accessing our untapped inner resources
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ACCESSING OUR UNTAPPED INNER RESOURCES
A Workshop for Consultants, Coaches and Leaders Day 2 – October 19, 2013
Meditation
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Sharing insights
Questions
Connections
Check In
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Arnold Mindell, Ph.D
• Dance of the Ancient One : How the Universe Solves Personal and World Problems, 2013
• Process Mind: A User’s Guide to Connecting with the Mind of God, 2010
• Sitting in the Fire: Large group transformation using conflict and diversity, 1995
Maxx Schupbach and the Deep Democracy Institute
• http://www.deepdemocracyinstitute.org/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF_DOCS/DDIIMEUkraineInterviewKMBS.pdf
Process Work/ ProcessMind
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Introduction to Process Work
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Einstein’s Wish & Old One’s
“I want to know God’s thoughts…the rest are details.” *
“Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One.” **
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As Cited by A. Mindell in Process Mind *p xi and **p.3 Accessing Our Untapped Inner Resources 6
Arny Mindell’s Response
Know the Mind of God The Secret of the Old One
“Our task is to consistently ask, ‘What is the mind of God?’”*
Processmind – “the palpable, intelligent, organizing “force field” present behind our personal and large group processes and like other deep quantum patterns, behind processes of the universe”*
* Process Mind p.xi
Processmind – “an organizing factor that operates both our personal lives and in the universe.” **
“Studying and experiencing this processmind will connect the now separate disciplines of psychology, sociology, physics, and mysticism and provide new useful ways to relate to one another and the environment.”**
**Process Mind p. 4
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Levels of Awareness
Process Work emphasizes awareness and views reality from three levels
Consensus reality
Emerging reality (or Dreamland)
Non-locality or Essence
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Consensus Reality
Majority view, collective understanding about the nature of reality. “Real” things that can be worked on and talked about.
In an organization Number bricks and mortar assets, business process
facts, number of orders, etc, human resource facts, the amount of people that work for the group, bottom lines, quarterly profit statements and strategic decisions that are based on factual market studies.
Organizational goals, strategies, best practices they are trying to follow
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Emergent or Dreamland
Experiences are subjective, not measurable, and not in our control. They include team work and relationship issues, experiences of rank differences, somatic experiences, roles, double signals and our assumptions about each other
In an organization Less tangible, less visible, less agreed upon experiences
such as gossip, conflict, emotions, and other subjective experiences.
Includes stories, myths, and the history of the organization In Dreamland clients rarely identify with but project outside
themselves onto other people, groups, things, and events or experiences in the past or future
Happen “TO” a client or group © Elizabeth Reuthe
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Emergent or Dreamland Signals
What are the different roles that are playing out in the client’s field? What double signals (saying one thing and doing another) do you see?
What stories, roles, figures come up in gossip (the Ghosts)? What is the clients atmosphere like? What role represents the clients atmosphere?
Are there moods or low or high dreams present? What unexpected or unwanted occurrences,
accidents, events happened to this client in an organizational context?
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Essence Level
The deepest level of awareness at which we are all connected and interconnected.
No polarities, no good or bad, where everything is held
Cannot differentiate processes or roles from one another
It is non temporal, non-local, and lies at the root of consciousness. Tunnels under a polarity and can bring a group together
In an organization One might see a moment of unity in a group Roles, polarities, conflict disappear and a sense of oneness
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Other than an intimate relationship, think of some relationship problem situation where you feel (or felt) marginalized or hurt. Who used rank against you in that situation? Make a note.
What is the energy like of the person (or people) who used rank against you? Act out this energy Make a sketch of it, name it.
What part of you is most disturbed by that energy? Act it out and sense where you feel it most in your body. Express
it with a body motion.
Make a sketch of it and name that energy that is most disturbed.
Earth Spot Exercise* Demonstration
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Now choose a special earth spot. If there are many, spontaneously choose one to focus on in the moment.
Imagine that you go there. Look around and notice where you see these two energies in your earth spot?
The energy that disturbed you and
The energy that was most disturbed
Now feel yourself really there and let the earth spot breathe you and move you.
Let it begin to express the two energies as parts of itself as it moves you back and forth between them.
Earth Spot Exercise* Demonstration (2)
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Earth Spot Demo* (3)
As you are moving, sense how this earth spot is in the universe and the universe is all around it.
Feel how the universe’s spaces move you spontaneously about.
Feel the sense of “being moved” and continue until you feel yourself moving unpredictably.
