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Meeting check-ins
To help team members arrive mentally and emotionally at the meeting. Begin meetings with a brief check-in round. Each person shares briefly in response to a simple prompt: • 'How are you arriving today?' • 'What's one word that describes your state right now?' • 'What's on your… An ongoing team scaffold (meeting element), run each meeting, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-10 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, open-awareness, stillness-silence
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Each meeting)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
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
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Introduce and model the practice. Share genuinely yourself. Protect the check-in time; don't skip it when the agenda is full.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25