Growth
Chapter 3 - Experiential Growth Method®
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Welcome to the Growth page
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Growth is the second concept of the "Experiential Growth Method®".
Growth here is an anthropological concept (Greek: ανθρωπολογία - man - is a science that studies man in all his aspects, both physical and cultural).
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| Nature never betters one characteristic. It enhances the whole. In business, optimisation of the individual (with productivity as a goal) should be replaced by improving the team, the department, and the entire organisation. |
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Core idea
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| But by approximately 70,000 year ago, we have unambiguous evidence of the advent of a full-scale “Cognitive Revolution” that empowered Homo sapiens to do what they have been doing ever since: transform the world, for better and for worse, through cognition and cooperation. This is the point at which human beings began to create culture, processing their environments through symbols and signs, which they continuously recombined and rearranged in language.It is the point, we can be certain, at which human beings began to stop treating the world, as other creatures do, essentially as a given, and their relationship to it as fixed. It is the point, as one observer aptly puts it, “when history declared its independence from biology". (1) |
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| (1) | Equality - D. McMahon - Ithaka - 2024 |
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Deep dive
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GROW as an acronym
The GROW model of coaching has been designed by Sir John Whitmore and is central to his best-selling book ‘Coaching for Performance’. This coaching model can be used to structure mentoring conversations. In a 2009 article, John Whitmore claimed that Max Landsberg coined the name GROW during a conversation with Graham Alexander and that Whitmore was the first to publish it in the 1992 first edition of his book Coaching for Performance. Landsberg also published it a few years later in the 1996 first edition of his book The Tao of Coaching. Elsewhere Whitmore said that the model had been in use for some time before it was given the name GROW. Alan Fine's 2010 book You Already Know How to Be Great claimed that Fine had codeveloped the model with Whitmore and Alexander. Other (later) similar models include collaborative helping maps in family therapy and Gabriele Oettingen's WOOP model. (1)
Goal
Define a clear and specific goal that we want to achieve.
Reality
Assess the current situation, including any obstacles or challenges that may be preventing from achieving the goal.
Options
Brainstorm potential solutions and strategies for overcoming the obstacles and achieving the goal.
What is to be done?
Identify any actions that need to be taken and create a plan for moving forward, including a timeline and accountability measures.
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WOOP as an acronym
WOOP (an acronym for Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan) is a scientific strategy that people can use to identify and fulfill their wishes and change their habits. It is a combination of two self-regulatory strategies: mental contrasting by psychologist Gabriele Oettingen and implementation intentions by psychologist Peter M. Gollwitzer. Mental contrasting contributes the “WOO” part (Wish, Outcome, Obstacle) in WOOP, whereas Implementation Intentions contribute the “P” part (Plan). (2)
Mental contrasting
Mental contrasting (MC) is a self-regulatory strategy to change cognition, emotion, and behavior. It was introduced introduced by psychologist Gabriele Oettingen (New York University, University of Hamburg) in 1997. It enables people to discriminate between feasible and unfeasible wishes and concerns. This, in turn, strengthens wish fulfillment and goal pursuit when expectations of success are high, and weakens it when expectations of success are low, thus allowing people to adjust their aspirations or pursue alternative more promising goals. In mental contrasting, you first positively fantasize about a wishedfor future and then mentally elaborate the current reality that stands in the way of realizing that future. By imagining the future and then imagining the critical obstacles of reality, people understand that in order to realize the wished-for future, one has to act on the current reality.
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