Prior to our trip to Chennai, India, for the Arts for Good Fellowship Programme, our homework was to explore the purpose of our work. We were introduced to the ‘golden circle’ exercise developed and popularised by Simon Sinek, Author of Start With Why. This sharing session is facilitated by one of the fellows, Brydie-Leigh Bartleet.
I displayed the organisation's purpose that I work in and mine to show the alignment between teachers and the organisation.
We spent some time doing a gallery walk and leaving responses on post-its for others on their golden circle. Then. we stood in a circle and explain the purpose(s) of our work. The person next to us will need to reiterate and paraphrase what we had said before moving to his/ her own purpose(s).
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| No prize for guessing which is mine. |
Getting to Know About Our Practice and Motivations Exercise
Rather than simply sharing WHAT we do as arts facilitators, programmers, educators, researchers and policymakers, and HOW our Organisations/
programs/projects do it, in this session we’re aiming to have a deeper
exchange. We’re going to share the WHY of what we do, in order to understand
the real purpose behind our work:
a) WHAT your arts for good program, practice or organisation does. List as many things as you like.
b) In the next circle, list HOW you achieve the things in the outer circle.
c) The final circle, the one in the middle, addresses the question: WHY do I do these things?
And here’s the challenge: there can only be one WHY.
