I’m not familiar with the opposite type of circle format. I have a few events coming up over the next month, so might not get back around to this, but I’d like to put more thought into a format like this.
A couple of things that I have done that come to mind:
At a recent retreat, a colleague and I ran something like a doom circle followed by “gratitude/excitement” circles and I quite liked it.
In the “gentle” doom circle I described above we did something like an even split of doom followed by saying nice things. I found the nice really helpful too because I had blindspots about positive things that others in the group could see more easily.
Another thing that comes to mind is a quote from the Manger’s Handbook “It’s downright criminal to hold back positive feedback from people. Don’t be afraid to praise even tiny things. Remember that when you give negative feedback you’re generally picking up on tiny things.”
Thanks for raising this. I’ll be curious to hear if other people have done things in this direction.
I’m not familiar with the opposite type of circle format. I have a few events coming up over the next month, so might not get back around to this, but I’d like to put more thought into a format like this.
A couple of things that I have done that come to mind:
At a recent retreat, a colleague and I ran something like a doom circle followed by “gratitude/excitement” circles and I quite liked it.
In the “gentle” doom circle I described above we did something like an even split of doom followed by saying nice things. I found the nice really helpful too because I had blindspots about positive things that others in the group could see more easily.
Another thing that comes to mind is a quote from the Manger’s Handbook “It’s downright criminal to hold back positive feedback from people. Don’t be afraid to praise even tiny things. Remember that when you give negative feedback you’re generally picking up on tiny things.”
Thanks for raising this. I’ll be curious to hear if other people have done things in this direction.
Me neither really—I meant to refer to a hypothetical activity.
And thanks for the examples!