Exploring Individual and Collective Well-Hoping Amid Crises, Loss and Limitation

Facilitated by Lisa Buckley, MA, MSW, PhD (Can) Lisa Buckley has worked in the organizational development field as a consultant to 400 businesses and a director of organizational development for a national healthcare company. Her expertise includes leadership and team development, business and market development, operational startups, strategic planning, and operational redesigns. She guides individuals, groups, and organizations through significant transitions toward reaching their goals while discovering greater meaning, peace, and empowerment.

Lisa recently completed doctoral research on Making Meaning of Loss and Limitation through Hope: A Developmental Stage Perspective. This research examined how adults across six developmental stages perceived and experienced hope when facing loss and limitation. Results suggest that the meaning of hope changes: people think about, speak about, and experience hope differently based upon developmental stage. Stage distinctions include differing perceptions of agency, capacities to see different pathways, and unique relationships to uncertainty. The stage-related capacities also frame how individuals perceive self, others, and the world. Each stage offered unique capacities that might be considered hope resources for individuals dealing with loss or limitation. Lisa modified the O’Fallon (2020) STAGES General Assessment to create and use the STAGES Hope Specialty Inventory to measure how individuals’ relationships with hope varied across developmental stages. The mixed-methods research design included interviews designed to elicit participants' lived experiences with hope and limitation.

Lisa’s current focus is exploring the power and application of collective hoping. Humans face unprecedented, multisystemic crises that threaten existence across the globe. Individuals working in climate change, social justice, healthcare, and mental health call for effective interventions to develop capacities and skills of well-hoping in individuals and collectives. Research has shown that hope is a power or function that assists humans in times of crisis, loss, and limitation. Further, hope can be learned, supported, and facilitated. The evening’s conversation is called Exploring Individual and Collective Well-Hoping Amid Crises, Loss, and Limitation.

In February, 2017 San Diego Integral began the Focused Integral Group Discussion (FIGD) which is a meta-structuring format where we briefly switch into an agreed upon process to optimally utilize the We-Space. The objective of FIGD is to collectively feel deeper into any topic and promote a causal state experience where we briefly switch from a collective I to a collective we. A Focused Integral Group process is "running in the background" until a salient moment rises that we want to explore. This may be derived from a presentation, a poignant comment by a member, a poem...whatever has resonance and can be horizontally expanded by the collective. This moment is identified by the "moderator" who helps maintain focus.

New or returning members are encouraged to read the brief papers in the PAGES tab above in preparation for participation.

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