Tent Talks Featuring: Andrea Mignolo

Here are the main points from the Tent Talks session with Andrea Mignolo titled, “Getting Started in the Coaching Leadership Style”:

Evolution of Coaching Leadership
- Emphasizes deepening the practice, moving from having answers to embracing uncertainty.
- Encourages curiosity, creativity, playfulness, and reduces stress.
- Recognizes the complexity of humans and organizations and leverages collective sensing for innovation.Integration of Realization Process and Dreamtending
- Realization Process: An embodied approach enhancing presence and awareness, helps in releasing body constrictions.
- Dreamtending: Works with dreams and subconscious levels to tap into deeper information and creativity.
- Both methodologies deepen leadership presence and enhance coaching practices.Developing Coaching Leadership Skills:
- Learning Container: Create daily structures for mindfulness and reflection.
- Daily Practices: Five minutes of morning awareness, end-of-day reflection questions, and trying small practical changes.
- Addressing Difficult Conversations: Coaching helps in addressing these earlier, building collective awareness without blame.Understanding of Organizational Awareness
- Leaders may have a broader view but not necessarily a more detailed view.
- Uses everyone's unique perspectives to build capacity and find innovative solutions.Connecting Coaching Skills to Life
- Coaching skills are about daily practice, integrating awareness, curiosity, presence, and responsiveness.
- They are not just tools but a way of being, fostering an environment that supports growth, innovation, and connection.Practical Guidance for Skill Development
- Start with simple daily practices, engage in reflective questioning.
- Be patient with oneself, recognizing that the shift to a coaching leadership style doesn't happen overnight.
- Consider deeper methodologies like the Realization Process and Dreamtending if they resonate.Technology Impact
- Awareness of the increasing influence of technology.
- Balancing technological advancements with the human need for connection and understanding.
- The importance of understanding the design of technology and its effect on human interaction.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!