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Intention and Correspondence The idea that we create our reality is as old as the ancient Hindu Vedas, which state that Atman (the individual) is Brahman (the cosmos). This suggests that the whole of experience somehow resides in our consciousness, and that it is our consciousness that shapes, attracts, or otherwise brings about what seem [...]
The Dualistic Nature of Values and Internal Value Dynamics According to John Tropman in his book “Making Meetings Work, he claims that many traditional conflict-management approaches make assumptions that get in the way of possible solutions. One of those assumptions is that individuals are clear about their values. In other words, “they have a well-ordered [...]
What facilitators don’t know can serve their groups In most cases, facilitators are highly regarded professionals. We must present a strong and professional image as we’re “on stage” much of the time, performing an important function for our clients, employees, students, neighbors, etc. And as is often the case with people standing in front of [...]
I often marvel at the vast intelligence, energy, and resources we collectively squander by undermining each other’s efforts. We see this happening everywhere–in business, politics, government, education, etc. One group springs up simply to oppose the goals and ideas of another. I often wonder what would happen if we could better align our efforts, focusing [...]
The deeper we delve into any subject, the more complex and intricate it can become. I think it’s common to think that to become an advanced practitioner of facilitation, or any art for that matter, that we need to move in the direction of increasing complexity. While a deeper and/or broader scope of knowledge and [...]
Tapping into the field of knowing My inquiry into the concept and practice of intuition among my peers led to many interesting responses. I’ve organized these questions and their responses below in a way I hope you’ll find useful. What is intuition? Intuition: 1. a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the [...]
As we move into the end of yet another year together, I’ve been thinking about what I could share that would help to clarify and simplify our work in the world of group leadership and facilitation. It occurred to me that as life long learners, our field can get pretty complicated with all the models, [...]
This holiday week I want to continue my heretical body slamming on the culture of doing…the already frenetic pace of which seems to increase this time of year. It’s a common view that if we’re not doing something, we’re failing or lagging behind. Everything in our world is about growing, progress, and production. This movement [...]
I’ve been watching the news lately a little more than usual and had an impulse to explore an obvious pattern I see that relates to our work with groups. It has to do with people arguing their solutions to problems with little knowledge of the source of these problems. In this week’s article, How Did [...]
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