LIPD Design Methodology
My design methodology for this LIPD followed the process of ORGBADIE. I use this acronym, articulated below to explicitly articulate my relationship to Observation, Resources, Goals, Brainstorming, Assessment, Design, Implementation, and Evaluation. This design methodology is my personal process for working through a project. In this case the project largely entails designing this Output Packet and the coming year of my life.
Observations :
• The opportunity exists to clarify my goals.
• I believe explicitly articulating my learning and project goals with specific concrete tasks will assist my pathway toward achieving my goals.
• Spending a couple of weeks per year clarifying my pathway direction functions to evaluate my life’s design thus informing my pathway.
Resources :
• OP 1b LIPD
• OP 5: Learning Review
• Pro Reviews from OP 1-5
• Internal Review
Goals Articulation:
• Explicitly articulate my goals for this year
• Use this OP as a yearly check in regarding my current passions, developing skillflexes and life dreams.
• Create frameworks and systems to contain the projects I aim to accomplish this year.
• Create metrics and feedback loops to measure my progress along my pathway
• See more in the box to the right of specific goals for the LIPD
Brainstorm:
• Goals for short term, longer term and life goals
• Passions and values for my life
• Specific goals for my pathway and specific skills I would like to accomplish
• Concrete articles that I can write
• Books, videos and resources to digest to assist my progress
• Ways to track my progress
• Thesis that pulls together a focus for the year to come
• Skillflexes that I would benefit from working upon
• My bucket list
• Actionable Items to realize during my 3 primary output packets.
Assess & Analyze:
• Distill which goals from the brainstorming are appropriate for OP (project work) on a year timeline and which passions/goals are appropriate for longer term projects
• Review previous OP’s and feedback to recognize my growing edges.
• Read more OP’s from other associates to inspire new patterns.
Design
• The cyclical nature of design is shown here: the design for my Capstone LIPD refines and extends my precapstone LIPD. In addition, it incorporates all of my other project work to demonstrate the rising golden vortex of my pathway. It functions as a top level fractal as well setting the stage for the Observation, Brainstorming and Goal Articulation for my OPs 2,3,4)
Implement
• Implementation of this LIPD is strictly limited to the design of my Capstone Pathway. I intend to implement aspects of my pathway projections within OP 2, 3, 4. For now, I am implementing the product of this output packet, this LIPD:
• writing a thesis statement for my capstone year
• creating a metric to gauge my learnings and progression
• brainstorming on skills and projects to implement in the coming year and lifetime
Evaluate
• Proofread
• Self Review
• Make changes based on peer review
• Make changes based on pro review
Specific Goals Articulation
This lists my primary goals for this OP 1: Learning Intentions and Pathway Design.
• Create a simple template that is easeful to reflect on each years intentions and set new intentions.
• Create a timeline for 2014 - 2015 for my professional and academic life.
• Quick Video of me setting intentions by a new moon in Nature.
• Create a bucket list of life dreams.
• Reflect upon my values for living a good life.
• Set clear intentions for projects and experiences for this year.
• Create a Master’s Thesis for my Capstone MSc Gaia. Create mini-theses for the 3 OP’s
• Organize the skillflexes from my previous LIPD in a way that I want to present Liam and has feedback loops to grow as I grow.
• Create a basic Introduction and Goals Articulation for the 3 OP’s I intend to do
• Brainstorm Actionable Items for my 3 OP’s so I have mini projects I can work on through the summer while I am not actively “doing an OP” but I am doing parts of it. Setting up reflection processes for the OP.
Reflections upon Chakra Desing Methodology
Making the visual representation of my design methodology analogous to my daily chakra practice helped illuminate aspects of design for me. Firstly, I feel that I often intend to Brainstorm prior to Goal Articulation (allow the creative prior to the analytical.) Or perhaps more precisely I intend to Brainstorm before and after Goal setting. Also, as I approached the top, I realized that as we get to the 7th chakra, it reflects that moment of observation and pause where we begin; however, perhaps with new eyes of interconnectedness and transcendence.