Dear Partners, Participants!
Based on the notes you have sent, here is a summary of the results of the Roads to Meet conference.
At the conference, the organizing team considered it their main task to give visitors insight and experience about the action research carried out within the project. Our goal was to raise awareness and engage with those interested. We deliberately wanted to avoid presentations that were too detailed and one-sided. After all, the results of action research and the foundations of the methodological meta-model will be presented in detail in the final study and will give everyone the opportunity to get involved in the work.
With all this in mind, we focused on providing an emphatic presentation of our three basic human technologies: Value-conscious Thinking, Feedback Culture, Mentoring. The specific tasks were training tasks related to value-conscious thinking, and the way of implementation included the technological elements of feedback culture and mentoring.
The basis of value-conscious thinking as a technology is an algorithm that can measure, express and feedback in a diverse and cooperative way the contribution to the realization of a common goals in a community/organization. The most important element of feedback is the “personal value / point” of the members of the community, calculated through multiple factors / lines of development. Thus, the higher one’s value is, the more value he or she has created for the realization of the goal. The exact description of the method is already pages and difficult to interpret without experience. Therefore, the easiest way to implement this method is to try and learn what it means to think about value factors in a community.
At the conference, we asked the audience “What makes you feel welcome in a community?” The task, therefore, is to collect factors that allow the individual to evaluate and give feedback to others about how accepted they feel. We did not set strict validity criteria for the factors at the conference because the goal was to deliver the experience, but the methodological description already has a number of related technology descriptions.
In the process of brainstorming, we listed 58 factors, divided into 5 small groups. The task of the small groups was to first check the extent to which this factor relates to the measurement of feeling of inclusion. If not, filter it out. For the remaining factors, give a consensus description and an example.
During the teamwork, a large number of the 58 factors were eliminated during the validation process. The ones that survived and developed are the following.
FACTORS, THAT INFLUENCE ‘MY FEELING OF INCLUSION’ IN A GROUP
High quality
Description: I’m looking for a match in the community for the quality I represent. That is to say, being inclusive increases the feeling of being accepted by community members.
Example: I like to deepen the concepts and the community likes it.
Uplift
Description: They show me my ideal self in the community that I like to see in myself.
Example: Coming into the community, I feel like I am developing, being able to do more
Quality space
Description: The tidiness and atmosphere of the physical environment of the community, the level of feeling at home
Example: Based on a nice, transparent web page, I feel “tailored for me”. I’d love to identify with him.
Inspired connection
Description: Community members nourish my life energy. We are connected at the level of vitality. I feel included in the co-creation through bi-directional relationships.
Example: Members, through their transparency, engage me in activities, tasks, and where I get used.
Openness
Description: Interested attitude, responsiveness, flexibility to get to know and accept new knowledge
Example: When I arrive, community members are willing to know things in my life that aren’t specifically relate to community services
Interest
Description: A curious person’s behavior, a manifestation of an outward focus. A person who directs his or her attention to the environment and wants other people or things to get new information about them.
Example: Someone ahead of a deepening connection, initiates it towards me as a newcomer.
Immediacy
Description: Friendly, intimate behavior, inclusive attitude. Of course, simple manners, behavior.
Example: From the first day of dating, I feel like I’m among friends.
Support
Description: The act of helping a person, group, or cause.
Example: material, tools, service, knowledge, compassion, reciprocity, broadcast acceptance
Tolerance
Description: Striving for mutual flexibility, increasing each other’s margin of maneuver, which takes into account both sides where I allow my partner, within healthy limits, to do, say, believe what you want without qualifying the other
Example: When approaching a community, I feel like it goes easy, without halt
Cooperation
Description: 1) Support each other; mutual action and working together to accomplish a goal or task. 2) Collaboration as a team for a set purpose, based on a common set of moral values, where mutual support and responsibility are realized as an integral unit. 3) A common attitude, a common state, which is realized by the creation of these activities.
Example: I take trust as a member of the community asking for help.
Patience
Description: 1) Power-free management of time needed for accomplish changes. 2) Carefulness, persistent attention to difficult task. 3) Quiet anticipation, self-control and persistent intention.
Example: The group leaves me free at what pace I get to know them
Solving Ability
Description: Apply creativity, knowledge, and abilities to achieve tasks and goals. Problem solving that results. Release barriers in flow.
Example: I get a solution to the life situation I bring in the group
Affectionate
Description: Being together with members of the group gives you a great feeling. I feel important and feel the importance of the group to myself.
Example: I like to go to the community because they welcome me, there’s always a good word or hug for me
Safety
Description: When trust is mutual in a group, it supports my emotional and physical well-being
Example: If I lose my job, the community helps out on its own
Solidarity / Unity Consciousness
Description: In the community, we create our own values and live according to what we have agreed
Example: If we agree how to use the community space, everyone will follow our agreed goals