Thank you for helping us build our THORT Canvas to include people of many different cultures and styles of communication.
To say thank you, we offer you - or someone you nominate - a free 40 minute digital workout of your choice in the next 6 months.
Building an online Inclusive Reflexive Canvas together - for all.
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Here is an example of a workout on our Online Lockdown Canvas.
The conversation with is based on a current dilemma and is used with permission.
Notice how the graph in the center illustrates the scores and quickly shows what a person is giving attention to and perhaps ignoring at the moment.
The Aim positions the direction for workout and the Take-a-Way gives direction for action after the meeting.
Our WHY?
- What inspired it
About our Lockdown Canvas
Due to the emotionally charged nature of Lockdown, people are pushed to their learning edges. This inspired us to offer them a safe space online where they can reflect and make sense of their changing world.
Clients, from 2 decades to 2 years ago, have returned to update their ‘mental lens’ by redoing their earlier workouts - as they sit in a safe space and make sense of their changing world.
They often arrived overwhelmed, worried, stressed, sometimes feeling powerless and overcome by loss.
They often leave feeling lighter, more resilient, some having let some ‘stuff’ go and now have a more Open Mindset, others leave with greater awareness and new hope about the new opportunities that are unfolding.
Our key terms in our #STOP-IT Canvas are guided by our clients, who helped us to rename them to be more widely understood or ‘owned’ by the people in our very multicultural and expressive continent.
The original terms for the whole-brain scan originated in the Northern Hemisphere, and we saw that some people were very uncomfortable with some words. Their discomfort was often based on cultural norms that supported different yet complementary values and behaviors.
We realised that if a word is more accessible, then it is also easier to remember when a person is stressed. And of course many were very comfortable with the American or European terms, too. So we decided to give people a choice in the way they labeled their workout.
We then invited people to join us in renaming the key terms with a more African/other cultural lens if they wished. The first term they swapped was that of ‘Autonomy’ for the more human-centric word, ‘POWER-2-DECIDE’. A client explained that while: ‘Both point to owing your power to decide something, the second lacks the sense of domination of the first, which is not how I was taught to behave’.
Our HOW?
- #STOP-IT history
This initiative is by the community, promoting inclusion for the wider community. Please join us by translating the 6 key terms into a language you know, and into a form you would be comfortable using in a personal conversation.
Any terms or comments you offer will be added anonymously to our database, and we will seek validation from others before offering it in our canvas.
Our ASK
- How you can contribute
