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Extending the circle of care
To cultivate the team's capacity to care about those beyond its immediate boundaries. Periodically extend empathic attention beyond the team: • Who is affected by our work that we rarely think about? • What are their lives like? What challenges do they face? • What do they need from us? This… An ongoing team scaffold (reflection session), run quarterly, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 30-45 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, emotional-processing, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Quarterly)
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Create space for this reflection. Help the team move from abstract stakeholder categories to real human beings with lives, struggles, and needs.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25