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John Keats was a key figure of the second generation of English Romantic poets. He lived from 1795 to 1821. Keats' poetry is characterized by sensual imagery and a focus on themes of beauty, love, nature, and fancy. As a Romantic poet, Keats emphasized appreciation of life, love, and beauty despite his own depression and impending death. He was heavily influenced by ancient Greek and Roman texts as well as Shakespeare, and focused on themes of death, sorrow, love, and nature that were common to Romanticism. Some of Keats' most famous works include "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and "Ode to a Nightingale."
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Theory U Exec Summary
1) The document summarizes Otto Scharmer's book Theory U, which introduces the concept of "presencing" - a heightened state of attention that allows individuals and groups to operate from a future space of possibility.
2) Effective leadership depends on the inner place from which a leader operates, but this dimension is often a "blind spot." Theory U identifies four "fields of attention" that determine how groups respond to situations.
3) Moving from reactive responses based on past knowledge to generative responses that address root issues is the key leadership challenge, requiring a journey through the "U" process of five core movements: observe, retreat and reflect, prototype the future.
Beyond ego
The document discusses how the ego resists change and wants to maintain the status quo for the sake of self-preservation and comfort. It explores how developing self-awareness and observing one's thoughts from a detached perspective can help diminish the power of the ego. Leaders who have achieved a state of "final integration" beyond their limited ego are better able to bring perspective, freedom, and creativity to others as they have a more universal and unified vision.
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Theory U is a framework for facilitating profound social change that involves tuning into one's open mind, open heart, and open will. It provides a process for accessing deeper levels of thinking and connection through suspending judgement, reversing cynicism, and overcoming fear. By connecting to the source of inspiration and going to a place of silence, one can allow an emerging future to take shape through crystallizing a vision, prototyping, and embodying insights into everyday practices. Practitioners have found Theory U useful for assessing group dynamics, guiding communities through transition, and cultivating a culture of deeper listening and collective insight.
If You Till It, They Will Come
This document discusses nurturing collective leadership by creating the conditions for it to emerge. It emphasizes increasing complexity in problems requires tapping collective wisdom. It recommends organizing stakeholders, issuing invitations, developing shared narratives, and imagining thriving systems to cultivate shared leadership. Social technologies like open dialogue and sociocratic principles can facilitate distributed networks and engagement of the whole system.
Spiritual archetypes..docx
Spiritual archetypes are symbolic representations of different aspects of our human experience, and understanding them can help us gain a deeper insight into ourselves and the world around us.
In spiritual terms, an archetype is a universal symbol or pattern that is found across cultures and time periods.
Spiritual archetypes are symbols or patterns that represent different aspects of the human experience. They can help us understand our deepest desires, fears, and motivations, and can provide us with a framework for personal growth and transformation.
Mike Brearley
The document discusses the power of stories and narratives in shaping identity and behavior. It emphasizes that those who cannot control or change the stories that dominate their lives will feel powerless. It also discusses different levels of learning and emotional intelligence, including self-awareness, resilience, and relationship skills. Story archetypes like the hero, wise man, and teacher are presented as are principles for developing well-rounded self-awareness and integrity.
Seven Steps to Making a Difference for the WorldDr. Leo P. C.docx
Seven Steps to Making a Difference for the World
Dr. Leo P. Corriveau, Plymouth State University
Step 1: Preparation for Leadership
In some fundamental sense, we can not learn how to have relationships, how to raise kids, how to lead others – how to be human, if you will. Why? Because to a great extent it is the very condition of not knowing, of being vulnerable to and surprised by life, of being unable to manage or control our lovers, our children, or our colleagues that makes us human. (Farson, 40)
We can not begin to accept the responsibility of leadership without first acknowledging our humanity, both in its limits and its marvels. The first task in knowing that humanity is to come to terms with the limitations that being human places upon us and, paradoxically, by accepting these limitations we free ourselves to receive the boundless riches that human existence holds for each of us. We who lead cannot afford the self congratulation which comes from seeing ourselves above the fray of human striving, nor can we allow ourselves to be fooled by the skewed vision that such egotism affords. Instead, if we are to be worthy of guiding others, we must first have the strength to accept our own human failings for we cannot see the truth in others until we see the truth in ourselves.
Bennis writes, “To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life”. He observes that knowing thyself is “the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you cannot succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word.” (Kouzes, 59)
Bennis is doing more than simply encouraging us to become the “captain of our own ship”. The making of a life in the truest sense happens from the inside out and not from the outside in. We are, many times, so busy becoming who we think we need to be (or should be) that we often ignore that faint voice of the true self within our soul. The choice to reconcile that faint inner voice with the cacophony of the outer world and to balance the two within our human being takes courage to begin, determination to continue, and humility to accept the truths that unfold. Such a life journey will in the end afford you a sense of who you are, your place in the world, and that you belong where you have chosen to be.
