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November 5, 2015
Glenda Eoyang uses Adaptive Action to engage viewers in a discussion about emotional knowing. What? Difference generates tension. Tension generates energy. Energy generates change. So what? Notice and understand patterns of tension in self. Identify options for action. Now what? Find your own best wise action.
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I have always been a bit skeptical about paths that promise personal transformation. I’m not sure why. Maybe I followed the promise one too many times—or one too few—and was disappointed. Maybe it is because my family pattern grew out of Protestant Puritanism, where my individual, subjective state wasn’t considered all that interesting.
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Mindfulness is a topic today that many people are talking about. I am not an expert in mindfulness. In fact, I am only recently beginning to build a practice of mindfulness.
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Mary Nations, shares a church service she recently helped to design and deliver as they explored the impact of difference and bias. It’s a powerful study of courage in the face of fear and how narratives—spoken, sung, and read—can share the lessons we must learn from the history that’s described in her homily.
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Radical Inquiry is a process of reflection and exploration that helps you build system-wide clarity and coherence. As you become clearer about the patterns you want, you find ways to engage with others and your environment to set conditions to influence the emergence of those patterns. It's a process of looking deeply into the roots of a system to identify actions that can bring you to best fit.
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To see patterns in the world around you is to know your world and to understand something about that world. You make sense of the world by recognizing the patterns around you.