exploring your own personal mastery in leadership. You will reflect on past experiences of leadership development, clarify the future leader you a
exploring your own personal mastery in leadership. You will reflect on past experiences of leadership development, clarify the future leader you aspire to become, analyze the present the gap between your current reality and your possible emerging futures, and prototype the intentions you need to enact to realize your vision of the leader you want to be.
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Personal Mastery Paper
[Your Name in Given/Surname Order]
BA Leadership, Trinity Western University
LDRS 310: The Learning Organization
Personal Mastery Paper
This paper explores my life-long personal mastery of leadership experience in four reflective moments: the past, the future, the analysis, and the synthesis.
The Past
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The Future
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The Analysis
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The Synthesis
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Conclusion
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References
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The Method of Currere
LDRS 310 Personal Mastery Paper
Assignment Criteria
Write a self-coaching reflection paper, exploring your own personal mastery in leadership. You will reflect on past experiences of leadership development, clarify the future leader you aspire to become, analyze the present the gap between your current reality and your possible emerging futures, and prototype the intentions you need to enact to realize your vision of the leader you want to be.
Use the template to assist you in the writing of this paper.
Format: Informal APA Style;
Length: 6-8 pages;
The Past:
The Past. Remember past leadership experiences and leadership role models you’ve had; consider how these experiences influenced the formation of your own personal leadership attitudes, ideas, capabilities, and behaviours. Guiding Questions:
How has your past shaped who you are today?
How has your past shaped your work or what you are presently doing?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
The Past: Suggestions
The Past. This is a historical journey. Recount major events, thoughts, habits, etc that have shaped you.
What did you read? What did you watch? What did you value? What did you think about?
“Bringing the past to the present by printing it. The words coalesce to form a photograph. Holding the photograph in front of oneself, one studies the detail, the literal holding of the picture and one's response to it, suggestive of the relation of past to present.”
-Pinar, 1975
The Future:
The Future. Imagine your highest future possible in terms of the authentic leader you aspire to be, the life of intention you aspire to live, talents you aspire to develop, experiences you intend to live, communities where you aspire to connect, and the contribution that you aspire to make in the world. Guiding Questions:
Who is your highest self you aspire to be? Describe what you envision yourself to be like in the future.
What is the work you aspire to do in the future?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
The Future: Suggestions
The Future: this is a realistic reflection of personal potential. This is not a hope for the future, or a study of one’s dreams. This is an honest evaluation of where you believe you will be based on one’s self-awareness and understanding.
“Sit alone, perhaps in a slightly darkened room, in a comfort- able chair with a writing table and a pen. Close the eyes, place the attention on the breathing. Take a few slow deep breaths as these are comfortable. The point of these minutes is relaxation. After one is relaxed, one thinks of the future, of tomorrow, of next week, of the new few months, of the next academic year, of the next three years and so on. Since our interest is educational experience, gently bring the attention back to matters associated with your intellectual interests, and allow your mind to work free associatively. Record what comes. Try to discern where your intellectual interests are going, the relation between these evolving interests and your private life, between these two and evolving historical conditions”
– Pinar, 1975
The Future: Suggestions
The Future: Where will you be in a week, in a month, in a year? What interests will drive you? What passions will guide your progress? What might you attain, strive for, etc?
“Return to the chair and this dwelling in imagined future states several times on different days over a period of several days or weeks or months. Such elongation of the experiment reduces the possibility of distortion of temporary preoccupations. Increased is the likelihood that the photographs taken are reflective of more lasting anticipations.”
– Pinar, 1975
The Analysis:
The Analysis. Analyze your present state of growth in life and as a leader. What are the elements and structures that define the “present” moment in your lifelong learning journey? Connect your past and future with your current life situation. Consider the consequences of how you are presently generating creative tension (or not), are you releasing your aspirations, releasing the truth of reality, or growing?
Guiding Questions:
What are the current challenges and the emerging areas of possibility that your life and/or work asks you to address?
What about your current life/work frustrates you the most?
What would you have to let go of to bring your vision into reality?
Specifically, identify 2-3 places of internal resistance.
Where in your current life do you experience the beginnings (or seeds) of the future you want to create?
Who makes up your support community, and what do you believe are their highest hopes regarding your future journey?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
The Analysis:
The Analysis: Put aside the past and future and reflect on the present. Who are you know? What are your challenges and goals? What passions drive you and what obstacles stand in your way? Who are you right now? What is it that you value?
“Describe the biographic present, exclusive of the past and future, but inclusive of responses to them. For many the present is woven into the fabric of institutional life. Within that historical form, embodied concretely in the building which houses your office and those who are your col- leagues and students, what is your present? What are one's intellectual interests? What is one's emotional condition? To what ideas, what areas of study, which discipline, is one drawn? From what is one repelled? List these. Describe, not interpret these attractions. Photograph the present as if one were a camera, including oneself in the present taking the photograph, and your response to this process”
Pinar, 1975
The Synthesis:
The Synthesis. Define how you intend to bring the future you most desire into reality. Specifically, outline your way forward—that is, your plan—to achieving your highest future in life and as a Leader.
Guiding Questions:
Over the next three months, if you could prototype a microcosm of your future in which you could explore by doing, what would it look like?
Who is the community to help bring your future into reality and who can support you in your highest future intention?
