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Propelling is all about the energy to change. Leadership provides the 1. Self Identity by Marlyn Loden and enhanced by other concepts
energy to change through a compelling purpose, a shared dream and around the same from Erikkson.
embodying the change that one wants to see happen. Propelling 2. Self Awareness Wheel concept by Ronald Short and similar
others can happen only when one feels the source of one’s own models like Iceberg
energy. That is the essence of leadership.
3. Power, Privileges and Rank concept by Arnold Mindell
The pilot program also is based on the above model created by the 4. Diversity in Groups and In the Moment based on writings by
NVI team. However, this pilot program was a 5-day initiative Uma Jain and others in ISABS
followed by mentoring. Hence, from a design perspective, we limited 5. Presence and Somatics based on concepts by Thomas Hanna.
some of the elements from the larger model. The following 6. Beliefs Constructs around Immunity to Change by Keegan
dimensions were the focus for this program:
7. Appreciative Inquiry And The Power of Imagination by David
1. Self awareness- appreciating one’s identity as a person and being Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastava
aware of the owned and disowned parts of oneself. 8. T-Group and Here and Now work around self awareness,
2. Diversity sensivity – being sensitive to the diversity in the thinking and feeling, gender and other diversities and group
moment, both within onself and in the group. This goes beyond dynamics – based on various theories around group learning
the identity based diversity and includes thoughts and emotions and T-groups.
in the moment. All the above were weaved in together through the Learning
3. Presence and purpose – being aware of one’s limiting and process of experiencing, reflecting, conceptualising and
liberating beliefs and values that gives one the presence and experimenting ( David Kolb – learning styles). Hence we had two
helps to energize onself and others to work towards a shared experience sessions everyday ( either a T-Group or semi structured
purpose. experiences), followed by concept sharing and ending with
journaling for internalisation and application. On some days, there
Based on the above focus, Lalitha and Shankar did internet based were multiple learning cycles with one session of experience, one
research and studied books published in these areas over the last 5 session of concept and application and again another experiential
years. This led us to creating a design that takes the best of what we session, and so on.
have and also adding the wisdom of group processes that ISABS is
well anchored on. Participant engagement in the evolution of design in the here and
now was a value that we practiced and hence we dropped and
Some of the fundamental conceptual grounding we used in this added new areas as we went along without affecting the overall
program were:
focus of the program.

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