by Alan Briskin | Collective Wisdom
The background to this new Huffington Post was a chance encounter between Carl Jung and the theologian and Chinese scholar, Richard Wilhelm. Jung had been struggling with early formulations of a collective unconscious when Wilhelm sent him the Taoist text, The Secret of the Golden Flower. The manuscript helped crystallize Jung’s thinking about both the collective unconscious and synchronicity. The Taoist parable, in this post, captured for Jung the beauty and mysterious interconnection that exists between our inner attitude and outer events.
Read my latest Huffington Post article.
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by Alan Briskin | Politics
Dear Colleagues,
I’ve gotten wonderful feedback on my latest Huffington post, Springtime for Authoritarians, and wanted to share it again for those who have not seen it.
Also, I’ve been in contact with Jonathan Weiler, who is mentioned in the post, and he sent me a wonderful interview he did on CNN regarding the relevance of authoritarianism in understanding our current political climate.
And please LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, and DISCUSS with friends. It is through generous acts of sharing the ideas you value that our collective conversations deepen and bear fruit.
by Alan Briskin | Collective Folly, Conflict, Politics, Self Awareness
In this new post, I write about a meeting with one of my first mentors, whose study of authoritarianism awakened my interest in the subtle interplay between personality and social system. With a nod to Mel Brooks, a salute to Daniel Goleman, and a bow to Maya Angelou, I explore a new generation of thinking about the role authoritarianism plays in our current social and political climate.
Read my latest Huffington Post article.
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by Alan Briskin | Collective Wisdom, Leadership
What is the role of the sacred in your life? Have the sacred dimensions become marginalized, dismissed, or ignored in the organizational world? Is the sacred purely a personal matter relevant only to the individual or is it part of our group and collective evolution toward social cohesion and resilience?
Please join me during the week of September 5th for an extraordinary five days of learning, reflection, and collective discovery. The first days of the conference will be dedicated to exploring how the sacred was first illuminated in our lives and how that initial experience has grown or faded over time. Then, with the visual magic of my colleague and co-host David Sibbet, we will begin to map our collective journey, showing how the sacred reveals itself in various patterns as we discover our learning edges in the process.
During our time together we will investigate how ritual, ceremony, and the natural world are central to remembering and recreating the sacred in contemporary times. The conference will be held on the exquisite land of the Beuerhof in the middle of Vulkan Eifel, in Germany. This land has ties to ancient European roots and has been deeply influenced by Lakota Native American practices, including a sweat lodge on the facilities. We expect the land itself to be a powerful participant.
For those of you who have followed my work from The Stirring of Soul in the Workplace to The Power of Collective Wisdom, you know that I believe the personal is embedded in the Universal and that we are constantly co-creating the collective fields by which we operate in. This conference represents a living laboratory and celebration of these ideas coming into global awareness.
Please register during this early bird month for a discounted rate. I hope to see you there.
by Alan Briskin | Collective Wisdom, Emotional Intelligence, Politics
For those interested in applying mindfulness and emotional intelligence to larger social forces, read my latest Huffington Post article.
The political fanning of flames, the surging up of anger, and the demonization of the other are all signals, at the collective level, of something deeply unsettled. We have reason to be cautious and alert to the dangers ahead. However, our inner attitude matters a great deal. If we succumb to despair or simply meet anger with anger, we will fail to bring forward a new ethic that embraces the reality of our interconnectedness. Let us be a growing network of evolutionary humans who meet anger with curiosity and loving resolve.
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Warm Regards, Alan