If you committed to bringing your future into reality, what practical steps would you take over the next 3-7 days?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
The Synthesis:
The Synthesis. How do the past, present, and future connect? What aspects of your life need to change in order to reach the future you hope for not the future you expect? When your experiences, hopes, and current reality come together, who are you?
“The physical body may be a concrete manifestation of all that occurs in and through it. The Self is available to itself in physical form. The intellect, residing in physical form, is part of the Self. The Self is not a concept the intellect has of itself. The intellectual is an appendage of the Self, a medium, like the body, through which the Self and the world are accessible to themselves. Mind in its place, I conceptualize the present situation. I am placed together.”
Other Criteria:
Demonstrates a careful understanding of the personal mastery paper’s scholarly context, audience, purpose, and all the prescribed elements.
Follows a logical four-part reflective inquiry structure, including past, future, analysis and synthesis sections, as well as an introduction and conclusion.
Uses straightforward language that communicates meaning to readers with clarity and fluency and is generally error-free.
States ideas clearly, elaborates with explanations, and exemplifies using good, credible, relevant examples and other evidence, such as, expert sources. This paper must have at least 4 expert sources referenced.
Correct use of APA conventions, including 8 citations, references documentation, document formatting, and stylistic writing elements.
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LDRS 310: The Learning Organization
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What is a personal mastery paper?
Personal mastery is the self-leadership discipline of lifelong learning. Senge (1990) argues the essence of this practice is “learning how to generate and sustain creative tension in our lives” (p. 124). Creative tension is the product of two important self-development practices, first, “continuously clarifying what is important to us” and second, “continuously learning how to see current reality more clearly” (p. 141).
Personal mastery is not a place where we arrive, but rather a continuous process, a lifelong discipline of taking responsibility for our personal learning and growth.
What is the writing process?
Your paper body (Content) will include four parts, based on an autobiographical method of professional learning inquiry known as currere (Pinar, 1975)[footnoteRef:1], which explores the experiences giving shape to a person’s self-understanding and life’s work. We will also use Scharmer’s (2018) Theory-U to structure this inquiry process as four reflective movements, including (a) the past, (b) the future, (c) an analysis, and (d) a synthesis for the future. [1: Pinar, W. (1975). The method of "currere". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Research Association, Washington, DC. ]
(a) The Past. Remember past leadership experiences and leadership role models you’ve had; consider how these experiences influenced the formation of your own personal leadership attitudes, ideas, capabilities, and behaviours. Guiding Questions:
a. How has your past shaped who you are today?
b. How has your past shaped your work or what you are presently doing?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
(b) The Future. Imagine your highest future possible in terms of the authentic leader you aspire to be, the life of intention you aspire to live, talents you aspire to develop, experiences you intend to live, communities where you aspire to connect, and the contribution that you aspire to make in the world. Guiding Questions:
a. Who is your highest self you aspire to be? Describe what you envision yourself to be like in the future.
b. What is the work you aspire to do in the future?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
(c) The Analysis. Analyze your present state of growth in life and as a leader. What are the elements and structures that define the “present” moment in your lifelong learning journey? Connect your past and future with your current life situation. Consider the consequences of how you are presently generating creative tension (or not), are you releasing your aspirations, releasing the truth of reality, or growing?
Guiding Questions:
a. What are the current challenges and the emerging areas of possibility that your life and/or work asks you to address?
b. What about your current life/work frustrates you the most?
c. What would you have to let go of to bring your vision into reality?
i. Specifically, identify 2-3 places of internal resistance.
d. Where in your current life do you experience the beginnings (or seeds) of the future you want to create?
e. Who makes up your support community, and what do you believe are their highest hopes regarding your future journey?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
(d) The Synthesis. Define how you intend to bring the future you most desire into reality. Specifically, outline your way forward—that is, your plan—to achieving your highest future in life and as a Leader.
Guiding Questions:
a. Over the next three months, if you could prototype a microcosm of your future in which you could explore by doing, what would it look like?
b. Who is the community to help bring your future into reality and who can support you in your highest future intention?
c. If you committed to bringing your future into reality, what practical steps would you take over the next 3-7 days?
1 to 2 pages double spaced
What are the grading expectations?
A paper meeting all the expectations below demonstrates “very good work with less than 10 grammatical or APA flaws”, which according to the grading scale used in this course is a B+ grade. Work that does not meet all these expectations will receive a grade below B+.
· Demonstrates a careful understanding of the personal mastery paper’s scholarly context, audience, purpose, and all the prescribed elements.
· Follows a logical four-part reflective inquiry structure, including past, future, analysis and synthesis sections, as well as an introduction and conclusion.
· Uses straightforward language that communicates meaning to readers with clarity and fluency and is generally error-free.
· States ideas clearly, elaborates with explanations, and exemplifies using good, credible, relevant examples and other evidence, such as, expert sources. This paper must have at least 4 expert sources referenced.
· Correct use of APA conventions , including 8 citations , references documentation, document formatting, and stylistic writing elements.
To receive a grade above B+ the work must exceed all the expectations below. *
* To exceed expectations, you must demonstrate a thorough understanding of the assignment, your argumentation must be carefully constructed with insightful linkages and well-written transitions, you must have a higher density of ideas, substantial explanations, use compelling examples (personal or from expert sources), your language must be graceful, your grammar virtually error-free, and you make elegant use of APA conventions.
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