Playful Approaches to Organizational Concerns Mark Lynch

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Playful Approaches to Organizational
Concerns Mark Lynch
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• Nelson, Marlborough and Motueka Presbyterian
  Support Upper South Island
• New Zealand

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He whakatauki

• Hutia te Rito Pluck the centre
• Hutia te rito o te harakeke Pluck the centre out
  of the flax
• Kei hea te Komako e Ko? Where will the bellbird
  sing ?
• Ki mai ki ahau. You ask me
• He aha te mea nui ? What is the greatest thing
  ?
• He aha te mea nui I te ao? What is the greatest
  thing in the
• Maku e ki atu world ?
• He tangata, I will answer
• He Tangata It is people
• He Tangata hi ! it is people,
• It is people!

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Serious playing with organizational issues

• An invitation to get into and play with metaphors
  

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A Background Story or Two The ElephantThe
Liner and The Small Boat

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Discovering New Possibilities in current concerns

• Can you think of a metaphor to capture what you
  are currently working on and what brought you to
  this workshop ?
• Interviewers can you interview from a curious
  and fun view point and gather as much information
  as possible about this metaphor and how it works.
  

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Discovering new possibilities in current
concerns

Interview Ideas
Metaphor
New possibilities
Concern
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• Picturing Metaphors
• Put yourself in their shoes
• Picture yourself in this metaphor
• Picture yourself moving around this metaphor

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• The Harakeke
• Pluck the centre out of the flax
• Where will the bellbird sing ?
• Meaning Making
• New shoots
• Older leaves
• The Whanua/Family

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A couple of ponderings to go away
with !What ideas have already caught your
attention at this conference that you might weave
into new fabrics on your return to your work ?
What does strengths-based weaving sound like ?

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• A few words of warning you are likely to find
  yourself a lot more tuned into the presence of
  metaphors.
• Others may not be so.
• Be generous with them and yourselves !
• Ka Kite Ano (Be Well and Be Happy)