Dear Friends,
It's summer. Good time to replenish energy, reconnect with vision, and revitalize our strategies for deep social change.
There are important links between deep change at the personal, organizational and community levels. Deep change requires willingness to journey into unknown territory. It requires a capacity to view our work in a bigger picture context, to shift perspectives and see expanding possibilities in ourselves, in each other and in our work as a team.
These are especially tough economic times. On a scale from 1 to 10, how would you rate your results, relative to your vision? How would you rate your personal and organizational vitality?
Results are certainly a good measure of our work. However, as Robert E. Quinn explains (in his excellent book Deep Change) our vitality is also a good barometer of how we are doing. When vitality wanes, stress increases, our focus narrows, and we tend to double up our commitment to existing strategies.
Adhering to what we already know how to do is the opposite flow of energy from expanding possibilities.
If the time is ripe for your program team to achieve greater clarity, or to boost your vitality and innovation, be in touch: possibilities@SEEDimpact.org.
SEED offers low cost self assessment and visioning workshops over telephone and internet conference. We also offer staff retreats at our Forest Hills Queens location—a 35 minute subway ride from midtown Manhattan . Come check out our lovely townhouse surrounded by huge trees and flowers. Bring your team on a summer’s day. Enjoy a picnic in the park for lunch.
For examples of SEED in action,
we invite you to peruse case studies.
Voices from the field:
"A great team-building experience that offers an opportunity to step back and consider the program from a different angle."
--YMCA of Elgin
"The Six-Month Stretch we did with SEED was a learning process about how something can evolve when you can stay on it and be intentional. Using the expect/like/love success markers to build it slowly after our staff retreat, I learned how to set goals in a different way that I haven’t before."
-- Policy, Advocacy and Research Department
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
"You have a marvelous way of guiding our work towards inspiration. We continued after our telephone session and made some marvelous breakthroughs towards synthesizing our courses."
-- Buell Early Childhood Leadership Program
"Your process, assessment questions, and facilitation style really tap into our creativity and strengths. Thank you for working with us in such a sympathetic and attuned way
-- Summer Search
"Your tools are amazing, and your perspective and expertise are invaluable."
-- Public Allies
