This week, we discussed how leaders represent the various fields of interaction. Now, we will turn our microscope onto our own thinking and behavior. Remember: “The way I attend shapes my social reality” and “The attention I convey is the energy that I create.” What energy does your social interaction generate?
- Throughout a 48-hour period, journal how you are attentive when listening (p. 41). During the day, log encounters you have with others. Note what you hear and what you think while you are listening. Step outside of your body and watch how you think, listen, and interact. Log what you see and hear.
- Then, later in the day, when all is quiet and you can reflect, consider what type of attention you display during social interactions. What form of energy are you putting into the world? Ponder your discovery.
- Then, begin an active exercise of Silsbee’s four core practices and state-shifting practices throughout the week (pp. 163-165; 180-186). During the following days’ interactions, how might you enlist these four practices to curb your attention and reactions? Reflect on the following questions:
- How are you escaping being “bound up in reactivity” (Silsbee, p. 173)? Note your internal monologue, the regulation of your thinking, emotions, and behavior.
- How are you disentangling and decoupling yourself from the context (Silsbee) while at the same time influencing its reshaping (Scharmer) and being a part of the future (Silsbee)?
- What does a generative field experience (Scharmer) look like for you? Do you see the emergence of an organizing principle (Silsbee, p.199)?
- How will you attempt to return to this generative state (Scharmer)?
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