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Leading with Fun
Have fun, and the world will follow. There really is no more enduring and endearing leadership quality than fun. Someone who is clearly having fun, who invites others to have fun, is someone who people want to follow - someone who knows how to lead people where they most want to go. The problem is, you can't force fun. To make things fun, you have to be sensitive to fun, be aware of its continued and ubiquitous presence in your life. To come by that sensitivity, you have to learn about fun and about yourself, about what is fun for you, and what it's like when it's fun, and how you make it fun and keep it fun - for yourself, for everyone with whom you have fun. In this program, we will be doing just that: developing your sensitivity to fun. We will be studying the psychology of fun and the group dynamics of fun. And, we will, of course, be playing games - a lot of games, Fun games. Open-ended games. Games whose rules change and whose only real goal is - fun. We'll be playing these games so that we can have fun, together, and so we can then use those experiences as a tool for understanding more about ourselves, each other, and the art of leading with fun. Our explorations of the psychology of fun will be informed by the concept of "flow" as developed by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Flow is a very powerful and empowering notion that helps people understand everything from the fun of basketball and rock climbing to the fun of being a surgeon or working in an office or chewing gum. As we study and discuss and explore the experience of Flow, you will gain insights about work and play that will prove immensely practical - because you will begin to understand and acknowledge the real (and often hidden) rewards for the work that you do best and the games that you play best. Oddly enough, just sharing those aspects of work and play that are fun for you will help you make your work and play more fun, and develop your skills in leading with fun. Our explorations of the social dynamics of fun will be based on an original concept called "CoLiberation." Built on Csikszentmihalyi's model of Flow, CoLiberation. helps us explore and define the nature of truly nurturing relationships. With this knowledge, you will be able to explore your own relationships at work and everywhere in your life, and develop a clear understanding of what makes them - or keeps them from being - fun. The games we will be playing are a bit unusual. Many of them are original. None of them focus on score, or winning and losing, or being a better player. All of them focus on evoking the experience of fun. Some are physical games. None require anyone to be athletic. Some are mental games. None require anyone to be particularly smart. They are basically invitations to play. Naturally, these are games that you'll be able to play again and again, with family and friends, coworkers and clients. After you've played a bunch of these games, you will be asked to lead us in your favorites. As you lead, you will be practicing what we call "Inclusionary Leadership" or "Leadership by Inclusion" - the art of leading with fun. As we discuss what you did to lead us to fun, you will become clearer about how you can lead by including others in your fun, and we will become clearer about our own sense of fun and our own understanding of Inclusionary Leadership. By the end of the session, you will have
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