One of my faithful workshop colleagues described a state of being in which he found himself having said "yes" to far more things than he had wished. He asked Roger to speak about how to usefully say "No."
Roger began by saying that usefully saying "no" is largely about managing your attention. The state described occurs when one's attention is fragmented so that they say "yes" when the thing is in conflict with some other commitment that one has.
The three things to consider when saying "No" are:
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Day 9: Tracing the Cause of Cyclic Chaos and other teaming traps
Okay, I admit that I am intentionally titling by alliteration...
During the check in, Roger noted again some of us complaining of the experience of personal and professional chaos. He suggested a method of working with this experience. First, if the suffering has a cyclic or predictable quality to it, consider yourself the evil genius of your own life, having mastered the ability to cyclically produce your experience of suffering. (This was said in jest, since the actual condition is that we are strategically unconscious to our production of this condition).
A way in which you can work with tracing the cause (but perhaps "cause" is too strong of a word), is by working at three levels: the personal dynamics, the transpersonal dynamics (system) and the perceptual reality.
During the check in, Roger noted again some of us complaining of the experience of personal and professional chaos. He suggested a method of working with this experience. First, if the suffering has a cyclic or predictable quality to it, consider yourself the evil genius of your own life, having mastered the ability to cyclically produce your experience of suffering. (This was said in jest, since the actual condition is that we are strategically unconscious to our production of this condition).
A way in which you can work with tracing the cause (but perhaps "cause" is too strong of a word), is by working at three levels: the personal dynamics, the transpersonal dynamics (system) and the perceptual reality.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Day 8: Conflating One's Metaphorical Survival with Actual Survival
Our Feb 25 class collectively addressed a question about online classes. What is the reason it seems so difficult to implement online classes at Cal Poly? Is the change that is needed structural or does it just need the right mix of people to make it happen? Roger quickly lets us know that to answer the question, we have to identify the background conversations going on around the issue. First, we note that this idea comes up again and again and it always seems that although a fair number of people say, yes, this needs to happen, it never quite does. Why is it a cyclic event?
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