exercise · all tools
Making Courageous Decisions
Depth · what it can open●●●○3 — emotional
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Participants practice recognizing fear in the moment of decision and acting on values anyway — informed by Theory U's letting-go and letting-come: releasing the safe option, allowing the value-aligned one. Real dilemmas, named fears, committed next moves.
Hold with care
- Naming what one fears in front of colleagues is itself the courageous act — protect the first speakers
Practical
- Time
- 60-90 min
- Group
- 4–12 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Paper, pens, sticky notes
- Mechanisms
- emotional-processing, values-clarification, behavioral-rehearsal
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/making-courageous-decisions — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Hubertie Kroon, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA), Theory U-informed; team adaptation by Thomas Jordan — Courage practice / Theory U
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox · Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Related: The Small Stand (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25