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Nurturing your purpose I caught the tail end of this Hidden Brain episode, but what I heard has been rattling around in my head ever since. It's an episode devoted to Cultivating Your Purpose (with an emphasis on cultivating versus discovering). What stuck with me was the labeling
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Games for a Cause! So… a few months ago, I shared the Beautiful Trouble Strategy Card Deck. What I didn’t pause to do was look at the OTHER stuff offered by The TESA Collective (I should have paid more attention: TESA = The Toolbox for Eduction and Social Action 🤦♂️). Anyway,
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Topics are a wee bit more heady this week… Fewer pictures! 🤪 Beyond developed / developing Here’s an interesting request: Kate Raworth (author of Donut Economics—is seeking input on 4 labels. “To get beyond erroneous ‘developed / developing’ countries, we’re proposing new country clusters, in terms of their journey towards
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Digital Therapy While it's only a concept (?), there's a lot to like about this digital therapy project (designed for patients with psychosis). There's the design of the app, the evidence-based approach to therapy, and—of course—the accompanying physical cards. More detailed information and
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Board games solving real-world problems? Raising awareness of an issue is one thing, as is bringing about understanding. But to facilitate actual problem solving? YES! Hailey Campbell, a city climate adaptation specialist in Hawaii, is the person behind a pair of (yes, TWO!) board games to facilitate difficult conversations around
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Knowledge Structures Here's a great introduction to knowledge structures by Francis Miller. AKA, diagrams, canvases, frameworks, visual representations of thought… with a slight difference: The orientation to these visual representations is more cognitive in nature (how we think vs thinking made visual). Sidenote: I have a love/hate
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To Meet or Not to Meet In the ongoing “should we have a meeting, or not?” debates, I found this article (visual) on “Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication” to be a really well-considered perspective, looking at WHY people gather, and what is more (or less) difficult to do asynchronously. Task Management,
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The Agile Fluency® Game The Agile Fluency Game is a euro-style game that “authentically simulates 2.5 years (10 seasons) on a software development team” with the idea that “experiments in the game lead to new insights about your real-world options.” Sign me up! Against personal narratives “Let’s ditch
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Assessing Autonomy “Dear Executive: Why don’t people act? This is why no one is stepping up.” I’ve been on both side of this autonomy discussion; it’s not as simple as it is often framed. Great question, with solid, honest answers. LotR Architecture I kind of love this
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A social activism card deck? A social activism card deck and game? (6 games, actually!) The Beautiful Trouble card deck is pitched as a collection of “key strategies and tactics that have inspired centuries of people-powered victories… now in a deck of 100+ cards that you can play!” I'
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Programmable sketches? Here's a provocation for you: ‘What would be possible if hand-drawn sketches were programmable like spreadsheets?’ So. Much. This. Before getting to the good (new) stuff, the first 1/3 of this article recaps the conceptual foundations upon which this work is build (Bret Vector and
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Psychological Safety Gaps I love the framing of these as psychological safety gaps (from trainer, coach, & facilitator John Schrag). I’ve recently become fascinated with the phenomenon of “safety gaps” – teams where psychological safety is taken very seriously; where the team leaders seem to be trying to do the