Another article for the international Pioneers of Change newsletter:

Obviously, the selfHUB is a powerful place for me but what was a powerful place when I was growing up?

Unfortunately, most of my school years in Germany were not spent in powerful places. However, last week, I received a questionnaire from Wolfgang at the Unperfecthaus in Essen. Wolfgang is doing a survey around the question:

“Which place from your childhood do you still remember?”

And luckily, the German school system is slowly changing and some German schools are turning into learning spaces (as this video in German shows):

In the Art of Hosting community the Kaospilots from Denmark recently started a conversation on how to create meaning at a workplace and thus make it a powerful place:

1. Acknowledge the individual
2. Are your employees/project participants making a difference (striving for a higher purpose than work and money)
3. Create a sound platform for dialogue. People around should feel that there are safe space for them to give you feedback to make you better.
4. Empower people around you. Give out responsibility – they are the experts (or going to be)
5. Ensure your timing is right. Stress leads to bad communication and false decisions
6. Invest in the relationships.
7. Please continue the list and share your findings.

Mary Alice from New Zealand added:

7. Create a powerful storyfield for your vision together and keep it alive.
8. Define leadership and teamship and community. What do these mean and how will you know they are being demonstrated?
9. Redefine old concepts of conflict and make a plan about how to handle it well together.
10. Do what the world thinks is counterintuitive — be kind, be thoughtful, share your feelings, be observant, look out for each other, develop ways to be more and more present
11. Make a commitment to regularly reviewing together — spend considerable time learning how to have a conversation about the conversation so that you know how to go deep with each other
12. Create ways for people to move beyond their desks, out of their intrays and into the world in inquiry — they will bring back gold
13. Ask more questions than you ever have answers

May it inspire!