Welcome to the ninth newsletter from fireside.rs, ‘unlocking creative productivity by gathering humans effectively.’
Later this month I’ll be in Australia delivering fireside.rs workshops at University of Queensland and Hear & Say in Brisbane, then at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne. What a gift!
Having delivered five already, I’m starting to reflect on how these workshops are safe containers to shake off entrenched ideas of collaborative formats / discourse, whilst also providing an opportunity for rapid relational trust building through a unique experience.
Big words for: people have a positive time, think and want to do things differently plus find connection in a shared novel event.
And as we enter the final quarter of the year my thoughts go to closing off the ‘no-fee offer’ with some final workshops in Wellington / Auckland / Queenstown during November. Just need to find a host / venue / community who are interested in designing effective human gatherings.
If that sounds like you please do get in touch.
Until then, take care of yourselves and each other,
DK
fireside.rs Founder and Creative Gatherer
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Where we feature, celebrate and learn from those who craft spaces for humans to actively belong and be, introducing:
SHOW NOTES & PULL QUOTES
- Janine Sudbury LinkedIn
- Impact Leadership website
- Sudbury venue website
- Steve Hansen, former (2015 World Cup winning) All Black Coach video testimonial / Impact Leadership YouTube page with other testimonials
5.21 : “So while I was sort of, you know, faffing around opening the venue, I was also developing a leadership development program using horses as a training tool.”
7.35 : “…this way of working with horses takes the whole animal into consideration you’re really learning about the horse through being attentive and reading the horse and then adjusting what you do in order to bring out the best in your horse and thus make it safe to ride and safe to partner. So I’m sure you’re already seeing all of those parallels with the world of leadership.”
8.22 : “I teased out those principles and I created a framework for a leadership program. And it’s remarkable because it’s not classroom based and people actually have to step into the arena and I partner them up with a horse and then fireworks and magic and tears to begin with sometimes too.”
10.31 : “And the reason I like to use horses that have never been on this program is because I want it to be challenging. I want the horse and human to create their own connection. So I look at the horse’s energy and I look at the horse’s attitude and then I match similar horses.”
15.59 : “And this would be the sort of story I’ve seen so many times. And it’s so exciting because once you lose the fear, you can do anything. And her career went through the roof.”
20.18 : “But if somebody is asking the horse to stop at an arm’s length and then they take a step backwards as they’re asking the horse to stop, the horse thinks, you don’t really want me to stop and you don’t mean it. And the horse will just push them out of the way. Well, you know, this is giving the human some really startling feedback. I don’t believe you and you ain’t my leader.”
27.03 : “…the program isn’t about the horse. The horse is just a fantastic way for, you know, showing you what true leadership feels like and how it should feel and how it should feel exciting, confident, bold and fearless, but also warm, compassionate and empathetic. And how it feels when you get that balance and suddenly the horse will follow you anywhere. Wow, that’s a moment to be treasured. And then people take that feeling, they’ve built up that cell memory, they take it back to the workplace and then funnily enough, their careers take off.”
29.32 : “…so many people are working from home and i think that really alienates people, it makes it a lot harder to to lead when you’re not in the same room as people you know for me it’s all about watching being attentive listening, listening is very important and quite underrated.”
Podcast music attribution: All I Did Was Wait For You: The Upbeat and Positive Track for Podcast or YouTube by kjartan_abel — https://freesound.org/s/543781/ — License: Attribution 4.0
Some creativity, productivity and gathering related content for the brain / heart:
“A watermark is a visible mark embedded in a physical or digital medium to verify authenticity or assert ownership. A spymark is a hidden signal that makes your work traceable without your knowledge or consent.”
Spymarks, not Watermarks – brand
“The good news is that building a culture of trust is fairly simple. The bad news is that simple does not mean easy.”
Moving at the speed of trust — Joe Hopkirk Consulting & Coaching
Bastardica allows you to combine two fonts and create a whole new (mainly) awful looking one to download and use.
Small Town Zine Club is an online / browser-based app for creating zines and sharing them with the wider world for free.
Animaps creates a little video between points on the globe for creative use.
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