Sunday, 20 May 2012

'Resistance is Futile.' - the Borg

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In conversations with friends recently the topic of anger kept rising. Here is my response to a friend who is keenly interested in and working towards more self discovery and, operating from a position of empowerment rather than victim.

Anger is rife in the world. I have a long term fear that we are only at the beginning of it all - collectively.

I welcome your observation on anger and resentment and your willingness to subvert and side step it by focussing on what is more important for you.

What is more important for you?

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Who's Process Is it Anyway (part 2)

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Intrusive behavior yields to non-intrusive behavior.

Recently I moved into a new office. An industrial space with concrete floors, big windows, high ceilings. The building houses an eclectic array of people:  many artists - painters, an art school, a stone-mason, a wholesale florist, renovation companies.  About half the tenants live here.

A neighbour approached me in the hallway and stood at my office door smoking a cigarette. He introduced himself, continued to smoke and flick his ash in the doorway. I spoke with him and asked him to refrain from smoking around me. Another person in the building did exactly the same thing and when I told him I did not like smoking in the common area - the hallway - he replied, "I guess that's your problem then."

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Who's Process Is it Anyway

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In the last decade of the 20th Century I was lucky enough to experience and participate in a leadership retreat, 21st Century Leadership, near San Francisco. Sometime after I was invited to attend Program Leader Training to learn to facilitate this course. Program Leader Training  had a number of ground rules that were designed to create an environment where participants had the greatest potential to learn. While all of the ground rules have an application in the world outside of the training room, one in particular is worthy of your consideration.

I honor my own and others' process. Intrusive behavior yields to non-intrusive behavior.

This ground rule I believe has the potential to change the world. I honor mine AND other people's process. Intrusive behavior yields to non-intrusive behavior.

There are some things I need to be clear about if I am to operate from this ground rule. The first of which is my process. What is it? How  is it? Is it really mine? Really, is it my process or have I just picked up some passing guru's process because they promised that it worked?!

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