Our best qualities are integrity, dedication, magnanimity, humility, openness, and creativity. These, of course, are the basic ingredients of leadership, and our unwillingness to tap these qualities in ourselves explains, to a large extent, the leadership shortage. (Bennis, 117)
“The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” Each human being is filled with the great qualities of the human race. The choice to use those qualities or more precisely to answer to their demands is not easy and, many times, is contradictory to our own sense of self preservation. There will always be a shortage of.
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e live in a time of massive institutional fail-
ure, collectively creating results that no-
body wants. Climate change. AIDS.
Hunger. Poverty. Violence. Terrorism. The foundations
of our social, economic, ecological, and spiritual well-
being are in peril.
Why do our attempts to deal with the challenges of our
time so often fail? The cause of our collective failure is
that we are blind to the deeper dimension of leadership
and transformational change. This “blind spot” exists
not only in our collective leadership but also in our
everyday social interactions. We are blind to the source
dimension from which effective leadership and social ac-
tion come into being.
We know a great deal about what leaders do and how
they do it. But we know very little about the inner place,
the source from which they operate.
Successful leadership depends on the quality of attention
and intention that the leader brings to any situation. Two
leaders in the same circumstances doing the same thing
can bring about completely different outcomes, depend-
ing on the inner place from which each operates. I
learned this from the late Bill O’Brien, who’d served as
CEO of Hanover Insurance. When I asked him to sum
up his most important learning experience in leading pro-
found change, he responded, “The success of an inter-
vention depends on the interior condition of the
intervenor.” The nature of this inner place in leaders is
something of a mystery to us. Studies of athletes’ minds
and imaginations as they prepare for a competitive event
have led to practices designed to enhance athletic perfor-
mance “from the inside out,” so to speak. Deep states of
attention and awareness are well known by top athletes in
sports. For example, Bill Russell, the key player on the
most successful basketball team ever (the Boston Celtics,
who won 11 championships in 13 years), described his
experience of playing in the zone as follows:
Every so often a Celtics game would heat up so that it be-
came more than a physical or even mental game, and
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would be magical. That feeling is difficult to describe, and
I certainly never talked about it when I was playing. When
it happened, I could feel my play rise to a new level. It
came rarely, and would last anywhere from five minutes to
a whole quarter, or more. . . .
At that special level, all sorts of odd things happened: The
game would be in the white heat of competition, and yet
somehow I wouldn’t feel competitive, which is a miracle in
itself. I’d be putting out the maximum effort, straining,
coughing up parts of my lungs as we ran, and yet I never
felt the pain. The game would move so quickly that every
fake, cut, and pass would be surprising, and yet nothing
could surprise me. It was almost as if we were playing in
slow motion. During those spells, I could almost sens.
No God. No Atheism.pdf
Belief in god is not virtuous or righteous, or a sign of intelligence. Mere belief is a sign of ignorance, despite what religionist and moralist claim. Most everybody is looking for something to give them hope and validation that supports their dreams or fears. A ‘believers’s faith’ in the anthropomorphic god has never made ‘him’ real…or ever will. If this god were real, there would be no need for belief and faith. Does anyone believe and have faith in the sun being real? Better to believe that the sun is god.
THE eARTh OF AGILE - a story notebook
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This storytelling process about The Future of Work is
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Politics and Personality
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Be Creative
1. Be Creative!
2. Group Activity SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTION: What helps you to be creative?
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4. The Target of Life is a very helpful way to understand our individual and collective well-being.
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6. We experience more fear and negativity. We say and do things we regret. The immune system weakens and our productivity declines. We lose touch with what’s really important to us. Unhealthy stress increases and our sensitivity toward others decreases. And the further away from the center we move, the worse it gets!
7. That’s why it’s so important to catch early signs of stress, and to use all of our creativity to stay as centered as possible. When we are centered in the heart on the Target of Life, difficulties still crop up, but we can handle them much more smoothly and effectively. The more centered we are, the greater our well-being, the wiser our choices, and the more effective we are in everything we do.
8. Creativity is the power to bring something new and useful into existence.
9. You are an enormously creative person! That creativity is always within you, and you must express it in order to experience the satisfaction and joy that is your birthright.
10. Terrorism, widespread public scandals, economic uncertainties, international conflicts, and a host of other problems have launched us into a turbulent, yet potential-filled 21st century. Has the full measure of our creativity ever been needed more?
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12. Group Activity SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTION: What are some factors that keep people from becoming more creative?
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16. Continually remind yourself of this truth: You are a
(My) Personal Paradigms
This is a talk I have successfully given 3x prior for over 120 people, and it's been profound the response I've had. This talk is about the structure of evolution, and self-evolution, in particular.
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It contains some solid frameworks for developing more resilient, flexible, and accurate "roadmaps" for decision-making and life-having.
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Thinking: The Inner Life of the Mind
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Understanding Emotional Intelligence
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The psychological secret
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1.2 Doing Philosophy
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Yolo County Non-Positional Thinking
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