Finding Your Inner Resources- Systemic Awareness

STAFF ONLY DAY 2021

Finding Your Inner Resources- An introduction to Systemic Awareness

Looking at everyone as part of a system- some cultures do this more by default

We aren’t ever really an individual- Families and workplaces, clubs, teams…... have rules

In every system , the place you have in it has an impact- 

For example if you are the eldest child in a family generally this means you are looked on for leadership, for responsibilities etc for example……..

When you take on a role in any workplace you have a place in a system- and this place has an impact. 

Examples

Task

Get into pairs

Introduce self as part of 2 systems and the impact it had on you

Think about the place in each system…….

Link between place and impact it has………..

FEEDBACK- What did you notice? What thoughts came up?

We are all impacted by things but we often think as an individual, especially under stress……

TRY- a coaching session- thinking everyone brings everything else with them

TAKING a broader view, can’t be ignored

TODAY WE WILL USE  metaphor as it engages the whole brain , the more creative parts of the brain and focuses on images/ feelings and not storytelling

Focus on the tail feathers of a Bird of Paradise!

Everyone has their own tail that influences behaviour, choices…...etc

TODAY GO SLOW/ SIT IN THE NOT KNOWING

Think about a specific situation or issue that you will use as you build the tail feathers in your bird

These tail feathers give you strength and will help you in this situation, every feather is a resource that can help you in this situation, think of all the many systems, the impact, the experiences that can help you

PAIRS/ OWN BIRD ask light questions…...

Is there a feather you feel like adding- symbol, colour etc

Place it where it feels true

What do you notice about your first tail feather

If you could imagine another Tail feather, a person, an experience, anything at all what might it be?

What do you notice about where you have placed your tail feather?

I’m noticing that you……

What do you notice with them all together?

Is this a new insight?

Is there one that bridges the others?

Is that enough….?

GO SLOW

BE DELIBERATE

DON’T BE DRAWN INTO THEIR STORY - you don’t need to know!

LIGHTLY FACILITATED

Conclude