LEADERSHIP 101

What concrete steps/actions/plans can you do to work with the concepts from the course with your students and /or your academic team?    Something that keeps me thinking a lot lately is how to promote tolerance and acceptance to diversity in our students, our society. I understand being empathetic does not happen overnight. I also understand that this is essential for accepting who we are and for accepting we all share a common place and we all need to live in community. I think this is what I have to start working on, including some food for thought activities in our everyday lessons.  Simple situations vulnerable people or minorities often go through and motivate critical thinking so as to get conclusions and action plans to start focusing on changes: attitude, perception, etc. This, of course, should be followed up regularly.  This way, we can have a good start and begin to see everything from different perspectives so we can understand what others feel and live a...

  Dare to Lead Complete the following sentences and respond:  When I share something personal and vulnerable, and I really feel understood, it feels great because these are moments in which you need to feel empathy and that you are not alone. When I share something personal and vulnerable, and I don’t feel as if anyone understands, I feel lonely because these are times to hear a different view, times to feel people care to make you feel important -because you are not feeling that way .  When I share something personal and vulnerable, I like the person listening to (ideal empathetic response):  Select all that apply _ ✔ __ Make eye contact ___Look away so I don’t feel so self-conscious ___Reach out to hug me ___Give me my space ___Respond right away _ ✔ __Just listen and stay quiet _ ✔ __ ask me questions to make me think (add your own) When someone shares something painful and personal with me, I: Select all that apply. ___Worry about saying the wrong thing _ ✔ __...

Connected Wisdom What came to your mind after reading chapter 6 and the story of “Too Much Sky”? What are 2-3 ways, if any, that the lessons of the story link to your real life? Please describe the connection(s) I see this story connected to what we sometimes take for granted. We don’t tell people around us we love them. We don’t show them we care because we assume they know. Once we lose them, it is then when we regret not telling them and wish we had them back with us but it is no longer possible. Those are our commons in a family: our kids, our parents, our spouses, bros and sis, best friends. They provide us energy, they move us, they give us love and motivation but sometimes, we seem not to care.  And also something very simple like being responsible with the water we use at home, we brush our teeth and keep the water running, wash the dishes and keep the water running. Last week, energy problems at my apartment made them cut the power off, consequently no water, since we have...

Ideas into Action What are 2-3 ways you can put ideas from this course into action with your students or your teaching teams? As for my students, I think that there are many aspects that are important to work in class: empathy is something we need so much as a country. We first need to be thankful for what we have so we can then understand those who lack things. Lots of reflection making in class. It is difficult to understand when you have not been in that position; I can understand it because I have, but those who haven't may not be able to. It is actually hard work, but I believe it also starts with identification, with feeling that you belong, if you don't feel included, if you don't feel you belong you don't care, you don't feel like helping, you don't see what matters, because it is not yours, because they are not your people, etc. Big challenge ahead to transform the country, we need to start transforming the classroom, parents need to start transforming ...

Individual Reflection  Dare to Lead Brene Brown notes that in order to reverse shame, we need to be able to recognize it and to know it in its different forms. Brown has some sentence frames that help to do this. Complete the following sentences:  When I hear the word shame, I think of being a bad example to my kids If shame were a color, it would be gray If I could taste shame, it would taste like rotten fish If I could smell shame, i t would smell like rotten fish too. If I could touch shame, it would feel like a sharp blade I physically feel shame in/on my brain My shame symptoms include burning inside and feeling my head weighs a ton I know I’m in shame w hen I feel like not looking at anyone in the eyes When I’m in shame, I feel like burning inside. When I talk about shame, I feel relieved I can talk about shame with my oldest daughter or one of my best friends. After completing each of the sentences above, answer the following:  The new thing I learned about sham...

  1. What impact did the discussion have on you or what was interesting or useful? Unfortunately, I wasn't able to meet my group and I feel sorry for that because this is actually what is necessary to keep growing and working on our assignments. Benefiting from the enriching experiences of the group, getting the best of their views and specially the good vibes you feel from them.  The impact in this sense is definitely the sense of "something missing" , I usually complement my readings and analysis with the experiences of my team members but this time I didn't have the chance to share with them how important I consider their views to make my assignments complete. There is always something new and different that always add up.  2. What ideas did you discuss that you would like to remember or to continue to think about? Definitely the idea of working on developing empathy in our students, in our communities, in our organizations. We can see in our country nowadays how i...