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5/20/2014 Sound leadership: Community, curriculum and conversation Mike Askew AP Conference, Singapore 7 May 2014 1 5/20/2014 A warm greeting An icy stare The heat of The cold shoulder attraction Language as conduit metaphor Words

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Sound leadership: Community, curriculum and conversation

Mike Askew AP Conference, Singapore 7 May 2014

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A warm greeting The heat of attraction An icy stare The cold shoulder Language as conduit metaphor

Words are OBJECTS Communication is SENDING

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Teaching and learning metaphors

  • Teaching as delivery
  • Teaching as journey
  • Learning as discovery
  • Learning as constructing

Embodied cognition

Wilson (2002) suggests that there are at least six different views of embodied cognition, one

  • f which is that ‘off-line’ cognition is body

based. “Human cognition, rather than being centralized, abstract, and sharply distinct from peripheral input and output modules, may instead have deep roots in sensorimotor processing.”

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Strong embodiment

“One of the great findings of cognitive science is that our ideas are shaped by our bodily experiences–not in any simpleminded

  • ne-to-one way but indirectly, through the

grounding of our entire conceptual system in everyday life” Lakoff & Núñez, 2000

Conference

Confer: “To bring together, compare, consult, deliberate, talk over.’

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Leadership metaphors

How do you talk about what do leaders do? What metaphors do you use? Turn and talk (3 minutes)

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Goals

  • Goal post image

Goals

Targets

  • IMage

Targets

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On track

On track

Logic of If – Then

If - then

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Engineered Quantifiable Predictable Controllable

Clockw ise

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It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the

  • despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the

  • despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

Emergent

Emergent Meanings Values Relationships

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Organic Organic

Grow ing self, grow ing others, grow ing community

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Conditions for emergence

  • Diversity
  • Redundancy
  • Enabling constraints
  • Neighbour interactions
  • Distributed control

Shift from a focus on things to a focus on relationships

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Relational leadership

  • Inclusive
  • Empowering
  • Purposeful
  • Ethical
  • Process-oriented

Vision

Vision

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Metaphors

  • Visual metaphors divide and exclude
  • Auditory metaphors are inclusive

Discussion Discus: to throw

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Discussion

  • David Bohm likened discussion to

throwing opinions back and forth in an attempt to convince each other of the rightness of a particular position. Thus the whole view is often fragmented and shattered into many pieces. Dialogue – “dia” and “logos” “through meaning”

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Dialogue requires us to "hold our positions more lightly”. – David Bohm

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Listening

Listening is ‘fundamentally about being in relationship to another and through this relationship supporting change or transformation.’ – Katherine Shultz

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“It is impossible to know reality for the same reason that makes it impossible to sing potatoes; they may be grown, or pulled, or eaten, but not sung. Reality has to be ‘been’: there should be a transitive verb ‘to be’ expressly for use with the term ‘reality’.” Bion (1965/1983) Transformations

Is there a leadership ‘gym’?

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Improv

Structure Freedom

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Control and certainty

‘Relies on … “or” thinking. This built in logic, … divides everything sharply into two classes: good or bad, right or wrong, one of us or one of them. Such logic tends to disregard a method like improvisation– certain, rational knowledge is what counts, ergo any method that does not produce it is useless.’

Improvisation

‘is based on “and” thinking. The practices encourage you to notice, accept and work with what is already there, not to evaluate or block it. Thus improvisational practice is itself a ‘yes and …’ It accepts and adds to what you already know, rather than replacing it; it is a complement, not an alternative.’

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Make your partner look good

One word at a time story

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Reflect

  • How do you feel?
  • What happened?
  • What did you learn?
  • How does this relate to the real world?

‘Being present, w hether w ith children, w ith friends, or even w ith oneself, is alw ays hard

  • work. But isn’t this

attentiveness – the feeling that someone is trying to think about us – something w e w ant more than praise?’

  • Stephen Grosz
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Everything is an offer

Yes, but

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Yes, and Reflect

  • How do you feel?
  • What happened?
  • What did you learn?
  • How does this relate to the real world?
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The most precious gift w e can offer is our presence. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Picture credits

  • All photographs used under creative commons license and

downloaded from www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

  • Taps: Karen
  • Percussion: Let ideas compete
  • Target: vizzzual.com
  • Goal: Swen_Peter Ekkebus
  • Vision: Joe Dyndale
  • Billiards: Usodesina
  • Cogs: Arthur John Picton
  • Garden: UKGardenphotos
  • Choir: Andrew Magill
  • Conversation: Cliff