Lincoln Center Day 4
Lots of notes today. Very good discussions, Very good day. Though I am very sad, more on that later.
Don't tell me about it, show me so we can view it in the shared space
Intellectual Conversation may not be useful
or maybe it can be
Speak if you need to speak, don't otherwise. Speak from the heart
There is no one way t do the thing we need to do.
We need to figure out beforehand the way to go about it, and this changes for every project.
People understand love in different ways (Gifts, Deeds, Words, Physical Affection) Your lover may not speak the same love language as you
Paul Eckman- Neuro-Linguistic Response
How do you "hear" information? How do you take it in?
Kinesthetic Dominat? Visual/Facial/Emotional Dominant? Vocal Aural Dominant?
No one has an accurate picture of the total experience. ^ blind men were asked to describe an elephant. The first felt his side and said an elephant is like a wall, the 2nd felt his tail and said an elephant is like a rope, the third felt his leg and said an elephant is like a tree, etc. etc. Each experienced in their own way. Who was wrong? No one, they each had their own experience
M. Scott Peck "A Different Drum" Community Building
The 4 stages of building a community
1- Pseudo Community- everyone is polite, what do we have in common, no conflict, restraint, like a first date
2-Chaos-differences, conflicts, " I don't have any problems, but you do and I know how to fix them" Response to chaos is to sometimes go back to Pseudo Community
3-Emptying- Letting go of differences and attempting to reconcile them " we both have problems and I don't know how to fix that" Release. Emptying can be terrifying and lead back to chaos and invariably pseudo- community
4- True Community- "We both have problems and thats ok, because we can still work together"
Crisis or Isolation can speed this process up.
Peter Senge "The 5th Discipline"
A Rehearsal team- a group of people continually expanding their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are constantly learning how to learn together
1- Personal Mastery- Are you any good at what you do? Are you expanding? Technique and Skill. Do You know who you are? Your tendencies and preferences? Doctors and Lawyers have to continuously do Professional Development, Why not artists. Ballerina's go to the Barre every day, Pianist practice scales, what does the actor, director, designer do? Why are special?
2-Mental Models- The way we view the world-Our assumptions. Can you visualizze the new/future/your ideas? Can you articulate them?
3- Team Learning- How does everyone learn? How do I talk to the them as A group and individually. Dialogue- Two points of view melding together. Discussion- trying to change the others view.
4-Shared vision- get on the same page.Do you all share the same values? If not can you still work together? Can you find a shared vision/value?
5-Systematically Thinking- How does everything relate? If one thing changes, how does it effect the whole? Relation between process and Product. Every Process has a product and every product has a process
System- a collection of parts working together, machine. Change on part and the whole thing changes.
Theatre is like a kitchen. We are all trying to cook a delicious luscious meal. You have your head chef, his sous chef, the waiters, the maitre d, etc. The customer never comes into the kitchen, because they may not want to eat there ever again. There are fancy restaurants, and weird food restaurants. Some people ( particularly americans) who decide to cook with a microwave to save time, yeah it's a steak, but it's a microwaved steak, a little rubbery and tough. I wish it was pan seared.
Is it true? How do you know that it is true?
In a for profit company you measure success by how much $ you make
In a Non profit company you measure success by how many lives you change. Who are you trying to change? That is your audience.
A leader doesn't lead everything. A leader can be someone who ask others to do things because they can do them better.
So the experiment they have been working on for three weeks has been interesting to observe. They turned rehearsl on its head. The Playwright runs the room. A director is at theur disposal and a designer who does not design. The experiment seems to be failing because everyone is slipping back into their roles. Is it because it is uncomfotable to do something new? Or does or training not allow us to do anything different? Or is it our culture? Or is the model we have now necessary, understandable, and the only way the only way to do it after centuries of experimentation?
I got really sad after viewing the play today, and not so much about the content. This is like being in a chocolate factory. You talk about chocolate, You discuss the ups and downs of chocolate, you trade recipes, you even see people eating it, but you never tste it yourself. I really want to work on a show. Soon enough. I will be inundated with work soon enough. And I'm a bit lonely. But that comes and goes.
I leave you with a great line from the play today...
