Co-operative Values: Co-Creating a more sustainable future for all.
Create Seven
This podcast is produced as part of Co-operative Fortnight celebrations. This is two weeks of mass co-operation to spread the co-op word and share the values that make our businesses different. The conversation is hosted by Jill Chapman and Gary King from Create Seven CIC Co-operative.
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Connecting kindly with self and nature for Mental Health Awareness Week
Create Seven
Evidence and Research shows the importance of nature and mindfulness for our mental health. However deep down we already know the power and wisdom of nature. At times of stress we naturally retreat to nature to get perspective and a greater sense of ease. This is a short guided practice suitable for everyone and is a gift as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. We invite you to gift yourself the space and time to listen. You deserve it.
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Now is Your Time to Reconnect
Create Seven
Now is your time to reconnect
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Reclaiming Leadership for Everyone
Create Seven
When we say to people we believe everyone is a leader, the response we sometimes get back is “no I’m not a leader”. Further discussion around how we all lead every day can then prompt the response “no, I don’t want to be a leader”. It has become clear, from their perspective, ‘leadership’ is a dirty word and they don’t want anything to do with it. Yet from our perspective, we see them leading every day. It is the prevailing narrative coming through our televisions, radios and newspapers on a daily basis, that is leading people to experience leadership...
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Developing Everyday Leadership
Create Seven
This is the third and final podcast in the 'Who is a Leader' series. In this podcast Terry, Gary and Jill first recap previous discussions on the concept of everyday leadership. They then move on to explore definitions leadership and the concept of leadership development. Once these concepts are established the conversation moves on to how we can all develop our leadership by changing how we perceive, experience, understand and interact with the world. It is proposed that this type of development changes the nature of our consciousness and enables us to use our...
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Everyday Leadership
Create Seven
Following on from the podcast, Is Everyone a Leader? Jill, Terry and Gary at Create Seven continue the conversation, talking about the notion of Everyday Leadership. What does leadership look like everyday? What is the impact of how we lead ourselves and each other? What do you think about everyday leadership?
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Is Everyone a Leader?
Create Seven
This podcast explores and challenges the view that only people at the top of organisations are the leaders. We then introduce the idea that the problems faced by organisations today are too complex for one brain to find an effective solution. Therefore, solutions today need to be co-created. This creates the space for everyone to be a leader. We finish the podcast by arguing the best leaders will be those who can provide the conditions and space for other people to co-create the future.
info_outlineWhen we say to people we believe everyone is a leader, the response we sometimes get back is “no I’m not a leader”. Further discussion around how we all lead every day can then prompt the response “no, I don’t want to be a leader”. It has become clear, from their perspective, ‘leadership’ is a dirty word and they don’t want anything to do with it. Yet from our perspective, we see them leading every day. It is the prevailing narrative coming through our televisions, radios and newspapers on a daily basis, that is leading people to experience leadership as being elitist, divisive and negative.
If we are to create a more sustainable future, we must do it together. We need to reclaim the word ‘leadership’ for everyone. We recently started this process by holding a Bohm Dialogue Workshop, facilitated by Creating Meaning, with the aim to create new narratives of leadership. This podcast is the Check-Out from this workshop where everyone shared the insights they had gained.
If you would like to bring people together and have a Dialogue creating new narratives of leadership, contact us and we’ll be pleased to share our experience and help you get it organised and facilitated. Alternatively, you can join in with the dialogue in our Facebook Group.