• Write notes about, or create a list of, what you’d like to revise about your draft Portfolio Project based on what emerged for you from the Socratic and Collaborative Inquiry sessions.  Might you like to change your dashboard? Map?  

I am figuring I will be redoing the whole thing shortly here, I sort of traveled to a closer place then I had planned for the week. I had a long weekend (planned to travel for my birthday to CA, then between my other class group project, and my son having unannounced school time off and so forth lead to a day at the Waterpark of America instead, as scary as it sounds). 

While I like the idea of a conscripted Socratic Inquiry if it was like people in my class or work that had to be there.

I do not have friends in MN or know people that would find this interesting, also in something like I am comfortable asking someone to sit and talk for a hour, ever for any reason unless they were paid or where paying me, or something else of value was offered. While I can pack a room and talk about wine, or a number of topics for hours, last week trained a bar staff for hours on the basics, but was paid well, we were trying cocktails and it was fun. Scheduling that was a two month process, into my and 4 peoples schedules, to pop up and do this in a week in impossible for me.  

Now if it was at work or school and they had to be there that is one thing or my friends that are into debate and philosophy lived here.  I think the idea and asking questions to get people to review, rethink, reframe and sort of look at things from another angle is a invaluable tool and think this should definitely be taken into account as a learn tool, but also a way to engage others as everyone likes to talk (maybe not me all the time) but for the most part there is not much that gets people more excited then asking them engaging questions and wanting to hear what they have to say (active listening is something I need to focus on and show interest in). My best friends would find this interesting but ones billable hour is around $1000 and the other is in Vietnam and I hear from on a monthly basis, neither going to happen at the same time or with out plenty of planning. 

I would like to gear my dashboard into a more thoughtful less action focus way, as rushing around doing stuff is not a valuable as listening and clearly taking in all sides of a problem or situation before acting. 

• You were asked to use reflections from your Socratic Inquiry session for your this week's travel log; however, you are always welcome to add to this week's entry after the Collaborative Inquiry session.

While I like that assignment as it is a lot better for time management and sanity purposes. There is a element of looking into what motivates, inspires, what challenges other students are having, what is important to their leadership development, and how where they are on in their journeys.