There are many great ideas presented in this talk on tribal leadership. Consider the following questions in your response:
What tribes do we have co-existing at IDCI? What is the result?
The presenter reveals five different points from which the individual views the world. What would you identify as your view? Considering the different views that individuals within our community might hold, is there one thing that unites us? What might that be? Consider IDCI as a whole. What would you say is our current view as a community? How do we move forward? How do we reach the other tribes within our community? Feel free to comment on any other ideas that inspired you as you watched the clip.
There are various tribes that are present at IDCI. These include various groups such as the outcasts, the elite popular kids, the nerds, the sports crowd, and the country kids from Thamesford, Oxford townships, and surrounding farms. As a result. these groups generally, co-exist peacefully. However, there is little interaction in between the different crowds. This is since the hobbies and interests of these groups differ greatly. One example is that while the outcasts generally into video games, the sports crowds is more concerned about recent developments in sports such as NFL football or NHL hockey. Other tribes can reach out together through general discussion. This will help to break down buriers and open people up to other points of view.
ReplyDeleteI would identify my view as stage two, which is "My Life Sucks." Now, I am not saying that my life overall sucks. To the contrary, I am quite content with my current state of affairs. However, the presenter in the video said that in this stage, individuals feel that the people around them are "morons." Personally, I feel that many of the individuals that I am surrounded by are morons, depending on who I am around. This makes it frustrating to engage in discourse with other people since they do not wish to discuss relevant socio-political issues.
Consider the differing viewpoints that individuals in our school hold, I think that there are some causes that unite us. I would not consider school spirit a uniting cause, since I find much of the school to be quite apathetic to school activities such as sports buy-outs or pep-rallies. One type of cause that I think unites people at our school are charitable causes such as #Joeystrong. This since we all share common moral and ethical views regarding health and welfare of our fellow human beings; we do not desire to see other people suffer, whatsoever. Moving foreword, I believe that our school can achieve results in causes such as #Joeystrong by binding together, raising funds, and coming up with other initiatives to raise money for the cause.
I agree with this statement, most people do behave based on how they see the world. If someone watches the news they see all that bad stuff and would begin to think life sucks after hearing, seeing something over and over you begin to believe it. In idci we have a lot of tribes, they range from stage 1-5 we have the people who think life sucks so they just don’t get involved to the people who loves life, loves themselves and gets involved all the time
ReplyDeleteThe stage where I myself am at is stage 5 I believe life is great and I’m always trying to meet new people and getting other people to meet and talk for example... I hang out in several different groups or taking two people that I know but they don’t know each other and introducing them
stage 4 is where idci mostly connects all of us because it’s the stage where your saying we're great and really a lot of us believe we're great not matter which area or click or stage of people you hang out in.
The way we can move forward is just to understand and approach all the stages every time and not exclude or set back anyone because of where their personal stage is at
I really thought that the stages were very accurate and liked how he pointed out that nobody just starts at stage 5. All the other stages are part of being at stage five; also when you're at the 5th stage don’t just forget about the other stages. Help other people achieve that stage also
To me I feel like there are tribes that separate our student body. To me there isn't a huge barrier but there is still a faint line. There are those popular richer kids, then the sporty group, the nerds, the alma street kids and then then to me the rest jst kind of fall into little spin off categories. For example most popular kids wouldn't overly want to associate with the alma street kids and vise versa. You hangout with people based on common interests, hobbies, etc., so therefore you aren't going to hangout with people if you don't have something in common. And to me that is where the faint line would come into play.
ReplyDeleteI'd say for me that I'd be a four or a five. But saying this I do also think I can be a 3 mentally. Meaning I do not say it out loud but it is kind of like a first impression. You don't mean for it to happen, it just does. Me myself, if I was to meet somebody totally random for the first time, I would compare myself to them and find something that I could be better at, or something that I have more of. Within me making my first impression. The third stage is kind of like you're judging someone and that's what you do during a first impression moment. But that always isn't the case, I know first impression aren't always accurate but it is natural to have one. But other than that I give myself a 4 because I know that I am weird and most of the people that know me would agree. I say level 5 too because I do love my life. I never say that "I hate life" or that "My life sucks" or anything like that because to me, life can b rough and rocky in some areas but most of the time things even out and things get better. For me that is. I know some people do not have that in their lives, and that's why I try to smile and make other peoples day better.
For IDCI as a school I'd say we are a level 4. An example of this would be Stair Climb. For the kids that went, We walked/ ran into that arena with painted faces and foam fingers and high socks, etc., we all knew we looked and were acting really weird but we all accepted it. We all knew we were being weird and we accepted that.
To me I feel IDCI is pretty connected as a whole. some may disagree but from my perspective that's how I feel about it. I think that we should continue with events like Stair Climb and even Challenge day but make it an option to have everybody go. Instead of having it for 2 days, maybe extend it for a week. We can just do it in our school without the challenge day people and what not, because I know it might not be possible for the leaders to come for a week, but have it run by teachers or a leadership class and just get together to talk about their feelings to connect and join us. That way our school doesn't have just random splotches of people who have been to challenger day, instead our entire school would have participated. If that makes sense.