How many of you are familiar with the theory of U?
not too many of you, huh?
what are you guys doing this time anyway?
its probably one of the biggest theories in organizational development
Peter Senge and the MIT group
they are doing some really interesting work
with like fortune 500
fortune 100 companies
in the theory of U
the U represents a process
where you starting you are going through this emptying out
that's the downward
you going down the U and you letting go
of all these attachments if you will
you go through your individual self and then you recognize that you are collective
your group also has all these presuppositions that you are
conditioned to hold onto
and your when you reach the bottom of the U
you're in a place where you are open to the the creative field
if you will
so you've gone through the emptying out process
and then there are sort of interesting because
there are this long term meditators
who are trying to find the language in the corporate world
and so they talk about opening to the positive future that wants to create itself
that's an interesting term
but in a sense
we are really appreciating
that the deepest creativity
is not within us but it is in a much deeper space
and so we trying to get out of our individual conditioning
that's where the first step is
we don't have to think of it in terms of this profound esoteric sort of thing
just think of it simply
but the more you practice it
I think the more rewarding it can be
that I really wanna open
to a mind that is much bigger than my individual mind
and then in the second step
we are looking to start tuning our filters
if you will
to prepare to do creative work
and the first part of that is we're setting the intention
so the basic question
that we are having here
sorry
is in this preparation
is what is it that you most want to create in your life
this is a simple question
and it can be a difficult process for some people
but is important in your mind that you stay simple
in your orientation what do you wanna create
if people could answer that clearly and simply
they probably wouldn't be paying you money
because is it's the inability to answer this first question
what makes everything else unworkable
in pre-therapy research
in models of pre-therapy work
it's required that you have a simple positive goal
to use the model
and therefore there's a lot of techniques
to help the client to find a simple positive goal
the research shows that
about one-third of the people even with these technical aids
cannot come up with a simple positive goal in the first session
they will come up with versions of 'I don't know'
or they'll come up with negative goals
'I just don't want to feel this'
'I just want to get rid of this'
the problem with holding that as a trance intention
is in the sort of the deeper levels of consciousness
it's harder to work with negatives
if a person is unable to give you a simple positive goal
and you are relentlessly interrogating them
it probably gives you feedback like I was mentioning before
the state that they are currently in
is incapable of generating a positive goal
make sense?
just as an obvious example
if you ask me what sort of
what I really want to create in my life
is that if I'm in this somatic filter
how difficult do you think it's gonna be for me
to say 'I want a great life'
you know 'I've got these dreams'
I've got this is probably pretty hard, right?
so part of our work is listening people up
you know, with the playfulness with tenderness and with good focus
we'll see those as the three sort of archetypal energies
tenderness, fierceness and playfulness
will start with this first question
and in order to get a positive goal
that is workable for creativity
we wanna make sure it is a rich enough description
so it moves across multiple modalities
we want words
we want the person to say it
we want visual images
we want color pictures
if possible
and we wanna a somatic model
what would be
what would that look like and feel like in your body
so that is partly what a coach is for
I'm here to connect you
with your intention
with your resources and - with your son and I'm here to make sure that you
stay connected to that
at every step of the way and as soon as you lose the connection
that's where the problems happen that's where the problems become
unmanageable
no that's when you go into these crash states
okay so this this is the first question now when we do Trance work
what you did notice that these questions are not merely
informational questions that every one of
these questions can be used as a Trance induction process
how do you do it? You take the process
and you start bringing musicality and resonance
and repetition through the
answer I'm usually when I listen to people
I I'm often listening to what's missing the sort of a counter balancer
and so if somebody is giving a lot of symbolic images
hours just like the sky and it's just like the universe
is the park my senses use is what that actually look like
out in your life you know I would just have total
a serenity you know what would actually look like
there other people the are missing
the forest for the trees the say well I want X,Y and Z
and in there they're to tied
exclusively into the outside world and how it should be
out there soul is the same
were whatever type of
energy or pattern that you're sensing
your especially in doing turn its work
wondering what it's about what's the opposite of that
because, because the unconscious is always dealing
and creative wholeness
and one of the main the
the most straightforward recipes for creative wholeness is whole opposites
could the conscious mind take sides
it's this and not that the unconscious
is holding the whole the whole
images so to speak this way I
young would say things like are
the symptom is usually an attempt
to balance the situation that the unconscious always compensatory
for the biases of the ego so
my ego mind says I have to work hard hard hard hard work harder
that person its
is probably going to develop a symptom that makes them unable to work
why?
what wisdom would there be well the unconscious is saying don't forget about
the balance view so well
if the unconcious is trying to balance by making them unable to move
how valuable is that but will be seen
the unconscious is not making that negative
it's your value that saying rest
is bad that is making the energy up
I'll the yin energy that's making that into a symptom