I work on the design of the prototype ‘Safety and shelter“Program, which is a trip to the landscape of quiet leadership. This work is intended to offer people the opportunity to meet, to share their stories of loss, hope, resilience and to find a space to breathe. It is a recognition that in our changing world, some people feel silent or alone, and that our responsibility as social leaders is to create space and keep it safely. It is a space for dialogue, no domination, with everyone is welcome, if they can both speak and listen.
The first part of the work considers “loss”, which people can feel that they have lost, whether identity, comfort, familiarity, security or something else. In this, we will consider what it has disappeared and how this thing relates to our main identity and balance. We are not looking for an answer here, but rather to hear the range of stories in the landscape.
The idea of ”certainty” is important: how our loss can question our wider certainty about the landscape in which we are. We will use questions to explore this, on the state of our certainty, or how he fell in love. Also consider how social leaders can maintain ambiguity, for themselves and for others (when we can all wish for certainty).
Finally, we use the two features of ‘Agency‘ And ‘Control‘. The loss can relate to these elements: a loss of our individual agency or a lack of control over the consequences. In this, we will explore how our individual agency is owned and what it costs us when it is limited or lost. This conversation will probably lead us into a consideration of how confidence works in fractured contexts and the way in which “confidence” and the “agency” are linked.
In this first prototype, I will prepare four questions in each of the four areas, but in the final press release, I expect to reduce this to eight questions in total. For me, prototyping work is a way to refine and perfect the language, and learn from what people say. When I guided the groups for the first time through the Quiet leadership The work, each story was new, but when I arrived at the third group, I started to hear what each group said and where the new stories were.
#Workingoutloud on security and refuge
