Archive for category: Activism

Stuckness (Nathan Bragg)

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Have you ever felt “stuck” or “blocked” when facing a particular issue or challenge?

This workshop uses image games and engages group intelligence to gently define challenges and offer possible solutions. “Stuckness” can be examined for individuals or for large groups of people. While similar to Image Conversation, the Stuckness workshop offers participants the opportunity to go deeper into the examination of a particular challenge.

Stuckness participants will:

  • practice creating images to illustrate a problem or challenge
  • help hold space for deep examination of challenges illustrated
  • practice creating images to illustrate a solution or desired outcome
  • practice achieving group consensus non-verbally
  • learn to visualize the practical and emotional steps it takes to go from thorny problem to best resolution.

This workshop is especially useful in team building and promoting team problem-solving.

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Firewalking for a strong community spirit (Jutta Goldammer)

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Firewalking combines a festive atmosphere with personal and collective empowerment. It is ideal as a community building event strengthening the common vision and purpose. You’ll be thoroughly prepared mentally and physically in order to be able to safely walk over 400-600 °C hot glowing coals. You’ll be astonished to see how powerful you can be as collective in which each individual has connected to their purpose and experienced the full support of the whole group.

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Team Discovery (Nathan Bragg)

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Who is your team? What are their strengths? Where do they feel weakest or in need of improvement? Are they happy with the workload, or are they feeling over-burdened? How about you?

This workshop finds a non-threatening way to answer those questions and more.

The participants will:

  • learn the power of making interactive non-verbal polls
  • quickly learn the strengths of and challenges faced by teammates and how they feel about those attributes
  • potentially discover their own strengths and weaknesses and how they feel about those attributes

Warning: Make sure to play Icebreaker games (and perhaps also go through the Ice-Breaker workshop) beforehand to build trust among teammates. Trust is key here because the best first question may be: “I feel safe expressing my truth in this space.”

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Image Conversation (Nathan Bragg)

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Judgment is inherent in language. Both spoken and written language try to reduce complex ideas into something quickly digestible; a side effect is that language can feel like accusation: “Have you tried this…?” Or “This is how WE do it.” This sort of communication is subtly violent and often drives a wedge between people, separating “Us” into “Us/Them” groups. This violence is stripped away when we communicate through images.

Participants in this workshop will practice making images using their own bodies (and/or using objects in the room); they will be asked to “Show, don’t tell.” They also will also practice “listening” with their eyes; this is important because watchers must provide the words, if there are any to be said.

The participants will:

  • practice creating images to illustrate a problem or challenge
  • practice creating images to illustrate a solution or desired outcome
  • practice achieving group consensus non-verbally
  • learn to visualize the practical and emotional steps it takes to go from thorny problem to best resolution.

This workshop is especially useful in team building and promoting team problem-solving.

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