When you sense the universe moving you freely, bring this movement experience back to the earth spot and let the dance (with its universe perspective) help you explore (and swing more deeply) between the two energies you found in the earth spot
Swing between the two until some insight occurs.
Make a note and share insights with a neighbor about how this experience helps with that original problem.
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Earth Spot Exercise
Find a partner to work with you
Let your partner guide you through the exercise and take notes in your journal
Especially make note of the energy drawings and names as well as insights that might come up
Take about 30 min and then switch
In the hour and 15 min you have for the exercise, decide when you will take your break
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Rank: Process Work’s Expansion on Hierarchy Lack of rank awareness is one of the biggest causes
of conflict and hurt in relationships (from personal to global relationships).
Often leaders are not aware of their own rank. They do not realize the impact of their behavior because they do not recognize their full rank. They see other people’s power but not necessarily their own.
Besides Contextual Rank (position power), they often have other types of rank that they do not recognize, value or appreciate and are therefore not likely to see how they might abuse their power.
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Types of Rank (2)
Psychological Rank/Personal Rank – based on psychological ability: feeling secure, confident and cared for – that you can hold your own. It enables us to imagine that we transcend other people’s problems, to be aloof from the disadvantaged. *
Spiritual Rank – Spiritual Rank “ comes from a relationship to something divine or transcendent. People who have it are in the world but not of it. They develop an independence from life and death, the social order and history, which confers on them a certain fearlessness.**
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Types of Rank (3)
Social Rank – can be unearned – acquired by birth, membership of race, class, gender, circumstance or personal history. It can also be earned through education, work, ambition etc.
Contextual Rank (Position Power) – depends on the community but includes position in life, at work, in community, culture, and family. Example: Rank when applying for a loan at a bank versus Rank when bringing a big check that you want them to invest for you.
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Personal Rank Exercise
Take a few minutes to make a note in your journal of all of the different types of rank that you have.
Find your partner from yesterday’s life story exercise. Ask them to review your list and see if you are missing any types of rank that you are not aware of.
Did you have any “Aaha’s!”?
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Questions/ Reactions/ Discussion
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Deep Democracy
In the field, there are many different aspects of ourselves. Process Work holds that if you don’t make a space for the
different aspects of a field to come out that they begin to leak out, bump out, blurt out, and even sometimes explode out.
All aspects need to be attended to and honored.
It is easier to think about these different aspects when we think about a group. Sometimes in a group it is painfully obvious that there are
very different opinions in a room. We also have these different aspects inside of ourselves and
they also need to be heard, attended to and honored.
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Deep Democracy Demo
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Deep Democracy Exercise
What is a problem or a dilemma that is facing you? Perhaps it is something that you would like to do but you seem to have trouble going forward? Or it is an old issue that keeps showing up.
Silence
What are the different voices that are showing up – that want to be heard? The part of me that I like the most (the one that is most familiar)? Is there a voice we might dislike? Are there critical voices? What are they saying
With a partner, Begin to give those different aspects of yourself a voice.
Ask your partner to make a note in your journal of the different voices.
Make a note of any insights that come up as well
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Process Mind/Presencing/ The Self Meditation
From the awareness asking yourself, “What insights are standing out for me from my deep democracy process.
Notice all the different voices that arose and their different energies. Being aware of all of these different aspects.
Isn’t there an awareness that is aware of all this?
Be the seeing
Silence © Elizabeth Reuthe [email protected] Adapted from Ramana Maharshi & E. MacDonald Accessing Our Untapped Inner Resources 25
Ramana Maharshi
The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, 1988
Talks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness, 2000
Ramana Marharshi
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Theory U and Otto Scharmer
Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges (the Social Technology of Presencing), 2009
Process Work and Arnold Mindell: Dance of the Ancient One, 2013
Process Mind, 2010
Sitting in the Fire, 1995
Ramana Maharshi:
The Spiritual Teachings of Ramana Maharshi, 1988
Talks with Ramana Maharshi: On Realizing Abiding Peace and Happiness, 2000
Further Reading
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Presencing Institute, MIT, Cambridge, MA www.ottoscharmer.com and
www.presencing.com
Process Work Institute, Portland, OR www.aamindell.net and www.processwork.org
Deep Democracy Institute, Portland, OR www.deepdemocracyinstitute.org
Association for the Happiness of All Mankind (AHAM), Asheboro, NC. www.aham.com
Ramanashraman, Tiruvanamalai, Tamil, Nadu, India (http://www.sriramanamaharshi.org)
Elizabeth MacDonald http://elizabethmacdonald0.blogspot.com/
Further Information
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