Archive for March, 2007
Off for holidays…
Well folks, I’m off for the second of the four 5-day Art of Change retreats (all those AOC postings came from somewhere!), and then for holidays, so won’t be posting anything new for a couple of weeks. Cheers, Suzanne
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AOC Reprise: Inner Knowing 2
“Nature is an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.” George Washington Carver
Practice #3: Inner Knowing
Consult and listen to your inner wisdom before making each and every decision—large and small.
May you remember to remember so many times today, that you dwell in a [...]
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AOC Reprise: Inner Knowing
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” Albert Einstein
Practice #3 Inner Knowing: Consult and listen to your inner wisdom before making each and every [...]
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In earlier posts, I mulled over social change overall, the need and opportunity for describing shared visions for the change, and two overarching paths (social marketing/education and policy/advocacy) to pushing change along the ‘social diffusion bell curve”. The lens for all these ideas is focused on social change organizations, or actors, in terms of [...]
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AOC Resprise: Deep Listening 2
“Every person in this life has something to teach me — and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening.” – Catherine Doucette
“Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself, so you can slow our mind’s hearing to your ears’ natural speed, and hear beneath the words [...]
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AOC Reprise: Deep Listening
And for the next two days, let’s return to the practice that is the favorite of those who get to be with you:
How do I listen to others?
As if everyone were my most revered Teacher
Speaking to me
His (her) cherished last words.
- Hafiz
Practice #2: With each and every person with whom you speak, bring the deepest [...]
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AOC: The Three Questions
As healers (broadly defined), we want to be mindful of the opening lines of Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians which begins: “Above all do no harm.” Engaging in any kind of change work: helping, healing, giving feedback, etc. is an intrusion of our energy into someone else’s energy field. A wise and revered [...]
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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action.
And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
The world will not have it.
It is not [...]
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Only free men (and women) can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
- Nelson Mandela
We examined in Session I how our work as change agents always takes place within a context of power relationships. These differences in power have profound implications for the nature of our workand for the process of contracting. Let’s begin by quickly [...]
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To create change in organizations, we want to work with all three major components of the Wheel of Change [Wheel of Change for Organizations]:
1. perceptions-emotions-beliefs, which we call Inner Work
2. behavior, which we call Behavior Change
3. external “reality”, which we call, Outer Work
Inner Work:
vision: working with purpose, vision and mission to energize [...]
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