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http://emergingleaderlabs.org/Our_Story
Kyle Sykes+Next Step
Closing the last chapter
Accomplishments
- faith that he could get where he needed to be
- for getting both sides of my family to support me moving forward
- for leaving home
- for getting away from meds and showing I can be healthy without them
- helpging to found ELL
- getting gameshifting translated into reality
- courage to act
- new body learning ... Kyle style... still with high energy
- embodying new skills and knowledge
- full commitment to serve the group - doing whatever is asked of you
- openness and ability to absorb information all around you
- shifted speaking toward greater accessibility
- no more distracting words, mouth-covering and gestures when speaking
- coachability - willingness to take suggestions and corrections with grace
- learning to take care of your self and your needs
- being a role model for coachability - make me want to be a better person in receiving suggestions
- for being a kind teacher
- my increased awareness of what's going on in the group and around me
- for the exercise I've been getting
- for clear communication
Completion of Failures, Goals, Promises, Expectations
- the sense that my ideas are so abstract that they can't be translated to reality
- whatever medical condition I have... it doesn't control me
- I may or may not want to go to college
- I've unburdened myself of my family's expecations
- releasing the expectation that my posts will be be noisy and non-sensical
- releasing the expectation that it's impossible to do games/art/writing/acting all
- the expectation that I won't be present in an interaction
- acknowledged the end of any expectations from the source team of noise
- releasing the expectation of providing breakthroughs through your body expression
- releasing the expectation that you'll check in with me and how I'm doing
- awkwardness around girls/women
- the discomfort of my appearance with braces
Opening the Next Chapter
Where is magic and inspiration leading me?
- Make serious games and play guilds
- Scheming with John Kellden about those things
- Combining my interest in social sciences and arts - be a polymath
- Traveling and seeing new parts of the world
- Improve my writing/documentation/media skills for sharing what's important to me
- Speak from a place of victory in defining myself and creating my life
- Continuing to write my new story as an inspiration to myself and others
- I can get what I want through my creativity
- I learn from other's mistakes. It's my fast track to wisdom
- Expect to be surprised
- Improve my media & tech literacy and skills
- Be present to other's needs and support their transitions
- Learn more about materials for making games
- Many, many friends in flesh and blood
- Congruence between what I think and what I feel