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SAMPLE journal entry
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Daily:
- 4 Qs: Going well, challenging, dreams, next steps
- Interventions? Timing? Transitions? (Designed or Improvised?)
- How is the un/consciously designed process playing out?
- Action Learning--where am I in the Kolb Kite/ Dragon Dreaming? Should I be moving forward, backward, or stay put?
- Am I transforming myself positively? How does my context affect me? How do I affect my context?
- What skillflexes have I attended to? What new skillflexes do I want to acquire?
- What am I in the process of UnLearning? What new objectives do I have?
- How am i managing my projects?
- Whose work am I reading/exploring/looking for? How can I build upon their work?
- Who are my allies? How am I collaborating with them?
- What evidence of leadership is there?
- Are my projects and actions being disseminated? How?
- Am I developing as a person? As a professional?
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Weekly:
- Recap all of the above: trends, emotions attached to certain process, unresolved challenges, and overview of 4 Qs
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PERSONAL
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Design Skills
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Articulation and Tracking of Approach
- Journal entries
- Mindmaps
- Trello, Kanban...
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Reflections on Intervention, Timing, and Transitions
- Process reviews for projects--look at timing in Trello and Kanban boards; review Tomato Timer
- Calendar documentation (Google Cal--note meetings, to dos, etc. and what is actually achieved)
- journal Entries
- Weekly wrap ups in journal
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Design and Engagement
- Journal entry review
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Action Learning
- Balance between Reflection and Experimentation
- Balance between Thinking and Doing
- Transformation of Self and Context
- Attention to UnLearning Goals and Skill Flex Development
- Dragon Dreaming
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Process Skills
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Project Management Skills
- Keep running list in journal of skillflexes
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Critical Evaluation Skills and Reference to Good Practices Elsewhere
- Purchase texts on kindle
- Seek other professionals to collaborate with
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Collaboration, Participation, Use of Allies
- Keep in contact with peers, professionals, etc. that have collaborated with me in the past; seek advise and guidance
- Seek new allies through conferences, classes, projects, etc.
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Leadership, Facilitation and Mentoring Efforts
- Publish work more frequently, utilize social media
- Lead courses and continue giving presentations
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Outcomes
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Practical Benefits to the Field
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Adding Value to Knowledge Commons and Dissemination Efforts
- Website creation
- Blogging weekly, posted to website
- Links to other eco-social designers and world changers--articles, blog posts, videos, music, movies, profiles, etc.
- Assist in research projects and
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Competence/Attention to Personal/Professional Development
- Refer back to goals and skillflex development, update quarterly
- Update resume with new positions
- Website creation and monthly updates of design, resume, blog posts...
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PATRIX/POLITICAL
- Continue open discussions on such topics
- Seek new texts on both, particularly alternatives to our inverted totalitarian systems such as Gaia Education/Eco village texts
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PROFESSIONAL
- Lizette Sliter
- Eric Toensmeier
- Meghan Giroux
- Steve Whitman
- Lauren Chase-Rowell
- Mary Tebo Davis
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PROJECT
- Look to other support systems, find supportful mentors, peers, and coworkers
- Daily reflection through journaling
- Seek projects that I can immerse myself in fully, not take on more than one time and energy consuming project at a time. Focus on completion of the bulk work and then take on more if possible
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PEER
- JON
- JACKSON
- STORY
- CLAIRE
- ZADA
- LIZETTE
- KINLEY