The Mindset & Its Ways Activity is a visual, self-reflection tool. It gives you a structured way to explore how your mindset shapes the way you see, think, act, and relate. Ready to be applied in workshops, professional learning programs, and coaching sessions, it can help you more deeply understand how your mindset is functioning in daily situations.
The wayfinding image serves as a unifying metaphor. Your mindset is more than beliefs, values, paradigms, and worldviews. It functions as a way of seeing, a way of thinking, a way of acting, and a way of relating. It is both a pathway and way through which you embody and enact a wide range of your primary life functions. By bringing visibility to these four “ways,” you can better understand the patterns influencing your choices, behaviours, and potential.
This activity can help you, or the people you teach, coach, or lead:
- Understand how your mindset functions in daily life and work.
- Discern between your ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and relating.
- Craft a personalised statement of how your mindset shapes your many ways.
- Explore opportunities for new ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and relating.
This activity can be used to help you navigate a challenge or make a change. It could also be used as part of your next team meeting or strategy session. Ideally, it is undertaken as a follow-on from the What’s My Mindset Activity. It takes between 15–60 minutes depending on how much reflection time you want to allow.
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Want help bringing this activity to your team or project? Ash Buchanan spent a decade exploring how the collective knowledge of the mindset sciences can be applied in real-world settings. He offers trainings, learning partnerships, and project support, to help you turn insights into action.
