Scenario: Door

Written by DrBea on March 20, 2023. Posted in WIAL Talk

As an action learning coach, how would you handle the following situation: At the start of the session a participant gets up and closes a door.

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Liliia Bilous

March 23, 2023 at 5:15 pm | #

The most probably I would wait for a second to give the space for one of group members to react ( the very usual reaction is a humor), or I will ask «if the closed door means that nobody goes out before clear solution will be found». Light joke can be good icebreaker.
Or will build on the story on analogy that any door we encounter can lead to a story, an opportunity, a solution and how it is important to choose the good door to open for new opportunities, the same as identify the good problem to find clear solutions.

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Liang CHen

May 31, 2023 at 11:05 pm | #

I would say: I see that the partners have closed the door to create a safe environment for us, and in our next action learning meeting, I also hope that we will leave the whole content of our discussion in this room, trust each other, be open and honest, and produce efficiently

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