success by challenging assumptions (part i)
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Part one of a two part workshop on Creating Success by Challenging Assumptions with Stephanie Nestlerode, Omega Point International, Inc. and LaDonna Coy, Learning for Change, Inc. for the Texas SPF SIG community grantees. All materials are located at http://bit.ly/xQSu9TRANSCRIPT
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Creating Success by Learning to
Challenge Assumptions
October 15, 2009
Stephanie Nestlerode LaDonna Coy
Omega Point International, Inc. Learning for Change, Inc.
LaDonna CoyMHR, CPS, CDLAPrimary Prevention Capacity building withSocial media and liveVirtual Learning/TrainingInteractionarssm
Collaborative Partners: -Kansas AAPS-Kansas Prevention Network & SPF SIG Sector Network -Kansas Family Partnership-Eagle Ridge Institute -CADCA-Paxis, Inc-Safe & Caring Schools-Collaborative Conversations -Omega Point International, Inc.-ODMHSAS -MACMHB-MASACA
The surest way to provoke the imagination is to seek out environments you have no experience with.
--author unknown
Strategic Planner Primary Prevention Capacity Building Technical Assistance Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Prevention:Texas, Colorado, West Virginia, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, California, and Nevada
Stephanie Nestlerode, MSW
“The future we create is the legacy we leave our children.”
Getting Everyone’s Voice into the Room
NameOrganizationLocation
Agenda
11:00-1:00 • Lunch, Homework & Coaching
1:00-2:30• Homework Debrief • The Rule of Six• The Chicken Scratch Path• Social Media exploration/implications• Closing Reflections
9:30-11:00Welcome & Getting Started• The Secret to Out-of-the-Box Thinking• Foundational Tools
The Ladder of Inference
Objectives• Provide foundational tools for
challenging assumptions • Provide an opportunity to apply the
tools to each person’s unique circumstances
• Apply foundational tools to our assumptions about social media
• Identify ways to shift our conversations
Our Tool Today ContentWho’s here?
Type hereDiscussion Area
Emoticons!
Chat Poll
What is one word that captures how you are today?
Out of the Box
Thinking
Polling + chat
Debrief (why?)Why do the
numbers look like they do?
What PROMOTES it?
What STIFLES it?
The Secrets
to
Out of the Box
Thinking
Name
the
Box!
What
BOX
are
YOU
in?
A Box we Live in
An ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
Not everyone thinks this way!
Recognize this can feel scary!
Create a safe container for exploration
Invite
OTHERS
to Explore the Box
Multiple Points of View
Explore
All Angles
Integrate
ALL
Views
Both/And
Thinking
The First, grasping an ear, “It is a large rough thing,
wide and broad, like a rug.”
The Second, holding the trunk, “I have the real facts. It is a straight and hollow pipe.”
The Third, touching a front leg, “It is mighty and firm, like a pillar.”
PENCIL EXERCISE
Leveraging Diversity with The Ladder of Inference
A tool for discovering
how people
think and why they think the way they do
You must go below the surface
The Ladder
of Inference
Take Action
Actual Events
The Ladder
of Inference
Adopt Beliefs
Take Action
Actual Events
The Ladder
of Inference
Adopt Beliefs
Select Data
R
E
F L
L O
E O
X P
I
V
E
Take Action
Actual Events
Environmental Example
Once we start worrying about the polar bears in the artic,
We notice stories everywhere
Social Example
Once we become grandparents,
we see young
children everywhere
Every Day Example
Once we decide to
buy a certain kind
of car,
We notice them
everywhere
Bug is the only car for me
The quality will be better than the first time I bought one
If it looks good, it will drive well
Salesman
Consumer Reports
Neighbors & Friends
Mechanic Timely??
None
Adopt Beliefs
Select Data
Make Assumptions
Take Action
DATA
ASSUMPTIONS
BELIEFS
TAKE ACTION
Ladder of Inference Exercise
Polls about how meeting time is INVESTED
Source: margaret anne clarke
What are the
Implications
of the
survey results?
Underage Drinking
What are the divergent points of view?
Sharing your thinking is a giftThat must be
UNPACKED to be truly
Useful
Teenagers
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
Parents
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
School Teachers
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
Police
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
Community Members
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
Small Business Owners
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
Large Beer Producers
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
Prevention Volunteers and Professionals
Beliefs?
Assumptions?
Data?
DATA
ASSUMPTIONS
BELIEFS
TAKE ACTION
Ladder of Inference Exercise
What assumptions are you making (underneath your beliefs)?
What are your strongest beliefs about what will reduce underage drinking in your community?
How have your personal experiences influenced your thinking? What other data relate to how you think about underage drinking?
Sample Ladder of Inference Exercise
Divide into small groups of four to six persons.
Every person will take a few moment to reflect IN SILENCE and then to write down their answers to three questions:
What is my strongest belief (a single belief) about the issue at hand?
What are my assumptions?
What are the data underneath my assumptions and beliefs?
Using a Talking Object, there will be three rounds of sharing.
Round One: Every person will share the strongest belief. Round Two: Every person will share assumptions. Round Three: Every person will share data.
Continue the conversation. What strikes you about the differences? The similarities?
Share each group’s observations with the larger group.
Identify shared themes and any differences that need to be explored further.
What topics or issues could benefit from a better understanding of
How might you add a little
to your meetings?
Adding consideration of:
ASSUMPTIONS
CREATING SHARED MEANING
DATA
Next Steps Create a plan
What topics need conversation?
How might you begin to gently inquire more deeply into how people think?
Each person will share when we return at 1 pm!
Call with questions during the break
Call LaDonna 918-473-6789
Call Stephanie 512-847-0410
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