{"id":385,"date":"2015-10-03T16:26:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/experienceengagement\/?p=385"},"modified":"2015-10-03T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T16:26:42","slug":"thirty-five-whats-a-key-idea-that-guides-your-engagement-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalismthatmatters.org\/experienceengagement\/2015\/10\/03\/thirty-five-whats-a-key-idea-that-guides-your-engagement-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Five: What\u2019s a key idea that guides your engagement work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Thirty-Five\"<\/a>At Experiencing Engagement on Friday afternoon, we used an exercise called \u201cThirty Five\u201d \u2014 involving 3\u00d75 index cards \u2014 to bubble up key words and phrases most important to participants. The way it worked: People wrote a word or phrase on a card. Then we circulated and passed cards. Each pair of people discussed the two cards they held, and wrote on the back two nmbers \u2014 one on each card \u2014 which together numerically totaled seven. Then we circulated and did this again \u2014 five times. Eventually each card had a set of numbers on the back, ranging from 0 to 7. Summing the numbers \u201cranked\u201d each card \u2014 and the phrase on it. Here\u2019s background on this debriefing \u201cgame\u201d:
\nhttp:\/\/www.thiagi.com\/archived-games\/2015\/2\/22\/thirty-five-for-debriefing<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what we came up with:<\/p>\n

25 Reciprocity
\n25 Elevate authentic voices
\n24 It\u2019s to be honest, authentic and true with those I\u2019m working with, to follow through on promises so trust can be built because without that quality everything falls apart
\n24 Desire to go beyond \u201ctwo sides\u201d of the issue
\n23 Build bridges between empathy (personal interest stories, arts expression, local connections) and data (context, backstory, facts, charts) as well as \u201caction\u201d (more from consumer to doer)
\n23 Empathy, building to create connection to create a more compassoinate world
\n22 Work with those most affect, not those who claim to represent them
\n22 Don\u2019t work alone; invest in relationships as much mor more than products
\n22 Engagement is partly about sharing control and ownership
\n21 is the person in front of me (or on the line) feeling like he\/she\/they have been listened to?
\n21 We need our engagement work to be more intentional \u2014 with planning, someone to shepard it, and ways to evaluate the success of the effort
\n21 Honesty about where we are and where we want to go
\n21 Empowerment
\n21 Openness (to new perspectives, ideas, partnerships, etc. etc.)
\n20 Inclusion \u2014 finding unpopular and unheard voices
\n20 Listen from the ground up
\n20 Trust built over time
\n20 Context
\n20 Meet people where they area, not where I want them to be
\n20 Accountability
\n19.5 Curiousity
\n19 Caring
\n19 Authenticity, going deep
\n19 Mutual respect
\n19 Meaning \/ trust \/ dialogue
\n19 Humility
\n19 Trust: Without trust, engagement is at best incomplete and at worst non-existent or even toxic. We live in untrustworthy times, so we need better models.
\n19 Understanding
\n19 Exposure to and appreciation of diverse political views
\n18.5 Community of subscribers and loyal supporters speak to us all the time \/ inclusion
\n18 Who benefits
\n18 Connecting
\n18 Inclusiveness
\n18 Listening to understand, not explain
\n18 Transparency equals (?) honesty
\n18 Connectivity
\n18 Work with, not for, people
\n18 Authentic
\n17.5 Listening \/ empathy
\n17 Integrity
\n17 Authentic collaboration
\n17 People need to feel hurt
\n17 Storytelling
\n17 Solution based
\n17 Know thyself beyond all things in order to be fully available for others. Practice seeing every person in their full dignity, without labels, without diminishing thjem.
\n17 Engagement is worthwhile for everyone involved \u2014 everyone gets something from it
\n17 Holding the space for engagement
\n17 Inclusion
\n17 Open heart and mind
\n16 Do what you can to allow stories to flow between people \u2014 the shortest distance between two people is a story
\n16 Someone in the \u201caudience\u201d knows much more about any subject than we as journalists
\n16 Supporting self determination
\n16 Compassion
\n15 Carve out time to collaborate without distractions
\n14 Buy in from the newsroom
\n14 Residents: Connecting I to us.
\n14 Democracy
\n14 All opinions matter
\n13.5 Synthesis
\n13 Trustworthy engagement
\n13 Justice: Bedrock value that informs my engagement.
\n13 That I am not doing enough of the right type of engagement
\n12.5 Engagement is about redefining the role of media so that our resources and expertise continue to have value for readers
\n12 Remember the people
\n12 To be useful
\n11 Authenticity
\n10 People already know what needs to be done; I\u2019d like to give people a tool to do that
\n10 Not being contained by speed but pay attention to practicality
\n9 Rawness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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