions, and Paradigm Shifts, out of the Creative Edge intuitions of participants.”<\/p>\n

For a complete explanation of the theory behind access to The Creative Edge and innovative decision making, you can download Dr. McGuire’s comprehensive article, “Collaborative Edge Decision Making Method,<\/a> ” . As a bonus, the Appendix of this article includes Handouts you can use at actual meetings, one for each role in Shared Leadership.
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\nReread the simple <\/strong>“How To’s For Groups”<\/strong><\/a> (Instant “Ahah!” #5 in Mini-Manual). They define the five roles in Shared Leadership and various Listening\/Focusing methods for Impasse resolution. The “How To’s” arose from my dissertation research, Listening and Interruptions in Task-Oriented Groups<\/a>, University of Chicago, 1977, with Eugene Gendlin, creator of Focusing (Focusing, Bantam, 1981, 1984) as advisor.
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\nOver these four weeks, we are looking at incorporating the procedures into groups that you belong to:
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\n\u00a0What are the plusses and minuses of these meetings?
\n\u00a0What is the “whole body feel” of being at these meetings?
\n\u00a0Do people interrupt each other?
\n\u00a0Are conflicts polarized and never changing?
\n\u00a0Do people feel free to share their negative feelings about a decision?
\n\u00a0Does a minority do all the talking?
\n\u00a0Is there a chance to pause to formulate a new but vague idea?
\n\u00a0Can you imagine asking the group to try out the Shared Leadership model in Instant “Ahah!” #5?
\n\u00a0Can you imagine incorporating Listening and Focusing skills into these meetings? What would the difference be?<\/p>\n

Learn more<\/strong> about Intuitive Focusing<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and Focused Listening<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 at Creative Edge Focusing\u2019s website, filled with free downloads on creativity, spirituality, collaborative thinking, parenting, innovation in business, and many other aspects of application of Focusing and Listening skills at home, at work, in your community, and globally.<\/p>\n

Creative Edge Focusing (<\/strong>www.cefocusing.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a> )<\/strong> teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing<\/span><\/a> and Focused Listening<\/span><\/a>, which can be applied at home and at work through The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based upon Gendlin\u2019s Experiential Focusing (<\/strong>www.focusing.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a> )\u00a0and Rogers\u2019 Empathic Listening,<\/strong> our website is packed with Free Resources and instructions in these basic self-help skills. Learn\u00a0how to build Support Groups<\/span><\/a>, Conscious Relationships<\/span><\/a>, and Creative Edge Organizations <\/span><\/a>based upon these basic skills of emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n

You can try out <\/strong>\u201cFocusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to subscribe to\u00a0Creative Edge Focusing(TM)\u2019s \u00a0Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d e-newsletter and get the latest exercises first!!!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Today\u2019s blog is part of the year-long e-course offered through the Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d e-newsletter.<\/p>\n

Click here for a free Intuitive Focusing Mini-Course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for a free Focused Listening Mini-Course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0See\u00a0Core Concept: Conflict Resolution<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to find a complete mini-course on Interpersonal Focusing and Conflict Resolution, including Rosenberg\u2019s Non-Violent Communication, Blanchard\u2019s \u201cOne Minute Apology,\u201d Patricia Evan\u2019s books on Verbally Abuse and Controlling Relationships, McMahon\u2019s Beyond The Myth Of Dominance, <\/em>and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See Core Concept: Intimate Relationship<\/span><\/a> to find a complete mini-course on increasing intimacy and sexuality, including the \u201cSharing Your Day\u201d exercise, Listening\/Focusing Partnerships for The Way of Relationship, untangling and equalizing desire, tantric sexuality, and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Download complete Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual, in <\/strong>English<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <\/strong>Spanish<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, from CEF Website, or download from links at top of this blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find links to <\/strong>free articles, personality tests, multi-media\u00a0Self-Help training, Classes and workshops<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Kathy McGuire<\/span><\/a>, Director<\/p>\n

Creative Edge Focusing (TM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

www.cefocusing.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The site of new insights and creative solutions is at the edge of what is already known. This edge, The Creative Edge, holds implicit within it all past and future knowing about the problem, more than could ever be put into words in a linear way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Collaborative Edge Decision Making makes space for access to right-brain, intuitive, pre-verbal creativity by stopping interruptions and argument, replacing them with Focused Listening. Shared leadership equalizes power and responsibility. Concrete rules for groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,7,14,15,10,13,11],"tags":[740,170,741,749,190,160,187,191,744,54,745,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}