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How we show up in a collective – with the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors we bring – has real impacts on that collective and collaboration within it. Our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors reflect how we understand and operate in the world, whether we are conscious of it or not. Without a solid understanding of how we operate in the world, how that manifests in different situations and why, we can inadvertently limit or even harm the collectives we join. Alternatively, when we show up thoughtfully, intentionally, and self-aware, we can help foster positive, healthy dynamics.
In this webinar, Kerstin Tebbe, Founder of Collective Mind and webinar series co-hosts Marta Ceroni (Academy for Systems Change) and Russ Gaskin (CoCreative) invite us to consider this connection between our self-awareness and how we show up in collectives. The event focuses on introspection for self-knowledge as a key pathway for interacting in healthy, effective ways in the groups and collectives we participate in. Reflect on relevant personal experiences and think about building our introspection muscles to increase self-awareness and interact more effectively in collectives.
We are grateful to Kerstin for leading this engaging and reflective conversation, for sharing her own experience and challenges related to this inquiry, and to Collective Mind for contributing to collective well-being through the many ways they work to improve the practice and impact of networks.
Speaker: Kerstin Tebbe
Co-Hosts: Marta Ceroni, Russ Gaskin, Maricela Wexler
Download the slide deck we used in this session. We also invite you to explore these links to learn more:
Read Kerstin Tebbe's recent blog post "Cultivating self-awareness for collective well-being in our networks."
Donella Meadows Archives: January 14, 1996 entry includes an example story from her experience of a meeting that went terribly and a meeting that went very well, and the difference, according to her, was that the second was made up of people who were more versed in the knowledge of their inner selves.
Choice Awareness / Attribution Framework (slide 11): Permission granted by Edith Whitfield Seashore. When using this framework, keep a systems view – it’s not all about personal responsibility or blaming the individual - while also understanding where there is individual choice within a system.
Awareness Based Leadership: free resource from CoCreative.
Kerstin Tebbe, Founder
Kerstin is focused on fostering effective collective action to solve complex problems. She has 20 years of experience supporting networks and multi-stakeholder collaboration. Her passion for networks was ignited by many years working on the staff of a global network and furthered by extensive independent study and research on networks. As a consultant, advisor, and thought partner, Kerstin supports networks and multi-stakeholder initiatives around the world with strategy development, network assessment and evaluation, design and organizational review, convening, fundraising, capacity building, and network strengthening.
The Well-Being for All Webinar Series: A Shared Inquiry into Well-Being in Systems and Ourselves. Co-hosted by the Academy for Systems Change and CoCreative