I recently had the opportunity to do this new, five-minute video with Dr. Ivan Misner, Founder & Chairman of Business Networking International. I share a two-step process for being able to connect emotionally with others in a way that always focuses on helping and supporting them which is critical for you to succeed in your own life, and relationships. If, after watching the video, you would be willing to share in the comment forum what you learned about yourself upon completing the two-step process, and also what you discovered as far as how you might better be able to form emotionally-charged connections with others, then we can all benefit from each other....
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In Conversation with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Barnet Bain. Excerpts from Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Regenopause: Evolving Masculine and Feminine Webinar. This extensive interview is spread out over six pages – it was so good, I had to publish the whole thing. Enjoy! Use the page links at the bottom to navigate to the next page. Barbara: And before we get going, I just want to introduce Barnet – so he can say a few words about how you feel about being in the chrysalis with me and all these people, probably mostly women? [Laughs] Barnet: Well, you know, right now we couldn’t be in more of a chrysalis. We’re so confined, and it’s so beautiful in here and cozy in here. [Barbara laughs] We have talked so long and so deeply and so blissfully about what it is to be in the chrysalis, from this man’s perspective it is a highly, highly dynamic experience. There’s nothing passive about it. And very often we hear people referring to this shift of paradigms, and we hear it referred to in so many different ways. But very often we hear about it as a passive experience, as something that happens to us. And that has not been my experience as a man in the chrysalis, which I refer to it in our conversations as the liminal state. It is the state of ‘between’. It’s not what was, and it is not what will be. But I experience myself as ‘not what was’. I am aware of what was. And I also am aware that I am not yet what will be. But I am in a very dynamic, dynamic practice, which at this point rises to the level of artisanship. I am discovering technique. And I invite you all to come with me a little bit as we explore the tools of technique that are used to fire up the creative, the space-filling component, the art-making component of what we will be, what we are birthing – the world waiting to be born through us. And these have to do with, from my perspective, certain energies that are primarily feminine. Now, when I speak of feminine energies or masculine energies, I’m not talking about gender here. I’m talking about the idealized feminine energy and the idealized masculine energy. These are the energies that need to be refined and remembered in men and women alike. The masculine energy: this is the energy that fills spaces. This is the creator energy. The idealized feminine energy: these are the energies that conceive even the possibility of something. It creates the potential for something, the spaciousness, the bubble that is blown “whwhwh” to create the womb for that which is yet to be born. And what is born, what it is that fills that space, is filled as a creation of masculine idealized energy. It works...
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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne’s Enterprise Thinking Network welcomes Barnet Bain to lead our sixth Ongoing Discussion on June 24th and 25th (and our 126th session since we began in 2000). For his title, Barnet has chosen “From Spectator to Spec-Actor,” a fitting topic to focus or conversations on the transformation process he’s been engaged in, both personally and through his films, including the Academy Award winning movie “What Dreams May Come.” As for Thought Pieces, Barnet has selected a 3-part interview he conducted in April with Filippo Voltaggio on the topic of subtext (links to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3), plus his online column, The Tao of Hollywood (link to be included). Please join your Ongoing Discussion colleagues from across the country and around the world for a conversation with Barnet on a theme that embraces the fundamental way in which the “prevailing system of management,” as defined by Dr. Deming, serves to perpetuate a set of beliefs that are self-limiting for a rapidly changing world. As a case in point, if our organizations are in need of being able to do “more for less,” then teamwork offers the value proposition of being able to work, learn, and innovate together. For a team to “work together,” the members participate on the team, rather than serve as spectators of the team. In doing so, apparent “spectators” become “spect-actors,” in Barnet’s simple play on words, wherein participation is a necessity for team work. In consideration of World Cup soccer (or, football for those outside the US), a player who is removed from the match, late in the game, to allow for a substitute player with more energy, is still a member of the team. So is the coach who guides the efforts and the many assistants who prepare the players before, after, and during the match. As the saying goes, “One for all and all for one,” and the efforts to score and win are well understood to be caused by the team, which extends to include equipment suppliers and customers, including us the fans. Who’s to blame for a disappointing outcome if all are “one”? Should blame be directed at another teammate, leading to “spectator” status, or to oneself reframed as response-ability, leading others to become “spect-actors.” Is blame itself an obsolete management mindset? Much the same can be asked re legislators who are elected to government, be it in the UK Parliament or the US Senate. For these officials to blame a faceless “Wall Street” or other specific corporate executives, is to bring into question the status of the officials, who have thereby adopted spectator status. Far different would be for the Senators to inquire as to how the legislation contributed to the disappointing outcome and to see their own role in it. Likewise, far different would be for automobile drivers to see themselves as spect-actors of the recent...
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