Month 2 – Rhythm + Ritual
Healing-Centred Design is guided by 5 principles, which work together to create support and sustainability.
The first is Rhythm and Ritual, which provides you with the powerful qualities of safety, calm and ease. Rhythms and rituals, when embedded in your work and life, infuse meaning and significance into endings and beginnings and help create patterns you can trust and feel safe in.
This months task
Have a go at the exercise in the video, and/or the Powerful Processes worksheet below. Submit to us by 15th of the month (members@brilliantthing.co.uk) for personalised feedback and resources. You can submit your written or audio reflection and /or the completed worksheet.
Powerful Processes
This worksheet will help you create a process around any area of your work or life that feels stressful.
A process is a series of actions or steps that are taken to achieve a particular outcome or complete a specific task. Processes are an important part of establishing rhythms in our work and lives.
- When we design and plan a process, we do the ‘thinking-work’ ahead of time.
- Then we can follow the process without becoming stressed by decision-making in the moment.
- These steps might take 30 mins to an hour to complete the first time but when you have built the process-making muscle you’ll be able to create much quicker the next time!
Where and how to enrich your work and life with Rhythms and Rituals
Ways of organising
Often when we start to think about creating rhythms and rituals in our work, we realise that we want to create ways to organise things clearly and access them easily.
Here are some tools we find useful, apart from Google Workspace and Riverside FM we use the free versions of these tools.
Trello – A project management tool that uses boards, lists, and cards to visually organize tasks and workflows. Visit Trello
Buffer – A social media scheduling tool that allows easy planning, collaboration, and posting across multiple social channels. Visit Buffer
Google Workspace – A suite of productivity tools, including Gmail, Docs, Drive, and Calendar, designed to enhance collaboration and organization. Visit Google Workspace
Riverside.fm – An online recording platform designed for high-quality video and audio interviews, ideal for remote podcasting or video content creation. Visit Riverside.fm
Miro – A digital whiteboard platform that enables teams to brainstorm, plan, and collaborate visually in real-time. Visit Miro