{"id":3046,"date":"2021-10-22T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2021-10-22T09:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T09:51:47","slug":"using-the-wisdom-of-rehearsal-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/using-the-wisdom-of-rehearsal-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the wisdom of rehearsal space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnnie recently wrote a piece for Startups Magazine:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/startupsmagazine.co.uk\/article-using-wisdom-theatre-give-better-performances-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Using the wisdom of theatre to give better performances at work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we think our work has to result in a definitive performance we put everyone under pressure which\u00a0stifles creativity. What if we see ourselves and those we work with as being in a rehearsal space? This can reduce performance anxiety. It encourages flexibility, a willingness to change course easily and to be affected by each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to write recipes and come up with lists of things-to-do when training facilitators, but we find some of the most exciting learning happens when we try things out.<\/p>\n<p>For example, we use a process called Groundhog for exploring how to have difficult conversations. We get real world examples of difficult conversations from participants.<\/p>\n<p>Then we aim to get the single most provocative statement the challenging person says. (&#8220;I thought you were an agile coach!&#8221; &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t want to go to a breakout group!&#8221;) and then get everyone to try out 20 or 30 quite different ways of responding. Experimenting with lots of different ways to respond stop us getting stuck in analysis &#8211; and generates surprising insights that would not happen if we stuck to a set of rules.<\/p>\n<p>A rehearsal mindset creates a lot more possibilities in meetings &#8211; and empowers participants to shape what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnnie recently wrote a piece for Startups Magazine:\u00a0Using the wisdom of theatre to give better performances at work. &#8220;If we think our work has to result in a definitive performance we put everyone under pressure which\u00a0stifles creativity. What if we see ourselves and those we work with as being in a rehearsal space? This can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3048,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions\/3048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creativefacilitation.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}