Hodder Education
Dancing with Discomfort: A framework for noticing, naming, and navigating our in-between moments
Dancing with Discomfort: A framework for noticing, naming, and navigating our in-between moments
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Transitions are universal. They include the important and familiar milestones of starting kindergarten, graduating from high school or college, and becoming employed, parents, or retirees. These transitional moments, however, also include unexpected or unanticipated events like losing a job, joining a running club, or experiencing a global pandemic. In each of these moments, individuals, groups, and organizations experience the anxiety, self-doubt, worry, and uncertainty associated with these novel experiences. Our natural response to these moments is to avoid, side-step, or hurry through until this moment of transition is over. The problem with these strategies is that while we are trying to shut out the unpleasant feelings of those moments, we also miss all the possibilities and discovery. What if we invested time, training, and space to learn, experiment with and strengthen our ability to wrestle with and successfully navigate these moments of transition? Whether a significant transition like moving into a new school or just shifting from one project to the next, we need to build strategies and techniques to leverage and learn from the discomfort that individuals experience during these moments. This book offers names and faces for our feelings, thoughts, and reactions in our transitions. It is based on sound research and data collected by the author and other researchers but is also based on the author’s experiences, mistakes, reflection, and learning from doing the work in different contexts. It includes a framework to learn to stay in these transitions, embrace dissonance, and leverage these moments of discovery. Whether you want to introduce this transitions framework and strategies in a classroom, boardroom, or your own life, this book is for you and your organization to start the intentional work to create spaces, and time to name, feel, explore, reflect on, and move through the myriad transitions occurring during our personal and professional journeys.

Language
English
ISBN
9781914351600
About the author
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contributing authors
Introduction
How to use this book
Chapter 1: The roadmap
Questions to consider: who, what, where, why, and how?
What and where?
Where?
The why and how of this work
Attitude
Dancing with discomfort
Learning identity
Reflection in and after action
Training plan: readiness for change
What this book is and is not
Chapter 2: Who and what?
The who
The “what” of transitions
Chapter 3: Where? Why? And How?
Where?
Why?
Assumptions we make
Emotions and cognition
Improved performance and well-being
Return on investment
How?
Warm-up
Intervals
Rest and reflection
Other strategies
Chapter 4: Training with attitude
Grace
Gratitude
Greatness
High expectations
Kindness, patience, and discipline
Greatness all your own
Chapter 5: Normalize the discomfort
Discomfort
Sources of discomfort
Fear of failure
Binary thinking
Conception of a role and imposter syndrome
Setbacks = failures, valuing outcomes over process
Learning to normalize the discomfort
Chapter 6: Learning identity
Mindset
Mistakes as opportunities
Novice and expert
Deliberate practice
Transparency
Vulnerability and courage
Community
Chapter 7: Critical reflection and tracking your progress
Critical reflection
Implementing a reflection practice
Appreciative inquiry
What, so what, now what
Barriers
Time
Novice expert paradox
Return on investment
Reflecting on reflection
Chapter 8: Transitions training
The program
Four stages of the program
Warm-up
Practice/training
Performance: “race” day
Pause and rest
Support FOR OUR TRANSITIONS
Chapter 9: Warm-up and rest
Warm-up
Check-in
Group norms and designing relationships
Lesson warm-up
Pause and rest
Activities
Chapter 10: Practice – Intervals
Effort levels
Low-impact
Recovery
High-intensity training
How to practice: sample training routines
Daily schedule
Individual activities
Low-impact
High-intensity
Recovery
Chapter 11: Performance and seeing the field
Performance
Slowing down to speed up
High-performing teams
Strategies
Grace and grit
Mindfulness, time, and patience
Reflection and evaluation
Learning identity
Celebrate curiosity
Conclusion
Chapter 12: Reflections and final thoughts
Final thoughts
References
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