ICSW Member Tools & Exercises

Change Assessment Inventory
Listed below are some general categories of importance to managerial leaders.  You may or may not have noticed change in each category in recent years.  For each category, please check the point on the scale that matches your own sense of the degree of change that has occurred.  There are no objective answers for most of these items.  What are sought are your subjective impressions.  For your time horizon, pick a point in the past at least three and no more than eight years ago more (pdf)

Edgewalkers: Leaders of the 21st Century
Edgewalkers have an uncanny knack for knowing the future, create new rules to the game, an others see them as risk-takers. Meet some of these leaders through this Power Point presentation. more

Circle of Balance
Categories:  Work, family, romance, community, play, nature, spirituality, self more (pdf)

Cultural Creative
Are you a Cultural Creative ? Find out here (pdf)

Factoids
Teaser- In Time Magazine, there is a Time/CNN poll that offers the following statistics: 81% of respondents think that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 will impact their lives in the future. 57% have thought more about the spiritual part of their lives since the attacks. 62% feel the need to spend more time with family members. 55% experience a greater focus or purpose in life. These facts and more here

The Four Whys
Now that we have defined the purpose, audience, and desired impact of vision, mission, and values statements and shown how they relate to the seven levels of corporate consciousness, I want to describe a method for creating statements that address the specific needs of employees, customers, and society. The method is called the Four Whys more (pdf)

Gail Rogan Questionnaire on Spirituality in the Workplace
find the questionnaire here (pdf)

Job Burnout
Checking you Inner Battery: Review your life over the last six months, both at work and away from work.  Then read over the items below and rate how often each symptom is true of you.  When you’re done, add up your score. more (pdf)

Job, Career, or Mission: Submitted by Richard Barrett
Group Exercise Materials required:  Three flip chart stands with pads, magic markers. Paper and pens for each participant.
Instructions:  The group facilitator writes "Job Mentality" at the top of one flip chart page, "Career Mentality" at the top of the next, and "Mission Mentality" at the top of the third.  The facilitator then asks the group to brainstorm meanings of "Job", then "Career", then "Mission", and these are written on the flip charts.  more (pdf)

Kurth Meditation Exercises
Guided Meditation Instructions: Take a comfortable upright posture, with your spine elongated and your feet flat on the floor. (pause) And gently close your eyes.  Take a few deep breaths (pause) and then see if you can become aware of the feelings and sensations in your body that have been evoked by your inquiry into suffering in the workplace.  Notice any tension in your body, any tightening of muscles, any feelings that may be coming from your response to your inquiry into suffering. more (pdf)

Labyrinth Exercises
Materials: Masking tape, 4 magic markers:  blue, red, yellow, green, 8x11 paper, 3x5 cards
Mark out an equi-cross with a circle in the center, using masking tape on the floor.Participants are given 3x5 cards and asked to write their impressions of the color yellow.  “Write whatever comes into your mind about the color yellow.” Now repeat that for red, blue, and green. Pair and share. Debrief. more (pdf)

The Labyrinth: A Life-giving Tool for Organizations
The labyrinth is an ancient spiritual ritual common to cultures as varied as the Aztecs, Native Americans, and 14th century Catholic monks.  It is a form of walking meditation where one walks on a path marked on the floor or the ground, beginning on the outside of a circle and gradually working your way to the center.  After some time for reflection in the center, the walker returns the way he or she came, gradually working one’s way towards the outside of the labyrinth and to the exit. more (pdf)

The Medicine Wheel
Individual Version: East, West, North, South more (pdf)

Quantum Trusting
A four part exercise try it (pdf)

The 'S' Word
In this session we explore the appropriateness of talking about spirituality in the classroom.  As more attention has been focused on spirituality in the workplace (Neal, 1997) there is a growing debate in academe about whether or not to bring spirituality into class discussion and if so, how.  more

Spiritual Lifeline:  An integrative exercise by Judi Neal
This exercise allows you to reflect on significant events in your spiritual life and in your career life.  Often we keep these two parts of our lives separate.  By creating lifelines for our spiritual paths and for our career paths, we can begin to examine how these parts of our life may actually overlap. more (pdf)

Spiritual Intelligence at Work by Judi Neal 2004
Please read each statement below and decide to what degree you either agree or disagree with the statement take the assessment (pdf)

Trust Self-Diagnosis Scale
Instruction:  In front of each of the following items, place the letter that corresponds to your degree of agreement or disagreement with that statement. more (pdf)

Inquiry Process: Workplace Suffering
(based in Eugene Cash's Vipassana Buddhist Spirit Rock retreat of 2/01)
Explanation for the process: An inquiry process is a different way to knowledge; in it we seek knowledge as it emerges within ourselves, our mind/body, rather than from the familiar external sources of teachers, books and empirical research.  It's another path to knowledge.  more (pdf)

The Urgency Index (Covey)
I seem to do my best work when I am under pressure. I often blame the rush and press of external things for my failure to spend deep, introspective time with myself. more (pdf)