Walter Logeman: Journal
I heard this interview with Kim Hill and made a new year resolution!
Listen to an interview of Dr. Esselstyn in a recent New Zealand radio interview: Click here
Later: Saturday, January 8, 2011
So far so good!
I have a copy of the interview here as well:
Leadership in a Networked World http://peggyholman.com/leadership-in-a-networked-world/
NVC Non-Violent Communication, how to identify needs in self and others and how to speak without shaming, blaming and criticising is one of the four or five disciplines that I’d like everyone in the world to know how to do.
Language is important, but as Moreno said:
The analysis of language, useful as it is in itself. does not lead to any change in behavior. It has to be followed up by methods of action learning which train the pupil to think and act below and beyond the boundaries of language.
That’s why I think there are four or five disciplines, but none of them sufficient alone.
The radical democracy of organisms « Future Primitive Podcasts:
Mae-Wan speaks with Joanna about “quantum jazz biology”, the transition phase we are experiencing, the organic revolution, science/art/life…
Listen to the audio.
The science here and the politics might be a bit dubious, but for all that there is a lot here to take on board, I can see how it relates to group work and couple work.
The environment impacts on the Genome
The social anarchy of nature
Quantum Phases and Quantum Coherence:
Quantum coherence implies all that and more. Think of a gathering of consummate musicians playing jazz together (‘quantum jazz’) where every single player is freely improvising from moment to moment and yet keeping in tune and in rhythm with the spontaneity of the whole. It is a special kind of wholeness that maximizes both local freedom and global cohesion.
I wrote the post about art before I heard this! It is a scarily synchronistic!
What Is Life? – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schrödinger. The book was based on a course of public lectures delivered by Schrödinger in February 1943, under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at Trinity College, Dublin. The lectures attracted an audience of about 400, who were warned “that the subject-matter was a difficult one and that the lectures could not be termed popular, even though the physicist’s most dreaded weapon, mathematical deduction, would hardly be utilized.”[1] Schrödinger’s lecture focused on one important question: “how can the events in space and time which take place within the spatial boundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?”[1]
In the book, Schrödinger introduced the idea of an “aperiodic crystal” that contained genetic information in its configuration of covalent chemical bonds. In the 1950s, this idea stimulated enthusiasm for discovering the genetic molecule. Although the existence of DNA had been known since 1869, its role in reproduction and its helical shape were still unknown at the time of Schrödinger’s lecture. In retrospect, Schrödinger’s aperiodic crystal can be viewed as a well-reasoned theoretical prediction of what biologists should have been looking for during their search for genetic material. Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, credited Schrödinger’s book with presenting an early theoretical description of how the storage of genetic information would work, and acknowledged the book as a source of inspiration for his initial research.[2]
I came across Miller & Duncan in an audio by Rick & Sherry Stolp. (My post & links here)
This research makes more sense than most, as it is strongly practice based. The difference between modalities is not as relevant as the therapist, for example. Listening to your clients feedback is important and responding accordingly helps!
Scott D Miller
http://www.scottdmiller.com
http://www.centerforclinicalexcellence.com
Barry Duncan
http://www.heartandsoulofchange.com
http://www.whatsrightwithyou.com
Barry Duncan on YouTube
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Psychotherapy: Practice Based Evidence to the Rescue
I was looking for stuff on the four universals of Moreno, but found this instead, bought it.
“Mind-bending. . . . [Greene] is both a gifted theoretical physicist and a graceful popularizer [with] virtuoso explanatory skills.” —The Oregonian “Brian Greene is the new Hawking, only better.” — The Times (London)
Greene, Brian. The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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My recent post: Can we Survive? is a draft for an item in a psychodrama publication. In that post I link Wisdom Councils and – Creative Insight Councils to the Sociometric methods of J.L. Moreno. The main idea is that there is a lager community and the small group resonates with the larger group in isomoprhic harmony, and can thus give back compelling insights and wisdom.
In this post I want to add a related idea.
From Dynamic Facilitation and the Wisdom Council theory I have got it clear that a small group can achieve something in addition to personal therapy for its members, and assist an organisation or community in developing its life, and in its decision making.
Jim Rough calls it “option creating”, I am not yet sure exactly what he means by this but it is not just a list of possibilities or wild ideas from a brainstorming session. The breakthrough in a group happens when there is an insight into a real option – something the whole group would like to see happen.
Such breakthroughs are possible over the longer time frame of a group, of diverse members, meeting for several days and sharing at a deep level. Traditional meetings can’t achieve this depth.
For a group to be of use to a larger community there needs to be a thorough warm-up before the event as to the purpose and context. While in psychodrama we are aware of the importance of the frame, I have not experienced a group in that tradition that has the focus of leading to outcomes for the whole community. In our organisations we tend to make decision in meetings, and while there is plenty of interaction and depth work, it is not specifically an clearly focussed on future actions. There may be specialist sub-committees, or work groups, but they tend to be by the people with special positions an ongoing positions within the organisation.
Imagine randomly selected diverse small group – from an organisation or community – doing depth work groups with the task of one or two of the following topics:
What is our strategic plan?
What is our vision?
Principles for the Constitution.
Who should be a member?
The group would present its findings to all members of the community or larger organisation and its governing in one a4 document, and 20 minute audio file at a special hui for the occasion.
Peggy Holman Founder of Open Space
via Self-Portrait – Peggy Holman.
What is an underlying question that gives form to your work or interest in this field?
“How do we seed, grow, and evolve enlightened communities and inspired organizations?”
Some links and snippets on the science of consciousness.