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The Gut Check Workshop: Developing a Rubric for Choosing New Projects

Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 9:45 - 11:15 am, Leyburn Library 128

Have you ever wrapped up a project and swore you’d never go through something like this again? But then later find yourself saying, “Yes” begrudgingly to something similar again just a few months later? But what if you could say, “Hell no!” without all the anxiety that usually comes with it? What if instead, you could turn down opportunities with the confidence that your rationale was not only justified but can lead to new understanding of yourself and your own boundaries?

The Gut Check workshop is an interactive exercise that helps 91´«Ã½ to build up their confidence as the best judge of boundaries for themselves. Through facilitated discussions and exercises, we’ll give space to speak to our shared fears of reputational damage, judgment, and retaliation. We’ll also see examples from Greater Good Studio of when they said, “No, and where’s why...” And we’ll see the real-time development of Gut Check questions by participants, authored in the workshop, that they can use to protect themselves and others from future harm.

This workshop will be facilitated by George Aye, Co-Founder of , a social design consultancy that has been using its own Gut Check (now on version six) as an integral part of its practice for 12 years.