B.W.C, breathe, we change! is a dedicated support for teams to unite and reconnect with collaborative creativity. This workshop is based on my experience of coaching teams, collective and emotional intelligence techniques. It is a real preparation for collaborative work, even in “remote”. B.W.C brings concentration, innovation and confidence to your teams.
B.W.C: Breathe we change to boost the creativity of your teams
B.W.C allows to develop a positive energy and to enter what Americans call the flow: High skill + high challenge = flow
One continuously challenges the other, in constant learning. As skills develop, the challenge is renewed.
Flow, or flux in French, corresponds to a state of mind in which everyone is concentrated in their activity with maximum pleasure. Achieving this state of mind allows you to do things naturally, mindfully, and in a way that everyone can enjoy.
B.W.C is a workshop that allows you to join a team in this flow. They are also ideation, design sprint or Lean start-up sessions. It is also a new way of reviewing your priority management by giving meaning to your teams. I invite you to discover an excerpt from this workshop by clicking on the video above.
Breathing allows everyone to focus and then, in a SHU HA RI game workshop of my invention, reconnect with their creativity in 21 minutes. This exercise is a good preamble to create a connection from a distance. Do it regularly, alone or in a team, your mind will be trained to see differently.
B.W.C: Course of the exercise
DO
Step 1. > 3 minutes (SHU)
Hold in your hand a regular object (like a pen)
or a concept already written on a piece of paper.
Observe it and write down everything you know about it
Step 2. > 3 minutes (HA)
Play with the object and answer the following question
what do you lack for the object to become useful or indispensable?
Step 3. > 3 minutes (RI)
Create the ideal object on the basis of your ideas deposited in the HA. You can draw it or model it.
PIVOT
Cooperate with another player (or family member, friends). You have one minute each to present your conclusion from Step 3.
Listen then Write the answer to the question:
What would I like to have to use it regularly?
EXPERIMENT
Step 4. 3 minutes all together
You have 3 minutes to decide with your teammate if you combine the 2 ideas for the rest of the creative process, or if you retain a single idea. And which one?
Step 5. > 3 minutes (Do)
Make do with what’s available in the room and write a short checklist with the 3 essentials you need to go further.
Step 6. >3 minutes (SHU, again)
Share your prototype with as many people as possible (in the case of several players) and get their agreement. Each agreement is a cross marked on your piece of paper. It’s proof that they got the idea. The winner is the team with the most crosses.
This workshop then invites learners to anchor the creative process. BWC invites learners to live an experiment by unfolding the principle of the SHU HA RI game through a scenario thus bringing the group to a first experience of Trans ‘Formations AGo.
SHUHARI, the three stages associated with Lean that are “Shu: Follow the rule, Ha: Break the rule, Ri: Become the rule” is here a personal interpretation of Japanese ideograms and gives the following meaning:
- Shu, appreciate what is
- Ha, imagine what could be
- Ri, exchange on what could be
- and let’s add Do,innove on what would be
These 4 steps of the SHU HA RI DO gradually lead the team from the observation (SHU) to the realization (DO).
At the same time as the process of creativity becomes repetitive, each achievement (DO) brings a learning (SHU) that the team will have to exploit and in which they will apply their emotional intelligence, collective this time.
The Do brings us to meet and innovate on what would be.
By combining the different achievements, the teams will find material to co-construct a project and will then enter a process of 3 times 21 days, inviting them to consolidate and create a prototype or a M.V.P ( minimum valuable product).
The heart at the center of the diagram helps us enter different universes using archetypes of behaviors borrowed from the dynamic spiral, then step into our own context to create our own group dynamics.
This creative process alternates breathing and space of freedom to set up value-added projects both individually and for the company itself.
What creates a change of behavior is the alliance of 3 elements:
- MOTIVATION
- EASE
- TRIGGER as described by one of my colleagues on his blog .
B.W.C is a way to increase one’s awareness and one’s potential to act. This will be the trigger that will emerge the C.I.D.s., 4 levers of transformation: Courage; Intuition, Challenge and common sense. Once assurance is taken that creativity is in each of us, the C.I.D.s will take over a successful transformation.
B.W.C courses are regularly offered online on In Imago events
This article was conceived and written by Dominique Popiolek, transformational leader and professional coach.