When ‘bringing your whole self to work’ and ‘taking care of each other’ starts to erode the… I ended my previous series of blog posts with some reflections on Holding emotional selves in a working team.
I mentioned that more and more, in new-ways-of-working, there is the notion and the intention to bring the whole person to work and into the organization. There should be more room for people’s emotional side to show up as is habit in mainstream business practice, but most teams, organisations and networks get stuck when more intense emotions are at play. Although I wrote it many months ago, the issue of how to deal with intense emotions in a team where there is no boss or coordinator has certainly not lost its importance! In the different networks around self-organisation and self-management that I know or I am part of, like Enspiral, Somas Mas and Percolab, I have heard over time different stories of where emotional charge between team members has taken over the work on the business itself. How the confusion builds up… Dr. Clare W. Graves. Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap by Clare W.
Graves [From The Futurist, 1974, pp. 72-87. Edited with embedded comments by Edward Cornish, World Future Society.] View Summary Table from the Article A new psychological theory holds that human beings exist at different ‘levels of existence.’ For many people the prospect of the future is dimmed by what they see as a moral breakdown of our society at both the public and private level.
The error which most people make when they think about human values is that they assume the nature of man is fixed and there is a single set of human values by which he should live. Briefly, what I am proposing is that the psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man's existential problems change.
Human existence can be likened to a symphony with six themes. Human Progress Can Be Arrested 1. Dr. Clare W. Graves. Presencing Institute. Living Between Safety and Damage. – Bryan Ungard – Medium. Self-development is never safe, but it shouldn’t harm either.
Yes, it’s a painful process full of hurt, anxiety, and uncertainty, but it is also full of connection, warmth, and joy. Our attention seems drawn to the pain. Why is it so painful? Our habitual patterns of being, thinking, and acting are there to protect us from pain. They serve to guard who we “think” we are. Ken Mcleod has defined a few terms in a way I find helpful: Pain: A sensation. If self-development is working toward freedom from suffering — to no longer be driven by our reactivity, then the path is through the pain and hurt. Safety is a problem too. Safety means to be protected from danger, risk, or injury, but we think we need more of it than we do.
We can choose to live in that zone, to consciously commit to facing reality. The zone between safety and damage is where life happens. Introducing…. The Golden Pandas – Golden Pandas – Medium. The Golden Pandas: Part 1.
Make Decisions Together. Optimising for Emergence – Loomio Blog. “Emergence” is an ugly buzzword for a truly magnificent concept that is central to our vision for Loomio.
Jeffrey Goldstein defines emergence as “the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems”. Emergent phenomena tend to arise when many individuals interact with their environment, without central control, in ways that are governed by simple rules. Emergence in Nature There are lots of striking examples of emergence in nature. Termites cooperate to build termite mounds with no pre-existing building plan, and no “queen” to oversee or coordinate activity. To build a single termite mound in an environment consisting of randomly-scattered wood chips, each termite in a group only needs to follow one simple rule: Whilst wandering randomly If you find a chip then pick it up unless you’re already carrying a chip in which case drop it [source] Further reading Like this: Like Loading...
Related In "News" Six Circles for Harmless Organising. Vulnerability and consent – Enspiral Tales – Medium. This isn’t about what you might have thought when you read the headline, and I promise I didn’t choose those words as clickbait.
I’ve never been really afraid to share what I’m thinking. As you can imagine, that’s got me into trouble over and over and over again. Once I even had a boss that wasn’t afraid to name it ‘Susan, you’ll never rise above middle management because you say what you really think’. I have been told more than once, within a few weeks or months of joining a firm that I was like a ‘breath of fresh air’ because I call it as I see it, unafraid to name the unnamed. On reflection, some of that is about my tendency to ‘think out loud’ and also probably because I’ve never had a lot of patience for learning let alone practicing the unwritten rules of organisational politics.
My expressiveness is not always delightful.