Your Native Perspective: Why Meetings Suck
June 03, 2009 17:03
Dear friends,
I am thrilled to bring you Your Native Perspective: Why Meetings Suck, the first piece in a new series of content that Integral Life is producing using our forthcoming Integral Coaching methodology. This methodology is the most powerful application of integral theory that Ken Wilber or I have ever seen, developed and thoroughly tested for the past 6 years by Integral Coaching Canada, our exclusive Integral Coaching certification partner.
Don’t miss this. If you’ve watched nothing else this year, watch this. (It will take less than 15 minutes.) It might make you laugh—I laughed the whole way through!—and grimace (“oh, that is definitely me”), but we hope it also opens up another door of self-awareness to help you lead your Integral Life.
Think you understand quadrants? Not like this you don’t. This is powerful stuff. Don’t be fooled because we’ve set this role-playing exercise in the setting of a business meeting; it will apply to your entire life. It will help you understand business meetings better, like why can they at times be so dreadful?, but as you watch, go deeper and see if you can spot which quadrant you “orient from.” Hint: it’s easy to get it wrong, so “try on” all four quadrant orientations over the coming weeks.
Then watch it unfold. As you explore your own Native Perspective watch all of the ways this new awareness helps you understand your communication with your intimate partner or colleagues, your reactions, your intentions, even your hobbies! The results are eye-opening, inspiring, challenging, funny, and no doubt painful (the best kind, of course).
And let’s go deeper together. Over the coming months, please join us in the community by blogging about what you’re finding out about your Native Perspective and by replying to the inquiries we’ve posted with this exercise. This sort of community interaction can be fun and frustrating as we watch our own perspectives “rub up against” those of others. But think of the Integral Life community as the practice field for life, where you can try out this new skill alongside friends who are making their way through it with you.
To more freedom and fullness, and with much love,
Robb Smith
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