"Hope is hard. Ah, but there is always inspiration."
Thanks everyone
Don't tell me about it, show me so we can view it in the shared space
Intellectual Conversation may not be useful
or maybe it can be
Speak if you need to speak, don't otherwise. Speak from the heart
There is no one way t do the thing we need to do.
We need to figure out beforehand the way to go about it, and this changes for every project.
People understand love in different ways (Gifts, Deeds, Words, Physical Affection) Your lover may not speak the same love language as you
Paul Eckman- Neuro-Linguistic Response
How do you "hear" information? How do you take it in?
Kinesthetic Dominat? Visual/Facial/Emotional Dominant? Vocal Aural Dominant?
No one has an accurate picture of the total experience. ^ blind men were asked to describe an elephant. The first felt his side and said an elephant is like a wall, the 2nd felt his tail and said an elephant is like a rope, the third felt his leg and said an elephant is like a tree, etc. etc. Each experienced in their own way. Who was wrong? No one, they each had their own experience
M. Scott Peck "A Different Drum" Community Building
The 4 stages of building a community
1- Pseudo Community- everyone is polite, what do we have in common, no conflict, restraint, like a first date
2-Chaos-differences, conflicts, " I don't have any problems, but you do and I know how to fix them" Response to chaos is to sometimes go back to Pseudo Community
3-Emptying- Letting go of differences and attempting to reconcile them " we both have problems and I don't know how to fix that" Release. Emptying can be terrifying and lead back to chaos and invariably pseudo- community
4- True Community- "We both have problems and thats ok, because we can still work together"
Crisis or Isolation can speed this process up.
Peter Senge "The 5th Discipline"
A Rehearsal team- a group of people continually expanding their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are constantly learning how to learn together
1- Personal Mastery- Are you any good at what you do? Are you expanding? Technique and Skill. Do You know who you are? Your tendencies and preferences? Doctors and Lawyers have to continuously do Professional Development, Why not artists. Ballerina's go to the Barre every day, Pianist practice scales, what does the actor, director, designer do? Why are special?
2-Mental Models- The way we view the world-Our assumptions. Can you visualizze the new/future/your ideas? Can you articulate them?
3- Team Learning- How does everyone learn? How do I talk to the them as A group and individually. Dialogue- Two points of view melding together. Discussion- trying to change the others view.
4-Shared vision- get on the same page.Do you all share the same values? If not can you still work together? Can you find a shared vision/value?
5-Systematically Thinking- How does everything relate? If one thing changes, how does it effect the whole? Relation between process and Product. Every Process has a product and every product has a process
System- a collection of parts working together, machine. Change on part and the whole thing changes.
Theatre is like a kitchen. We are all trying to cook a delicious luscious meal. You have your head chef, his sous chef, the waiters, the maitre d, etc. The customer never comes into the kitchen, because they may not want to eat there ever again. There are fancy restaurants, and weird food restaurants. Some people ( particularly americans) who decide to cook with a microwave to save time, yeah it's a steak, but it's a microwaved steak, a little rubbery and tough. I wish it was pan seared.
Is it true? How do you know that it is true?
In a for profit company you measure success by how much $ you make
In a Non profit company you measure success by how many lives you change. Who are you trying to change? That is your audience.
A leader doesn't lead everything. A leader can be someone who ask others to do things because they can do them better.
So the experiment they have been working on for three weeks has been interesting to observe. They turned rehearsl on its head. The Playwright runs the room. A director is at theur disposal and a designer who does not design. The experiment seems to be failing because everyone is slipping back into their roles. Is it because it is uncomfotable to do something new? Or does or training not allow us to do anything different? Or is it our culture? Or is the model we have now necessary, understandable, and the only way the only way to do it after centuries of experimentation?
I got really sad after viewing the play today, and not so much about the content. This is like being in a chocolate factory. You talk about chocolate, You discuss the ups and downs of chocolate, you trade recipes, you even see people eating it, but you never tste it yourself. I really want to work on a show. Soon enough. I will be inundated with work soon enough. And I'm a bit lonely. But that comes and goes.
I leave you with a great line from the play today...
"Hope is hard. Ah, but there is always inspiration."
Thanks everyone
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