The "formula" for change support?!

Cosima Laube // respectAndAdapt.rocks
The Formula
for Change support?!
1st Keynote @ ONLINE Women in Agile EU 2020
Supporting People through Change

Cosima Laube // respectAndAdapt.rocks #WiAEU2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHDNfoB_hCw

Here I showed some screenshots of the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHDNfoB_hCw)
They are not included in the PDF because of copyright.
The key messages of the screenshots in on slide 5.

Crisis and Change

(sometimes) people...
● run around headlessly
● use tools to handle the crisis
● break things
● get hurt and hurt others
and there is...
● a lot happening all at once
● a lot of “noise” (versus: clear signals)
When there’s a Crisis...
Here I showed two screenshots of the
video
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH
DNfoB_hCw)
They are not included in the PDF
because of copyright.
The key messages are written on the
left hand side on this slide.

… things get (suddenly) different:
● lots of uncertainty
● appears or IS threatening
And: the need for changes arises.
When there’s a Crisis...
https://unsplash.com/photos/Z9arfr0f248

e.g.
● over-action or numbing
● trying to “get back” to before
● mitigate “unwanted” things
● uncover new stuff
● respecting change
● inspect & adapt
● ...
… SOME kind of change handling follows
https://unsplash.com/photos/mG28olYFgHI

Supporting
women, diversity, people
through change

https://www.agilealliance.org/supporting-people-through-change/

Supporting
people...
… through change
1. make change handling
a “normal thing”

Supporting
people...
… through change
✓ make change handling
a “normal thing”
1. support YOUR SELF first
2. (implicity) skill-up
3. support OTHERS (better)

https://unsplash.com/photos/Y_kIawhP8gc

_Support_
Yourself_
_Skill-Up_ _Support_
Others_

The formula

Be present
Be open
Do what matters

(Be)²Do

Being present

Wirbelwind
Support Others

The “too much” & “too little” cocktail
● too many “pulls”
● too many wonderful opportunities to do… to support others
● too much passion
● too little rest
● too little presence moments
● too few “NOs” to more work
Support Others
https://unsplash.com/photos/eJ9mX6yEbAw

Change willingness
is worthless
if change capacity
is depleted
https://unsplash.com/photos/Z9arfr0f248

Being present practises (1)
Consciously...
★ breathing
★ feeling the soles of your feet
(or the palms of your hands)
★ savouring a hot beverage
→ VAKOG (e.g. see, feel, smell)
Support Yourself
& Skill-Up

“brushing
your
sanity”
Everyday occasions:
★ breathing
★ feeling the body
○ soles, palms, but
★ savouring
○ beverages, food
○ sunlight
Support Yourself
& Skill-Up

Journaling
Supports you with:
★ keeping track
(work, habits, etc.)
★ retroflecting on change work
★ staying present
★ becoming present again
Tipp: Do it (almost) daily.
Support Yourself
& Skill-Up

Being open & letting go

Support Others
we are all
“equal”
thinking

-“We do NOT learn from experience...-
-we learn from reflecting-
-on experience.” [John Dewey, educationist]-
source:https://unsplash.com/

Missed a chance to support diversity...
everyone had biases
huge amount of unawareness
too much “to do”
too little time & energy to spend
Support Others

Supporting
openness
Useful skill-up areas
● learn about biases
→ increases awareness
● truly truly truly listen
○ preferably to those folks
who are NOT like you
○ actively go and search for them!
○ practise open-minded listening
Skill-Up

being open
is a constant
learning process

be kind
to yourself and others
someone “messed up”?
try again, do one step better...

Support Yourself

Supporting
“letting go”
a mind & body practise
Support Yourself
& Skill-Up

Supporting
“letting go”
a mind & body practise
Write a limiting belief (or problem)
on a sheet of paper. Then:
1. put it in front of your face
2. sloooowly move it away
3. observe what’s happening
⇒ transition from narrow perspectives
to more, wider headspace (again)
Support Yourself
& Skill-Up

_“We cannot solve problems_
_with the same thinking we used_
_when we created them.”__[Einstein]_
https://unsplash.com/photos/YU81y4-x0Bw

Doing what matters

source:https://unsplash.com/photos/GSeCPc4q-7k

breathing
practise
listening
limiting beliefs
exercise
perspective changemindful moments
reducing bias

Doing what
matters to YOU

It’s about values… YOUR values (1)
Uncovering your own values
and how to live up to them sounds simple
- yet it is not always so easy:
● societal influence
● external “forces” / context
● energy level ( → hamster wheel)
● ...
Support Yourself
& SkillUp

It’s about values… YOUR values (2)
Our actions are way more sustainable (for ourselves and for others)
if we “do stuff” coherent to OUR values.
Support Others
(& Yourself)

Uncovering
your values...
… to do what matters to YOU
Some recommendations:
★ Core Values exercise
by Deborah Hartmann Preuss
https://abiggergame.today/bigger-on-the-inside/
★ Using (parts of) the ACT diary
by Dr. Nic Hooper & Dr. Brown
https://www.pavpub.com/mental-health/well-being/act-diary
Support Yourself
& Skill-Up

Personal Growth
&
Courage

Connection &
Authenticity

Support yourself first
and THEN other people
through change

Supporting
Human
Beings
… through change
✓ see change as a “normal thing”
✓ support OURSELVES first
⇒ (implicity) skill-up
⇒ support OTHERS (better)

(Be)²Do
the Minion Formula
for Change Support

YOUR next step?

Three breaths

Be present

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