“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break, it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” — Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms




0-1: Q&A Orientation

LISTEN! LITE Schedule for the “0” Program (R&D):

• Orientation: February 24, 2025
• INTRO: March 3, 2025
• PING: March 10, 2025
• PROBE: March 17, 2025
• PROMPT: March 24, 2025
• PERMIT: March 31, 2025
• PERTURB: April 7, 2025
• PAUSE: April 14, 2025
• PACE: April 21, 2025
• CLOSE: April 28, 2025

The LISTEN! LITE (LL) program will consist of:
4-segments of 10 min each and numbered with the call# first – segment# last.

Example:
2 min welcome
(Before call begins)
─ Quote

1-1: Q&A

1-2: Session Content

1-3: Session Application

1-4: Q&A on session*

Since segments have a 10-min limit, any Q&A after the limit (10 min segment or 40 min call) will be moved to the next call.

Q&A from prior call, questions, logistics, announcements.

Optional: to launch Segment 2 at any time after we have allotted for the content and have time left — to conserve time for the final Q&A

0 – 2:  10 min (total)

Before segment 1 begins:

ADMIN WELCOME (attendance) & EQUIPMENT CHECK

@20 Min before call email from Gary with:

1. Link to Class Page
2. W/watch video request
3. Review Notes
4. Sign-in to the call link
   to open at 10 min before for community building, etc.

Is there a way

ONCE admin opens the call at scheduled call time?
2 min:
Welcome period, attendance
Need spreadsheet: LISTEN! LITE – 0

• Attendance
• Watch Video
• Review Notes

0 – 2: Lecture

Mike will lecture/present the topic of the session

Any time yielded back is announced and new segment/timer is begun.

Intro: THE DISS:
Video




0 – 3: Application

This segment will likely be another lecture/presentation on application of the last segment’s content.

I will free wheel following a script of a real or helping situation.

100823: 7+ min

[0:00:03]
Greeting:

Interviewer: Hey, XXXX.

Interviewee: Hi there.

PING

Interviewer: Anything going on today?

Interviewee: Yeah. I’m just trying to make a decision about my oldest.

PING

Interviewer: Is it important to you?

Interviewee: Very.

PERMIT
Interviewer: Anything you’d like to say about it?

Interviewee: We’re trying to move them from their current school to a new school. And we are concerned about the disruption that will cause. But their current school, there’s a situation that’s become untenable. And so, we need to do something, but we’re not sure that moving them at this point in the school year is a good decision.

PROMPT (RightACTION)

Interviewer: (Name), what’s important?

Interviewee: I mean I think the most important thing with them right now is their happiness and well-being. And that’s kind of what’s prompting the desire to move them.

PROBE
Interviewer: Who’s in the conversation?

Interviewee: Myself, my wife, and my oldest. Because they’re (old enough) and they really should have a say in how they should be educated in their education at this point, so we wanted them involved as well.

PERMIT/PAUSE & BREATHE

Interviewer: So?

Interviewee: So, we talked. They are not unhappy, but some of the things that faculty and the administration in their current school have done has really created a situation that puts us in a no-win position. If we ever needed to advocate for them, we wouldn’t be able to do that in an effective way because we’d lose. They have written policies around these issues that are really critical. And so, we’ve introduced the conversation. And I think they are open to it, but I think there’s also fear there because of the unknown. And so, it’s an issue of what you know versus what you don’t. And even the situation you’re in may be a bad situation, you’re still familiar as opposed to the risk of the unknown of moving into a new school.

PING (Insight)/PERTURB

Interviewer: Is there anything that you’re afraid of?

Interviewee: I guess as in anything? The fear of making of a poor decision, poorly considered decision, and putting my child in a space where they are unhappy or their mental health and well-being is in danger.

[0:05:02]

PING/PACE CHANGE

Interviewer: Have you thought of a next step?

Interviewee: We actually have. We have arranged for a school tour at the new school. Like you can do research online, so we’ve researched the various school options. But we’ve arranged for a school tour, that way they can get a sense of what the environment is like and that may be enough to kind of take a peek behind the curtain and see what it might be like to be there so that they can get a sense of what the day-to-day school life would be like. Maybe they can see something there that they feel they could fit in with better.

PING/PACE CHANGE

Interviewer: (Name), is there a question that I need to ask you?

Interviewee: I think there is a question. But at this point, if it is… am I at a decision point? I mean we definitely are. Like it will be made probably within the next 72 hours.

PING/PROBE

Interviewer: Do you need some help with your plan?

Interviewee: I don’t think so. I think it’s just been helpful to help me talk through the mental process of it, to put things out and make sure that I’m going through the appropriate paces.

[Natural] Close

Interviewer: Well, I sure wish you good luck.

Interviewee: Thank you.

[0:07:12] End of Audio




0 – 4: Q&A Discussion

This will be a discussion that follows based on a Q&A centric process.



GARY will handle the chat during the call and participants will remain muted but will have the option of submitting questions in chat which will be copied into a document for reference either during or after the call…

Hence the reason for Q&A in and Q&A out.

Finally I am thinking to start a vlog on current events which can serve as live calls, recorded, edited and upload to a separate channel that is not directly connected to LeadU but could be as I intend to use it to recruit and feed LeadU news and I may do this once per week — all of you will be involved in that…

NEXT SESSION: Introduction




“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” — Marianne Williamson



0 – Lagniappe: (Example)

HUMANING… a Raison d’etre?

Humaning
Tier 1

• Being
• Doing
• Having
• Becoming

Tier 2

• Contributing
• Relating
• Guiding
• Resilience
• Wellth

…to help people lead generative lives!



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