Newsletter from the week of 08 October 2006, complete with links.
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08 October 2006
In This Issue:
Whole-Systems Considerations
Book Review - The Invisible Landscape
Focus On Coaching
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Hi and Welcome,
Oh...my...goodness ... there has been a lot going on. That could be said about what’s been going on in the world, the country and my life ... especially “professionally.” I’ve personally shifting dramatically these days ... this shift has been welling up for a few years now ... and as simply put as possible it’s time to let go of the safety rope.
I’ve always been at the edge to begin with regarding playing it safe all along ... challenging the norm as it were. Now what I’m ready, willing and able to be doing I’m organizing around really turning the system on its head so to speak.
Let me give you an example to start ...
Ninety-nine percent of all materials and processes that exist today in the world of professional “change-agents” are organized around “problem-solving” models. To put this remarkably simply ... these models begin from “What’s NOT Working” - a phrase anyone who’s been around me at all has heard from me ad nauseum.
Yet there exists a way to approach this kind of work from the unique position of “What’s Working.” This has been the model I’ve been developing for more than a decade. I learned the essentials of this model while I was studying with Roye Fraser learning about his “Generative Imprint(tm)” Model with him.
Over the years I’ve immersed myself in working within this model ... i.e.: beginning from “What’s Works” and organizing to a positive, future-based outcome oriented model. I’ve extended my thinking about working in this way to include a significant amount of attention on the issue of the social systems that people operate within.
This generates a significant shift away from they way I’ve approached things in the past ... and towards a much more integrated model of working with entire systems in a whole-form manner. Instead of attending to the individual within the system or a subjective orientation ... what I’m suggesting instigates a consideration of the system containing the individuals that comprise it and shaping them vs. the other way around. This position would be an “inter-subjective” orientation.
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“The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent
, oscillating , spiraling process marked by progressive
subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer,
higher-order systems as man’s existential problems change.”
-Clare W. Graves 1914-1986
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Continuing the themes I’ve begun in the past I’ve written about some of the social systems issues I’ve written about above. Here are some of the one’s I think you may find most relevant ...
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Whole-Systems Considerations:
1/Living Aesthetically - Shifting the perspective from which you are operating can make all the difference when you are trying to decide what to make of the world around you. An aesthetic orientation has a distinctly different flavor to it than a purely functional orientation - however learning to overlay the function orientation with a highly aesthetic filter repositions the entire response pattern you will have in the world.
2/Where Problems Don’t Exist - This is actually one of my favorite posts recently. I review the entire idea of “framing” and “boundaries” in regard to generating outcomes and performances. Getting how to set boundaries properly BEFORE YOU BEGIN ACTING can make all the difference between success and failure. Take a look at this posting for some revealing information ...
3/Resetting the Bar - In this posting I really take some liberty about sharing my personal journey with you. Specifically, where I’ve been and where I perceive myself going. However, I think the value of this posting lies in the restating of the considerations I’m holding in regard to how I’m reorganizing myself to make the next steps forward on my own personal journey fulfilling. For anyone who’s been on such a journey or who finds themselves on one now this will be a shared sense of experience.
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Book Review - The Invisible Landscape
I’ve been reading a lot of really interesting books lately, some of them particularly aligned with the ideas that have been capturing my attention lately in a very general way. Of them I’ve really been enjoying one in particular:
The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I-Ching
by Dennis and Terrance McKenna,1976
They wrote this book a long time ago now and I still find it relevant to understanding the human desire for an expanded sense of consciousness. These brothers wrote this book about their experiences exploring the landscape occupied primarily by shamans and schizophrenics. They expound a model of human consciousness and a teleological model of the universe. Terence in particular developed a “time-wave” description of the universe moving towards a pre-destined endpoint that I think makes the whole book worthwhile alone.
The Invisible Landscape
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Focus on Coaching
I’ve made it as clear as I can that I am reorienting myself towards building a very elite performance coaching practice built around the models I’ve been developing for the last fifteen or so years and most specifically the refinements to these models that I’ve added in over the last two of those years. Now what I’ve begun to realize even more than ever before could be said to include the deep value of the coaching interaction itself.
The key contained in this realization revolves around the positioning of this interaction in the larger society that the coaching work addresses. Simply put it would be difficult if not impossible to accomplish the kinds of outcomes that coaching addresses without including the consideration of the context in which they are realized.
Many other kinds of “developmental” activities find themselves attending primarily to the individual’s experience or the individual’s performance - as does most coaching by the way. However “coaching” as I’m redefining it here attends to the larger frame first - the impact of the outcome in the system in which it occurs and the ripples back to the client of that realization.
The way I normally include this in the work I do takes the client beyond the point where the outcome has been realized and from there I have them consider the impact FIRST IN THE SYSTEM, AND ONLY AFTERWARDS ON HOW THAT IMPACT REFLECTS BACK TO THEM. This builds a fully represented sense of the outcome having been attained with a full consideration of the space-time components being included in the representation in terms of their “real-time” coordinates.
In other words instead of building a fantasy representation of what it will be like to have attained their outcomes, I first build the future context with my clients and then position the outcomes they say they want there. Then I have them consider the impact of these outcomes on the system-at-large and how this impact in turn impacts them.
Working in this way I have often avoided my clients eventual disappointment when they realize that attaining the outcomes they have set for themselves won’t actually get them what they want.
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Unconventional Advice
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