Empowering environment/ Co-creative partnership

Thuesday, November 28^th, afternoon

If you were asked to create an empowering environment to work in a co-creative partnership on all sorts personal Development issues – what would be the important components/ principles of setting an appropriate group climate?

The most important, collected and reformulated in the plenary:

• Be aware of different experiences in the group - use these experiences!
• Trainers should allow themselves to be themselves
• Participation
• Short(er) sentences
• Explore questions that matter most
• Be open for feed-back and criticism from each other (learning atmosphere)
• To ensure that subject matter is of interest to everyone
• Being present (physically + mentally)
• Have time for reflection at individual + group level
• Create a trusting, secure environment where confidentiality is important
• Using a positive affirmative language
• Create time for ease + relaxed in an atmosphere of love, peace + understanding
• Clarify the roles, responsibilities, limits of the partners in the co-creative process
• Challenge

The full collection of the four small groups:

• Clear invitation + opportunity for feedback
• Explore questions that matter the most
• Create the active space (meditation/ relaxation/ sport … corner)
• Challenge people by alternative ways of working
• Respect of different needs of participants
• Being present
• As a trainer be a participant/ person

• Shorter questions
• Good integration
• Trust/ security
  confidence/ confidelity
• Enough sleep/ tea/ coffee & cookies
• Clear rules/ methods - set borders/ limits
• Clear aims
• Clear roles/ responsibilities
• Activities in small groups
• Postitive Language
  - positive feedback - strengthening
• Being open (trainer as a model)
• Chemistry works

• Exchange of experiences
• New provocative perspectives on well known topics/ issues/ situations
• Time for self reflection and share self-reflection
• Participation (ownership, decisions, …)
• Small input exercises to push/ get into different aspects of the topic
• Provokant inputs
• Ambience of acceptance
• Different environments/ places
• Different constellations
• Hot chocolate
• No mobile-phones
• Cold shower
• Hot water
• Fresh air
• Sun
• Fun
• Games
• Music
• Dancing
• Good food
• Feedback between all group-members
• Different methods & materials - theatre, …
• Continuesly evaluation of the process
• Kind of supervision/ overlook/ overview
• The need to feel the interest of all group-members
• Space for individuality – to be like you are
• Breaks

• Aware of different exp. (experiences expectations expertise, … ?)
• Look for dialog in informal times
• Reflecting individual and group level
• Atmosphere of love, peace and understanding
• Trying methods and evaluating them
• Open with/ for critics feedback (to feel the way, breeze)
• Using experts
• To find compromise
• Participation
• Active listening
• To use different methods
• Take it easy and relax
• Trying methods and evaluating them
• Reacting to needs in issues
• To answer needs of people
• Support each other