Over the last few months, I have been learning from Ellen Weber and Robyn McMaster of the MITA International Brain Based Center. My goal has been to explore how brain-based learning could help with tackling trust issues.
Under Ellen and Robyn’s expert guidance, I have been working on a tool that could be used to help one person reach out to build trust with another. You will see that it incorporates the five principles noted in my last post.
The tool can be used as a stand-alone self-help vehicle or as a resource for coaching. I am at the stage where I would like to begin testing its use and would certainly encourage your feedback — particularly if you use it to help with your own personal trust-building efforts. Please feel free to email me with feedback and questions.
Like you may be, I’m just trying to figure this stuff out. One of the innovations of the process I describe is that it is largely based on a reflective, intrapersonal approach rather than a formulaic prescription for interpersonal behavior.
You can download this free tool as a pdf document by clicking this link: To Reach Out, Reach In.
Ultimately, I’d like to include the tool as another resource available on my Team Trust Survey website. I appreciate the generosity of all of you who might be willing to take a look.
I am very grateful to Ellen and Robyn. They are extraordinary spirits and fabulous teachers.
Wow Dan, what’s unique and exciting here is the impact you bring to leadership from angles that need help — and get ignored! Those intrapersonal snags hold people back in ways that truncate talents that could put this nation on a rocket toward innovation and success!
Dan, this work is craved by leaders who want to make a difference, and yet find themselves slogging through the mire of leadership without trust at its core!
Love the way arts and science merge organically in your work! This is whole brain thinking and fell aside with our push for one and then the other side.
You have me curious about your next dynamite levels of engagement, Dan!
How will you move the instruments you designed so well here into leadership pathways to improve broken parts?
Ellen — Thanks for dropping by!
As I mention in this post, I ultimately do want to post the tool to the Team Trust Survey website as a resource for anyone who wants to take a broken or unexplored relationship to the next level.
But I think your lovely “two-footed” question about moving the tool into leadership pathways propels a deeper answer. For me that answer is to make the tool — from a spiritual perspective — a kind of “offering” in the sense of a gift or contribution. In this regard, I may want to ask certain clients if this approach would be of value to them and then serve as a personal consultant to support their work to cross a selected trust divide. Or the framework might be part of a training session I could do where many come to work on their relationships, using this tool as a template for learning.
Anyone who wants to reach out to build trust with another as an act of personal leadership can always ask me for assistance. But even if they do not desire this kind of one-on-one help, the full map is still there for them in the form of this tool, and it can be an ongoing option for how they might proceed on their own.
As always, thank you so much for your wonderful guidance and teaching toward MITA Certification!