{"id":3839,"date":"2013-05-21T08:14:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2013-05-24T05:54:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:54:49","slug":"teaching-the-five-cynefin-domains-using-physical-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/teaching-the-five-cynefin-domains-using-physical-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching the five Cynefin domains using physical exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here at the Art of Hosting in Chicago working with 70 people fromthe restorative justice field and the early childhood education world. \u00a0Inspired by a design from Tenneson Woolf<\/a> and an invitation from Teresa Posakony<\/a>, my new friend Anamaria Accove and I hosted a lovely exploration of the Cynefin framework using movement and physical embodiment to help people understand the difference between the domains. \u00a0The exercise went this way:<\/p>\n

We taped the framwork on the floor, which is the standard way I teach it. \u00a0Before we talked about it at all, we invited the group to divide into four groups and follow our instructions.<\/p>\n

The first exercise was a simple<\/strong> challenge: to arrange the group by height. \u00a0There were different ways this was accomplished but everyone settled on a linear shape with the tallest at one end and the shortest at the other.<\/p>\n

The second exercise was for people to arrange themselves by age and year of birth. \u00a0A complicated<\/strong> problem for sure, and there was a variety of good solutions that emerged. \u00a0Of course in order to do this you need a little analysis, both of the data and a good model fro representing it. \u00a0But having arranged themselves, each selection was accurate and useful.<\/p>\n

In the third exercise we asked people to arrange themselves by place of origin. \u00a0This wasn’t a particularly complex<\/strong> task, but it did result in an experience of emergence. \u00a0Again it required conversation, story telling and some meaning making (like, from my mother’s womb? \u00a0From my hometown? From the place I left this morning?). \u00a0What emerged were several interesting ways of representing the data, but we honed in on one of the two maps. \u00a0By asking one or two people where they originated from we were able to predict where the rest of group was from with startling accuracy. \u00a0What emerged was a map of the United States that came with its own information and data.<\/p>\n

For the fourth exercise we asked people to arrange themselves like five year old children at a birthday party right after the cake had been eaten. \u00a0Utter chaos.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally we posed a question from the realm of disorder<\/strong>. \u00a0We asked the group to arrange themselves by temperature. \u00a0“What?” \u00a0This really helped to show that disorder was not the same as chaos. \u00a0Disorder invites us to lean in and figure out what is going on before we see if this is a simple or complex task. In that sense it is the opposite of chaos, in that disorder itself is a container. \u00a0This is such an important domain to understand and to understand especially how we default to assuming how to solve problems without first defining the scope of what we are looking at.<\/p>\n

After running this exercise we taught the Cynefin framework but naming the domains, explaining the cause and effect relationships and explaining the decision making schemes for each domain. \u00a0Many people reported that they understood it at a deeper and more practical level and especially in the domain of disorder which gets a short shrift in the wider world. \u00a0Folks that were familiar with the framework but who had not groked the concept of disorder got it this time! \u00a0That is partly down to me learning how to teach it better as well, by characterizing the disorder domain as one that present problems that stop us in our tracks and force us to say “WTF?” \u00a0WTF has now been translated by the group in this context as “Where’s the Family?” which is actually a pretty good strategy for dealing with disorder!<\/p>\n

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  Here at the Art of Hosting in Chicago working with 70 people fromthe restorative justice field and the early childhood education world. \u00a0Inspired by a design from Tenneson Woolf and an invitation from Teresa Posakony, my new friend Anamaria Accove and I hosted a lovely exploration of the Cynefin framework using movement and physical embodiment to help people understand the difference between the domains. \u00a0The exercise went this way: We taped the framwork on the floor, which is the standard way I teach it. \u00a0Before we talked about it at all, we invited the group to divide into four …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[29,18,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-of-hosting","category-emergence","category-facilitation","category-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-ZV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3844,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}