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Growing Ideas & Taking Action to Create Shifts ... in Real-Time

By:

Yabome Gilpin-Jackson

A tropical beach vacation?

An experience-based destination?

Adaptive Action

Transform-in-Action

Realtime?

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Adaptive Action

Getting unstuck in complexity

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Complex Adaptive System

Agents interact

Those system-wide patterns, in turn, influence the behaviors of the agents

System-wide patterns emerge

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Sticky Issue

No single solution

Many causes, many responses

Perspective matters

Answer depends on how you ask the question

Never repeats, but never disappears

No best practice—only innovation

Examples?

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Your Sticky Issue . . .

Challenges old assumptions

Won’t stay solved

Is too big to think of all at one time

Has too many pieces to manage

Involves massive interdependencies

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Share Your Sticky Issue

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Where is YOUR STICKY ISSUE?

Boundaries Closed Open

Factors Limited & known Unlimited &

unknown

Relationships Simple & stable Many & shifting

Speed Fast & constant Faster &

accelerating

Future Like the past Uncertain

Players Few & familiar Many & transient

Rules Clear & unchanging Fuzzy & emergent

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So what?

Now what?

What? Act with courage

to make a

difference

Adaptive Action: Find your next wise action

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Transform-in-Action

Using resonance for difficult decision-making

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of what Story am I a part?

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TransformInAction

What is my

interior state about

this?

What

action is needed now?

What needs to be

transformed?

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Resonance Moment(s)

Gilpin-Jackson, 2014

1. Remembrance from childhood, past or recent past to a person, a thing…

2. Deeply connects you to and signifies your organizational and life purpose

3. A trigger with the quality of nostalgia

4. Emotional experience

5. Emerges from events with positive /happy &/or negative /sad attributions

6. Provokes insight /Precedes deliberate cognitive process toward transformation

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stories of resonance...

what is a story (remembrance from childhood or recent past – to a person, a thing, a trigger with the quality of nostalgia) that deeply connects you to your work and purpose in healthcare?

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unpacking your resonance stories

1. What stood out for you?

2. Why did your resonance story reconnect you to?

Storytelling and meaning-making

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TransformInAction

What is my

interior state about

this?

What

action is needed now?

What needs to be

transformed?

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Adaptive Action + Transform-In-Action

What is my

interior state about this?

What action is needed now?

What needs to be

transformed?

So what?

Now what?

What?

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How will you apply what you have learned?

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Impact…in a word…

Closure