10 tweets · December 2020 · 22 likes · 3 retweets · read on Twitter
Our Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops have organically evolved a lot over the years. In fact, we're considering overhauling the landing page bc it still reads as fairly mainstream systematic, whereas at this point all of our coaches are metasystematic & consciously non-coercive.
As one past participant said, "if I'd just seen the landing page, I wouldn't have been interested... but seeing the landing page and knowing it was run by you—I was very intrigued." And he got a lot out of it! (I think this was @orpheaskk)
That's partially an evolution of my own thinking process—when we first launched the GCIs 4 years ago, I had only just started reading @Meaningness and was still very involved with the CFAR rationality community—I literally did 1 of their instructor trainings 3wks before GCI #1
Having said that, the philosophy for Complice & GCI has been remarkably meta-systematic the whole time… it's not based on trying to execute plans perfectly (tho GCI has an Execution module) but on improvising towards a purpose that can never be perfectly articulated.
So I think in some ways the evolution of the workshop can be thought of as it becoming the sort of thing it wanted to be in the first place, as the people hosting it matured & developed. Anyway, some specific examples of changes:
1: we're more likely to encourage people to integrate resistance now, vs trying to encourage them to use something like Beeminder or some other discipline-based approach. There's still value in those approaches sometimes tho! As one of our coaches notes:
2: relatedly, a bunch of the coaches have now studied emotional processing techniques and frameworks like Coherence Therapy, and we bring a bunch of those moves in, eg encouraging accessing unconscious emotional truths by getting people to speak out loud
3: last year for NY 2020, @SarahAMcManus & I added a new whole "long-term / decade" module to the course content, with content on topics we wouldn't have thought of 4 years ago: - Vision & Values - Navigating Uncertainty & Complexity - Becoming Resilient
GCI will evolve more, and we're also excited to help people host events on other topics using the same unique course structure we've developed, of choose-your-own-adventure content+exercises, coworking, & text-based live coaching. DM if interested.
And if you want to learn more about the event or sign up, you can do so here! As I said above, we have the capacity to go *way* deeper than you might imagine just from looking at this landing page. Feel free to show up and ask me/us about whatever! complice.co/event/plan2021…