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Earlier this fall, we hosted another fantastic K-Lab where I had the unique experience of attending as an asynchronous participant.
🧠 What is a K-Lab?
For those of you who don’t know, a Knowledge Lab is a session mindfully-designed to create space to develop ideas–big or small.
We don’t know the power of our own imagination until we allow ourselves permission to sit with our thoughts and mindfully describe what comes to mind, whatever that might be!
That’s the power of a Knowledge Lab—it finds a way to get out the ideas that have been lingering in the un-visited corners of our minds. Weird, unconventional, incomplete—a K-Lab is a space where all ideas are welcome.
💭 Attending Asynchronously
For this session, I attended as an asynchronous participant, tuning in after the live meeting and adding bubbles on my own time.
Even though I wasn’t present in real-time as the session was unfolding, I still managed to get a lot of value out of the experience. This is in part because of the utility and intuitive nature of our platform Web-Idea-Pro.
Before I began to add my own bubbles to the Co-Construction space, I took a moment to make space for inspiration. I closed my eyes, took some deep breaths and invited in my creative self—the version of me that doesn’t judge whether an idea is good or bad.
Then, I considered the theme of the session—Autopoiesis, a word that, up until that point, I had never heard before.
🤖AI Tool
As an asynchronous participant, it felt a bit daunting to look at all the work accomplished by previous participants. There were so many bubbles leading to so many different ideas, forming these unlikely threads of carefully considered thoughts. It was beautiful to see and it was also a lot to digest.
This is where the AI Tool came in handy. In Web-Idea-Pro, pressing the AI button provides a robust prompt to input into the generative AI assistant of your choice. I used Google Gemini(I’m cycling through different assistants at the moment, I’ll try another one next time) and received a summary of the group’s work.
From there, I was able to inquire further about how different ideas and concepts are connected.
🌐 Co-Construction Results:
The themes covered were diverse in nature and related to each other in ways I wouldn’t have been able to see on my own.
Some of our topics included:
-Autopoiesis - “A property of living things”
-Cognitive Liberty - “Free will”
-Attention - “Where energy goes, neural firing flows”
-Noosphere - “Collective Consciousness”
-Psychological Safety - “the right to make errors” 💡 My Contributions:
It was incredible seeing the dots connected between these not-so-simple concepts. I was happy to make a humble contribution on the topics of visual management, team-collaboration and the state of the universe being in constant change. What a wild variety of topics! I can safely say that there is no other scenario in my life where I’m prompted to think about subjects in such a flexible and fluid way.
The structure of the K-Lab provides just enough guidance to facilitate creative thinking and is otherwise totally flexible and gives the feel of being un-structured while providing a supportive container for new ideas to come forward.
🌍 Who Joined?
So who was at the session? As usual, we had a fantastic group of participants. With people tuning in from three different continents, four different countries and seven different cities—the session represented perspectives from all over the globe.
Even better, we had several previous participants returning to participate again!
As I myself attend more and more K-Labs, I’m beginning to see how magical it can be to continue to expand upon ideas and concepts not only through the course of a session, but over multiple sessions over the course of several months.
✨Final Thoughts
All in all, this was a great experience for me and I look forward to getting even deeper into these concepts and others with both returning and new participants.
🔗 Want to ideate with us? Join our upcoming K-Lab next week on October 2nd! 👉 More info here.