The Longing for Belonging
Thu, Jun 15, 2023
10:30 AM
to
12:00 PM
United States / Eastern
Join other business leaders online in this open, participatory Bohm Dialogue to explore the leader's role in building community and a felt sense of belonging.
What possibilities arise when employees feel like they belong?
How can deep community contribute to organizational success?
“Daring leaders work to make sure people can be themselves and feel a sense of belonging.” - Brené Brown |
While we Dialogue about leadership and business challenges and opportunities, within a Bohm Dialogue process, we'll pay attention to noticing and building capacity to find your Voice and create space for the voice of others. Finding your voice does not necessarily mean speaking. Traditional leaders often speak too much rather than finding their voice of silent presence, enabling the voices of their colleagues. Together, let's practice listening and being heard and how authentic voice contributes to community and a sense of belonging.
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In Bohm Dialogue, we practice noticing where our voice is coming from, and developing our capacity to more consistently use authentic voice. Voice is core to leadership. A good leader knows when and how to use their own voice, but more importantly opens the space of listening so that others find theirs.
The practice of finding authentic voice is an essential, but complex and nuanced journey. Because of past conditioning and habits of communication, people are often not aware of where their voice is coming from or the impact it has. It can show up in power-over or victim patterns. It can be suppressed, scattered, manipulative, or dominating. True power, connection and positive impact is found in finding and connecting to authentic voice and trusting it.
In Dialogue, practice noticing where your own voice is coming from and making choices to change its vibration for greater clarity and positive impact. For example:
- When you speak, are you clear and concise, or do you tend to run on and on?
- Are you able to be fully present, listening to others, or are you occupied thinking about what you will say?
- Are you comfortable and present with silence moments, or do you break the silence with your voice out of discomfort?
- Are you OK with not saying anything at all - contributing from your presence and listening?
- Are you afraid to speak out, feeling your voice is not important?
- Do you find yourself needing to say something clever, knowledgeable or wise to draw attention to yourself? Alternatively, are you using your voice to ask questions, inviting the wisdom of the group to be expressed?
- Are you able to consciously hold back or restrain from speaking when something needs to be unsaid or is not useful?
- Do you feel that you are not heard when you speak? How do you react? Is this a pattern?
- Can you openly voice your feelings, emotions, uncertainties, errors and discomfort?
- Do you notice when you are 'called to speak' from an insight or intuition and have the courage to speak it out at the appropriate time?
- Do you honor and respect the voice of others? Do some ways of speaking make you upset? How can you shift this experience of upset?