putting possibility back into practice
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Developing Soft Skills:
Putting POSSIBILITY
back into PRACTICE
PAMELA SWEET • FCIP, RPP STEVE FRITH • MCIP, RPP
VANCOUVER 2013PLANNING INSTITUTE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF PLANNERS
JULY 8, 2013
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Outline of Workshop
1. Introduction
2. Adopting a Positive Attitude
3. Collaboration and Vulnerability
4. Sharing Positive Possibility
5. Wrap up and Continuing the Conversation
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Planners are NATURALLY
Optimistic
Ann McAfee
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• Don’t “Curb your enthusiasm”
• Renew your enthusiasm for planning
• Put the zip into planning
• How to stay optimistic
• Asked some fellow Fellows…..
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I always found that work was MORE FUN than fun
Noel Coward
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Make PASSIONATE love to your city
Paul Bedford
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A planner has to be VISIONARY and
BELIEVE that one’s contributions will
make a difference
N.Tunnacliffe
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Seek and seize NEW OPPORTUNITIES even
when we are out of our comfort zone. Travel, hang out with young people, think about city building through the eyes of non-planners
Marni Cappe
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Nothing succeeds like
SUCCESSJohn Livey
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When I feel pessimistic, with further searching optimism will return. It always does.
Ray Spaxman
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Life is full of misery, loneliness and
suffering- and it’s all over much too soon
Woody Allen
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Optimism? It makes us look naive and ill-
informed. I like realism
Joe Berridge
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Thinking that I am doing the right thing and helping make
things better, even in a modest way
John Steil
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Stay connected with students. Their ENERGY and OPTIMISM is
contagiousGerry Couture
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Students seek advice and in turn impart their enthusiasm for their career ahead
Ann McAfee
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Welcome women into planning. They bring a CONSTRUCTIVE & COLLABORATIVE
approach to the business which helps society move
forward
N. Tunnacliffe (a man)
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Have a sense of
HUMOUR and don’t be afraid to share it
Mary Bishop
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“If you’re not fired with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired, with enthusiasm.”
Vince Lombardi, NFL coach
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Planners get to place a small mark on the canvas of those who came before us. Lucky us.
F .Lewinberg
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Planning is based on faith:
You must BELIEVE in a future;That this future could be better;That this possibly better future can be achieved through human efforts;That the human efforts involved include planning.
Hok-Lin Leung
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EXERCISE #1 – Adopting a Positive Attitude
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1. Reflection- How do you stay optimistic? (on post-it notes write one strategy per note)
2. Share with your group
3. Stick similar strategies together
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Nothing great was ever achieved WITHOUT ENTHUSIASM•
R. W. Emerson
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In admitting our WEAKNESSES, we find STRENGTH•
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By expressing UNCERTAINTY, we earn TRUST•
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And by acting with HUMILITY, we gain CONFIDENCE•
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These are PARADOXES•
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These PARADOXES of vulnerability are for us,
the key to achieving TRUE COLLABORATION•
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EXERCISE #2 – Inviting Collaboration Through Invitation
IN PAIRINGS OF TWO:
1. Share a problem (use ‘I feel’ statements).
2. The responder identifies and expresses empathy for the person sharing the problem.
3. The responder then asks a question to embark upon collaboration and possibility.
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The last of human freedomsis the ability to CHOOSE ONE’SATTITUDE in any given set of
circumstances•Viktor Frankl
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Is this FEAR just here to destroy me
or to tell me to do SOMETHING
about it?
Immaculée Ilibagiza
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From these stories, and our own professional experience, no one can
ever take our ATTITUDE or DIGNITY away from us•
These are ours, AND OURS ALONE•
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POSITIVE ENERGY
COLLEAGUESGRATITUDE
GENEROSITY
POSSIBILITY
AFFIRMATION
CITIZENS
CLIENTS
FAMILY
FRIENDSPOSITIVITY
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Why is this IMPORTANT?
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It is important because our work MATTERS•
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We can affect a GREATER GOOD when we ENVISION
a positive future with positive investments toward positive change•
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EXERCISE #3 – Sharing Positive Possibility
IN PAIRINGS OF TWO (WITH A DIFFERENT STRANGER):
1. Convey something about your work that you are looking forward to and why.
2. The respondent acknowledges the person’s enthusiasm (echoes this) and shows an understanding of what it is about.
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Continuing the conversation:
CIP new web site blog- Andrew Sacret,
Director, Policy & Public Affairs, CIP
Other ideas?
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