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​​Workshops beginning the week of 24 Feb

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Human relationships (Leadership and Management)

Structure of Experience (Personal Development) 

Trauma & Self-regulation (Personal Development)

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Workshops beginning the week of 10 March

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Motivation and Burnout (Leadership and Management)

Rejuvenating Creativity (Personal Development) 

​Modeling Other Minds (Coaching Training)​​

Feb 24

Workshops beginning the week of 24 February 2025
Subscribe to register by February 17

Human Relationships (Leadership and Management)

Sundays @ 2:00 - 3:30pm EST : Feb 23 – Apr 13 (8 weeks)

 

Session 1: Your Relationship Ecology

  • Immersiveness and encompassing-ness of relationships

  • Impact of relationships on mental health and productivity

  • Inventory of key relationships and first steps towards modeling their impact

  • Wishes and goals for improving relationships

 

Session 2: Relationship Rules

  • What rules, expectations, or “shoulds” do you hold about relationships?

  • Where do these come from and how are they working for you?

  • Establishing and re-negotiating rules

 

Session 3: Trust, Authenticity, and Rapport

  • When are and aren’t you trustworthy?

  • What makes social lies compelling, and are they worth it?

  • Establishing rapport and overcoming barriers to rapport

 

Session 4: Assessing Capability, Compatibility, and Goal-Alignment

  • Trustworthiness of different social signals

  • Congruence between ideals and implementations in collaborative environments

  • Interpreting “sync” on tasks, goals, outcomes

 

Session 5: Interpersonal Conflict

  • Fights as opportunities

  • Personality clashes

  • Mismatches in cognitive style

  • Cultural blindspots and misrecognitions

 

Session 6: Relationship Overhang

  • The force of inertia in relationships

  • Evaluating relational habits or ways of being that no longer match your current goals or reality

  • Transitioning out of relationships without burning bridges

 

Session 7: Wildly Frustrating, Unaccountable, or “Impossible” People

  • What is and isn’t in our hypothesis space regarding exceptionally challenging people

  • Ways social taboos can interfere with learning (and ways they still matter)

  • “Gaps” in the social fabric and their impact

 

Session 8: Relationship Pioneering

  • The need for leadership and the costs of leaderlessness

  • Taking initiative to set relationships on beneficial/desirable foundations

  • Blowback and benefits to being a first mover

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Structure of Experience (Personal Development)

Tuesdays @ 1:30 - 3:00pm EST : Feb 25 – Mar 18 (4 weeks)

 

Session 1: Introduction to Phenomenology

  • Methods of observing the mind

  • Value of self-inquiry

  • Value of truths about the experience

  • Value of shared reference experiences in human coordination

  • Exercises in self-observation

 

Session 2: Developing an Ontology of Experience

  • Exploring what types of things or objects occur in experience

  • How general are our categories of experience?

  • What happens when we try to extend these categories to other people’s experiences?

  • Possibilities for convergence on shared experience based on experiential universals

 

Session 3: Navigating Experience — Zooming Out and Zooming In

  • How do we hold and reflect on our whole experience?

  • Zooming out and connecting to the whole as a problem-solving strategy

  • Contrast with possibilities for zooming in

  • Zooming in as a problem-solving strategy

 

Session 4: Phenomenological Frontiers 

  • How we experience ourselves is conditioned on how we’ve already experienced ourselves

  • What does it mean to improve one’s understanding of one’s experience or experience in general?

  • Possibilities for connecting to larger shared social and cultural experiences, “collective phenomenology”

 

Trauma and Self-Regulation (Personal Development)

Thursdays @ 6:00 - 7:30pm EST : Feb 27 – Mar 20 (4 weeks)

 

Session 1:  A Basic Model of Trauma

  • Features of the basic model

  • Trauma and overwhelm

  • Implications of trauma in everyday life

 

Session 2: Regulatory Resources

  • Trauma in the nervous system: polyvagal theory

  • Distinguishing states of nervous system activation

  • Identifying resources for nervous system regulation

 

Session 3: Trauma, Safety, and Healing

  • Possibilities for working with trauma

  • Pendulation technique for connecting to trauma

 

Session 4: Trauma, Survivorship, and Social Integration

  • Relationship between the nervous system and the “story” of trauma

  • Social betrayal and social reintegration

  • Finding an audience for the story of trauma

  • Being that audience

March 10

Workshops beginning the week of 10 March 2025
Subscribe to register by March 2

Motivation and Burnout (Leadership and Management)

