by Alan Briskin | Collective Wisdom, Spiritual Intelligence
Leading as Sacred Practice: A Retreat & Conference
September 5-9, 2016
http://facilitation.kommunikationslotsen.de/training/leading-as-sacred-practice/
Please join me and my colleagues, David Sibbet, Gisela Wendling, and Holger Scholz for an extraordinary five days of learning, reflection, and collective discovery. 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.
Is the sacred purely a personal matter or a critical aspect of our group and collective evolution? Has the sacred become marginalized or ignored in the organizational world? Can the sacred be integrated into our work as facilitators, consultants, conveners, and leaders? What is the role of the sacred in our own lives?
Together, we will explore these questions and seek ways to integrate the sacred in our own lives and in our work with clients.
The conference will be held on the exquisite land of the Beuerhof in the middle of Vulkan Eifel, in Germany. This volcanic soil holds memory of ancient European roots but has also been deeply influenced by Lakota Native American practices. We expect the land itself to be a powerful participant.
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.
I hope to see you there. Brochure and Registration:
http://facilitation.kommunikationslotsen.de/training/leading-as-sacred-practice/
Best,
Alan Briskin, co-author The Power of Collective Wisdom
by Alan Briskin | Collective Wisdom
September 5-9, 2016
Registration and Brochure
Please join me and my colleagues, David Sibbet, Gisela Wendling, and Holger Scholz for an extraordinary five days of learning, reflection, and collective discovery. 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.
Is the sacred purely a personal matter or a critical aspect of our group and collective evolution? Has the sacred become marginalized or ignored in the organizational world? Can the sacred be integrated into our work as facilitators, consultants, conveners, and leaders? What is the role of the sacred in our own lives?
Together, we will explore these questions and seek ways to integrate the sacred in our own lives and in our work with clients.
The conference will be held on the exquisite land of the Beuerhof in the middle of Vulkan Eifel, in Germany. This volcanic soil holds memory of ancient European roots but has also been deeply influenced by Lakota Native American practices. We expect the land itself to be a powerful participant.
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.
I hope to see you there. Brochure and Registration:
Best,
Alan Briskin, co-author The Power of Collective Wisdom
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.
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 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.
Please read my new Huff Post article and LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, and DISCUSS with friends.
Warm Regards, Alan
by Alan Briskin | Collective Folly, Collective Wisdom, Politics
One of the core practices of collective wisdom is seeing whole systems. This requires us to step out of our particular bubble and ask essential questions, to diagnose critical relationships within a system, and to work in subtle realms, including what is not immediately apparent. Most significantly, seeing whole systems asks us to embrace both the light and shadow of human interactions, having faith that greater coherence and healthy functioning communities can be a result.
On February 1, Iowa voters will cast ballots in caucuses throughout that state. Political and media pundits will be making grand pronouncements and throwing confusing percentages around like darts in an English pub. In the context of seeing whole systems, I question whether the Republican caucuses are a valid reflection of our democracy or a dangerous distortion. The national consequences are significant, as is our own ability to make sense of the chaos. Please share with friends as a healthy dose of medicine during feverish times. Read More.
