The Work Between UsZoom · 3 hours · elapsed time
Before we gather
Complete the Training Two readings. Bring your booklet, paper, and a pen. Watch the Touchstones orientation if needed. No additional platform or advance purpose statement is required.
Touchstones: Give and receive welcome · Respect other people’s truth · Honest, open questions · Turn to wonder · No fixing, saving, advising or correcting
Selected readings for this trainingArriving & noticing
0:00–0:15 · Image · Zoom chat
Look at the workbook landscape. What do you notice?
Facilitator notes
Share a single visual with quiet music during arrival. Invite a word in chat. Frame meaning as something to notice in experience. Revisit Touchstones, the option to pass, and the sequence of writing, chat, pairs, and groups. Cameras are optional.
A meaningful moment
0:15–0:35 · Private reflection
Remember a particular moment when your work felt worthwhile. What happened? Who was involved? What made it matter? What does it reveal about what you value?
Facilitator notes
Begin with silence. Keep reflection anchored in an actual moment, not a definition of purpose. Allow writing, drawing, or quiet thought.
A story of meaning
0:35–1:00 · Breakout pairs · chat harvest
Tell the story of that moment. Listen with curiosity.
Facilitator notes
Use pairs: about nine minutes each, with the remaining time for transitions and a chat harvest. The listener does not advise and may ask one honest, open question. Broadcast a two-minute warning. On return, ask what creates meaning; never request a partner’s story.
Where meaning lives
1:00–1:15 · Whole group
Where do people, contribution, values, and purpose appear in the patterns we are noticing?
Facilitator notes
Read selected chat themes. Invite reflection on alignment between stated purpose and lived experience. Introduce the organizational landscape: structures and relationships affect one another.
Screen break
1:15–1:25 · Off screen
Move, get water, and look away from the screen.
Facilitator notes
Keep all ten minutes. Display the return time in Zoom.
Values made visible
1:25–1:55 · Breakout groups of 3–4
I would know this value was alive in our organization if I regularly saw us…
Facilitator notes
Ask everyone to choose a personally meaningful PREVAIL value. Use concrete behaviors. Assign groups of 3–4, put instructions in chat before opening rooms, and broadcast reminders. Invite one behavior per group into chat on return.
From stated to lived values
1:55–2:15 · Whole group · quiet reflection
What conditions help us live these values? What conditions make that difficult?
Facilitator notes
Explore workload, meeting structures, communication, decisions, recognition, autonomy, and policies. Surface conditions without trying to diagnose the whole organization or solve a person’s situation.
Reset
2:15–2:20 · Off screen
Rest your eyes and stretch.
Facilitator notes
Protect this five-minute reset before the final conversation.
The contribution I want to make
2:20–2:40 · New breakout pairs
What contribution do I most want to make right now? What would help me make more of it?
Facilitator notes
Reshuffle pairs if possible. Allow about eight minutes per person plus transitions. Listen and wonder; do not advise. Make room for unfinished thinking.
One small alignment
2:40–2:55 · Private integration
What I value. How I want to show up. One small action I can actually live.
Facilitator notes
Invite a realistic step and a condition or support that would help. Participants keep commitments private unless they choose otherwise. Use the additional time for depth, not another digital artifact.
One word forward
2:55–3:00 · Chat closing
What is one word you want to carry forward?
Facilitator notes
Ask participants to type but wait to send; count down for a simultaneous chat waterfall. Pause to read. Thank participants and end at three hours.
Whole Group Debriefs
Whole Group Debrief · Arriving & noticing
What did the different things we noticed reveal about how each of us pays attention?
Chapter 3: Lead with Vulnerability · Journaling Prompt 1: Where Shall We Begin? · packet p. 9
How did beginning with presence and noticing, rather than information or an agenda, connect with your response to Where Shall We Begin?
Open this debrief in the trainingWhole Group Debrief · A story of meaning
What did sharing and listening help you discover about what makes work meaningful?
Chapter 8: Resilience, Renewal, and the Long View · Reflective Journal Prompt 1: what sustains you when work feels heavy or slow · packet p. 22
What connection do you notice between the meaning in the story you told and the people, inner resources, or rituals you identified as sustaining you?
Open this debrief in the trainingWhole Group Debrief · Where meaning lives
Across our stories, what conditions seem to help meaning grow?
Chapter 8: Resilience, Renewal, and the Long View · Implementation Invitation: Story—Rotate a Weekly Moment That Mattered · packet p. 23
How might a regular Moment That Mattered help preserve the sources of meaning we noticed across today’s stories?
Open this debrief in the trainingWhole Group Debrief · Values made visible
Which observable behavior made a value feel more alive than a statement or slogan?
Chapter 8: Resilience, Renewal, and the Long View · Ritual makes invisible values visible; Reflective Journal Prompt 3: collective resilience · packet p. 22
How could the behavior your group named become a repeatable ritual that makes a value visible and helps us sustain one another?
Open this debrief in the trainingWhole Group Debrief · From stated to lived values
What did we discover about how organizational conditions support or constrain meaningful contribution?
Chapter 10: Trust the Process—Tend the Landscape · Implementation Invitation 1: Do a Relational Soil Test · packet p. 30
How does the soil-test invitation to compare rituals with values illuminate one condition that supports or constrains the behavior your group proposed?
Open this debrief in the trainingWhole Group Debrief · The contribution I want to make
What did listening help you discover about the contribution you want to make or the support you need?
Chapter 10: Trust the Process—Tend the Landscape · Reflective Journal Prompt 1: cultivating conditions rather than forcing growth · packet p. 29
What would tending the conditions for your contribution look like, compared with trying to force its outcome?
Open this debrief in the trainingWhole Group Debrief · One word forward
What does our collection of closing words reveal about what this gathering has made possible?
Chapter 10: Trust the Process—Tend the Landscape · Reflective Journal Prompt 2: seeds planted and signs of early growth · packet p. 29
How does your closing word connect with a seed you want to tend through your One Small Alignment commitment?
Open this debrief in the trainingFeedback
Let us know how this gathering went for you so we can make it better going forward.