Wednesdays @ 6:00 - 7:30pm EST : Mar 12 – Apr 16 (6 weeks)

 

Session 1: Motivation in the Workplace

  • Alignment of actions, outcomes, and human desires

  • What actions are available

  • What do the actions get

  • What do the people want

  • The role of creativity and strategy in maintaining morale, productivity, and progress

 

Session 2: Individual Character and Dispositions

  • Incentives and rewards

  • Where are people capably maintaining their own motivation, where are they relating on external support

  • Exploring and establishing possibilities for that external motivational support

 

Session 3: Interpersonal Factors

  • Inspiring and demoralizing relationships in the workplace

  • Matches and mismatches of personality and role

 

Session 4: Cultural Forces

  • Evaluating enculturation processes at play in the workplace

  • Culture shear, culture shock, and possibilities for cultural harmony

  • Establishing a cultural role of creativity

 

Session 5: Structural Pressures

  • What broader social and cultural forces is the workplace exposed to through its work?

  • How are (and aren’t) these internalized and dealt with within the work environment?

  • Possibilities for rebalancing structural pressures

 

Session 6: Creativity and Institutional Design

  • Responding to feedback about motivation and burnout

  • Morale considerations and conflicts across different layers of the org chart

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Rejuvenating Creativity (Personal Development)

Saturdays @ 3:00- 4:30pm EST : Mar 15 – Apr 19 (6 weeks)

 

Session 1: Orienting Towards Creativity

  • The idea of “having” creativity

  • Possible paradoxes around intending to be more creative

  • Signs and evidence that creativity is “happening”

  • Possible benefits of not being creative (?!)

 

Session 2: Creativity as a Process

  • Mutually schematizing structure of representation

  • Creativity as skillfully moving between moments of mutually schematizing unfoldings

  • What makes for skillfulness?

  • What interrupts the process?

 

Session 3: Elemental Phenomenologies and Creativity

  • Creating phenomenological contrasts to explore dimensions of the creative process

  • e.g. Dry-sparse versus flowing-outpouring

  • e.g. Contraction-closedness versus ignition-towardness

  • Finding core or resonant representations of your creative process

 

Session 4: Creative Work Jam

  • Attempting to use what we’ve explored so far, let’s actually do some creative work!

  • Then debrief, reflect, diagnose, digest…

 

Session 5: Addressing “Blocked” Creativity

  • Establishing outposts in a “creative desert”

  • Finding deep wellsprings of creativity

 

Session 6: Healing Your Relationship With Creativity

  • Accepting responsibility for creative

  • Consider forgiving whatever has thwarted your creativity

  • What your creativity brings to the world

  • Any known or secret hopes?

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Modeling Other Minds (Coaching Development)

Thursdays @ 12:00 - 1:30pm EST : Mar 13 – Apr 19 (6 weeks)

 

Session 1: Inside Views and Outside Views

  • Your biggest confusions about other people

  • Subjectivity, objectivity, and intersubjectivity

  • Options for understanding others in terms of inside views and outside views, strengths and limitations of each

  • The feeling of being understood

 

Session 2: Relating vs Reacting to Difference

  • Navigating overwhelm around differences

  • Noticing associations and implicit assumptions about people “like me/us” vs “not like me/us”

  • Experiences of conformity and relationship to the pressure to conform

  • Holding boundaries and having own permission to be different

  • Holding space for others to be different

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Session 3: Sources of Difference

  • The practice of noticing difference

  • Different experiences: early life, economic and cultural background

  • Different developmental trajectories: major ruptures and disruptions, major adaptations

  • Different goals, plans, and values

  • Different choices and ethical positions

 

Session 4: Finding Similarity Within Difference

  • Emotional, mood, and attitude inventories as sources of granularity for finding shared ground

  • Possibilities for shared perspectives

  • Building rapport from simple shared touchstones

 

Session 5: Developing Resonant Analogies

  • Analogies as systems of correspondence

  • Finding metaphors that give both parties meaningful forms of self-representation

  • Developing a metaphor together

  • Re-grounding shared metaphor in individual experience

 

Session 6: Humility, Hypothesis-Testing, and Backtracking

  • Permission to be non-catastrophically wrong about the other

  • Navigating feelings of (perhaps mutual) misunderstanding

  • Re-grounding in kindness and care towards the other

Supercycle is a nonprofit located in Maine, USA. – EIN # 994547009. Supercycle is also fiscally sponsored by 501(c)(3) Children, Families and Communities – EIN # 010545822

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