It’s not Sunday evening (it’s Friday evening) but I’ve had a bit of a tough week and I’m looking for a nice undemanding task to round off the day, so here’s a bunch of old saved links I’m checking out.
This week’s 12 links:
- A link to a pdf document on the Berkeley University website, titled “Dialogues of Belonging: the Circle of Human Concern”. It’s a lesson plan with suggested facilitation tools:
“What is The Circle of Human Concern? This workshop highlights the intentional design of corporations smuggling themselves into private and public space. It discusses the four spheres of society: public; private; non-public, non-private; and corporate. Participants contextualize the inquires for this session through a brief historical overview of capitalization and corporations. The following learning design amplifies and lifts up john a. powell’s call that “We must insist that people, all people, belong inside the circle of human concern, not corporations.” This call also includes the interests of the earth and all living beings who are being pushed out by corporate interests.”
>>> Participants will leave with an understanding of why corporations have individual rights, why it is morally unjust and the actions needed to bring change to the system. Participants will leave with increased value of a public and private life and knowledge on how corporations infringe on our lives. Participants will continue to develop the skills needed to create spaces of belonging.
Tags: community - A dead link to a related pdf document on the Berkeley University Website, titled “Belonging in Praxis: the Circle of Human Concern”.
- A dead link to a related pdf document on the Berkeley University Website, titled “Expanding Belonging: the Circle of Human Concern”.
- A research paper on “Enhancing the inclusivity and accessibility of your online calls”:
“This article describes formats and tools for designing online training calls for accessibility. Measures include high-quality real-time or post-hoc transcriptions or closed-captions for spoken content in calls, providing writing-based interactive discussions, and consulting with experts and people with lived experience before any of these actions are implemented. Many of these options are cost-free, although sometimes for-pay alternatives may offer better accessibility if funding is possible. Finally, iteration and feedback are essential parts of accessibility design in participatory events including online calls. As organisers, we should accept that we may make mistakes and hence, ensure that we build pathways to enable evidence and experience-based improvements. These measures will aid participation for a broad audience but may be especially helpful for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, people for whom the call language isn’t their preferred language, and people who are not comfortable speaking in front of a group.”
Tags: accessibility - “8 Types of Mentors and Their Role in the Workplace”, article on the Together Platform. I was researching mentoring models for a project a few years back, and I kept this one because it had an interesting breakdown of mentoring types / archetypes with a few questions to identify which styles are relevant to you: advisor, protector, coach, connection broker, challenger, clarifier, sponsor, affirmer. (Also more general info about mentoring in the workplace.)
Tags: working, mentoring - “How nature can alter our sense of time”, article on The Conversation. Research suggests that the antidote to our feeling of lack of time may lie in the natural world: being in nature may change how we experience time and, perhaps, even give us the sense of time abundance.
Tags: nature, time - Resource on the NCState University website titled: “From A-to-Z: Lesley-Ann Noel and Decolonizing Design”, which presents Lesly-Ann Noel’s work including a deck of cards she’s developed called “the Designer’s Critical Alphabet”, and her positionality wheel tool. I often reference the latter in workshops and training sessions about EDI and about power.
Tags: EDI, power - A tumblr post to a little 5-panels zine by @koddlet which is still one of my favourite things ever, so I’m glad I’d saved the link and I’ve come across it again. You can make zines that are far from perfect and that’s ok! Also it’s so scrappy and expressive and funny. I’m posting the panels below in case the tumblr post ever disappears.
Tags: zines - A dead link to a page on “Reflective Practice in Organisations” on Timonthy Malnick’s website. He’s reorganised his website since I saved the link – he offers coaching and leadership support.
- The Midnight Burger podcast website. I had forgotten about this indie podcast, which started during the pandemic. Adding it to my podcast app.
“Midnight Burger is an audio drama about the adventures of a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner… When Gloria took a waitressing job at a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn’t realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with it’s staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appears there’s always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee.” - A New York Times article titled “A deceptively simple way to rebuild trust in scary times”, but unfortunately it’s behind a paywall.
- The “Leaving and Waving” photographic project by Deanna Dikeman, an intensely moving series of photos over several decades.
“For 27 years, I took photographs as I waved good-bye and drove away from visiting my parents at their home in Sioux City, Iowa. I started in 1991 with a quick snapshot, and I continued taking photographs with each departure. I never set out to make this series. I just took these photographs as a way to deal with the sadness of leaving. It gradually turned into our good-bye ritual. (…) In 2009, there is a photograph where my father is no longer there. He passed away a few days after his 91st birthday. My mother continued to wave good-bye to me. Her face became more forlorn with my departures. In 2017, my mother had to move to assisted living. For a few months, I photographed the good-byes from her apartment door. In October of 2017 she passed away. When I left after her funeral, I took one more photograph, of the empty driveway. For the first time in my life, no one was waving back at me.”
That’s it for this week.
My time to read: 50 mins
