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Monday Monthly: Attention and Hope

 

With a cacophony of alarm clocks ringing, what are your inklings about the transformation efforts you are engaged in?

‘If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.’  Max Planck

How we frame our work means we notice different things (whilst missing others), means we hold different narratives about them (or have none) and use different language to describe them (or not, since they don’t exist!).

e.g. If we only frame our work in terms of reducing carbon emissions, what does this mean for urgent societal climate change adaption efforts?

In her recent blog, Kirstin writes:

As we look around, watch and listen to people, find our way through our own struggles about how best to respond to the emergency we are living through, it can feel impossible, futile even. Only when we locate today’s efforts in a wider frame over a longer time horizon - intentionally cultivating the qualities that we believe will be vital for moving through our increasingly turbulent future - do we begin to make better sense of things.

She then asks:

What would it be like, we wonder, if we not only all acted as though this is an emergency, but brought a different kind of attention to how we be in the world?

And

What is giving you hope, and which aspects of your leadership would benefit from a different kind of attention?

If you’re interested in exploring more, do read the blog, reflect on the questions, and then join us online for this small-group inquiry on Monday 18th November 4 -5 pm UK time, as ever with a practical ‘what does this mean for my leadership behaviour’ lens too!

Image: Manes Photo

 

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