I get so many awkward silences when I dig into what compromises and trade-offs have to be taken into account while prioritizing a portfolio of activities, features or projects. There's is a lot of magic thinking happening out there — "Let's commit to 100 projects even if we have the capacity for 50".
I don't remember where I read the term "goal attracting" as an alternative of "goal setting" but everything you shared here (the Boris workshop, Even Over statements) seems to be going towards creating "goal attractors" — So the best way to have good goals seems be to...not to set them!
I've been part of the Bento community for a while, first on Slack and then on Circle and participated as a group facilitator for six group sessions of their follow-along "Bento Season", where we explored in a group setting the individual usage of the Bento method.
Working with that group I realized that some of the contents of the Bento might be triggering and make some people uncomfortable: I've been both trusted and praised by the group with and for my facilitation, it's one of those tools that looks deceptively simple but requires a great deal of situational awareness and facilitation skills if it's to be used on an individual level.
Then Yancey (Stricker) called it quits and "froze" the community that then spinned off as a independent Discord community which I'm not active in (he then founded Metalabel, which I added to the are.na "ways of working on a weird/cool website" channel 🙂)
Bummer.
I never had the chance to use Bento with a team (for some of the reasons explained in that summary I wrote in 2020), but I recently inspired a group of local Boy Scouts leaders to use the Bento method for their annual planning meeting with hundreds of scouts (I should really ask them how did I go!).
I get so many awkward silences when I dig into what compromises and trade-offs have to be taken into account while prioritizing a portfolio of activities, features or projects. There's is a lot of magic thinking happening out there — "Let's commit to 100 projects even if we have the capacity for 50".
I don't remember where I read the term "goal attracting" as an alternative of "goal setting" but everything you shared here (the Boris workshop, Even Over statements) seems to be going towards creating "goal attractors" — So the best way to have good goals seems be to...not to set them!
Speaking of tools for creating goals attractors and evaluating tradeoffs, I found the Bento method quite interesting (https://bentoism.org/2-the-bento-method#36) which also offers a handy way to spot patterns (https://bentoism.org/2-the-bento-method#7).
The Bento method! Sick. A coworker shared that with our team a while back. How have you liked it so far?
Mixed feelings.
I did a public Bento facilitation while presenting at an online event at the end of 2020: the talk is in Italian, but I wrote a summary in English (https://davidetarasconi.com/2021/01/14/facilitating-my-first-public-bento/).
I've been part of the Bento community for a while, first on Slack and then on Circle and participated as a group facilitator for six group sessions of their follow-along "Bento Season", where we explored in a group setting the individual usage of the Bento method.
Working with that group I realized that some of the contents of the Bento might be triggering and make some people uncomfortable: I've been both trusted and praised by the group with and for my facilitation, it's one of those tools that looks deceptively simple but requires a great deal of situational awareness and facilitation skills if it's to be used on an individual level.
Then Yancey (Stricker) called it quits and "froze" the community that then spinned off as a independent Discord community which I'm not active in (he then founded Metalabel, which I added to the are.na "ways of working on a weird/cool website" channel 🙂)
Bummer.
I never had the chance to use Bento with a team (for some of the reasons explained in that summary I wrote in 2020), but I recently inspired a group of local Boy Scouts leaders to use the Bento method for their annual planning meeting with hundreds of scouts (I should really ask them how did I go!).