#76: Gratitude Meets Process with the G30 Group

It's Thanksgiving today in the United States, so this is a special edition of our Coburn Ventures Podcast, which will also be an inaugural edition of a new monthly series over at the Change Makers podcast coming in 2022. That podcast is for the Coburn Ventures Community for Change and the over 300 members who contribute to that community. 

In this special edition, we knew we wanted to present some kind of take on gratitude. And we noticed that conversations about gratitude today circle around habits and practices...cute little books and journals to remind oneself to be grateful… and that seems wonderful but somehow not critical, and it seems to be missing what we were suspecting may be a really crucial element of gratitude in making not only our lives but our work, better.

So we held discussions over the course of the last month with a broader group and called in "Gratitude meets process"  and here, I would say process is the scaffolding for doing great work, however you want to define that. 

Well, we often look to linear methods of doing and creating our work, a lot of the structures and tools we use: calendaring by the hour, thinking in units of dollars, or pages written, these are linear constructs. But we understand that insight generation is not a linear phenomenon. What could gratitude, which is also nonlinear, its transcendent, what can gratitude teach us about how we are living and working?

You'll get a special surprise after a brief introduction, so please, join us in a special deep dive on gratitude.

Happy Thanksgiving, in the very broadest sense, to all.  Thank you.... for listening.