Archive for March 4th, 2007
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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