One way to describe it, given our polycrisis and the extent of left brained abstraction, is that our task as responsible elders is to help people become more fully human.
There are a number of experiential approaches that can contribute to this. Some that I found useful in my own journey included;
• Improvisational acting
• Training in Aikido
• Feldenkrais group lessons
Each of these disciplines cultivates our ability to be in the moment and be in process. Improvisational acting in particular is a means to activate intuition and spontaneity.
Not to be shy, my own Creativity Games is a useful manual.
Robin Grille’s Parenting for a Peaceful World goes into how child abuse and abandonment impairs people’s capacity for empathy… and, conversely, the critical importance of parental empathy for child’s health and emotional development. A key leverage point for evolving a healthy society in the West is to support new parents in learning how to be more present and intuitive with their children
Grille draws on the pioneering work of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause. DeMause puts forward massive evidence to show that by today’s standards most children in the West since Greco-Roman times have been criminally abused. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that childrearing, mysteriously, has been improving. Many parents now raise their children in what deMause called ‘Helping’ mode parenting – supporting kids in developing in their own unique way. Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society epitomizes this style. Summerhill School in England embodies it.
Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score intimately describes highly effective experiential psychotherapy techniques. They work surprisingly rapidly. He has the brain scans to show changes in blood flow.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use for themselves to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not develop techniques. The reason I chose these specific techniques is because not only can people do them on their own, importantly, they are easy to teach to others. In doing so, one is not acting as a professional therapist, but as a trainer. As people resolve their emotional triggers our innate capacity for love and compassion emerges spontaneously.
As ‘responsible elders’ who wish to initiate proactive responses to our polycrisis, we do well to introduce these techniques to people we know. I do this occasionally.
More generally, I think we do well to commit ourselves to inspiring public will to change course. FYI, Stable Planet Alliance has a new program: The League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Evolutionary Catalysts communicate with people they know as well as with influential decision-makers about the disastrous reality of current trends and the system that drives them including – ouch! – economic growth and addiction to affluence. http://www.evolutionarycatalyst.net
The point of such communication, provided we can find ways to take it to scale (Stable Planet has ideas!) is to mobilize thoughtful public will to change course… and indeed evolve a compassionate ecologically sustainable world.
One way to describe it, given our polycrisis and the extent of left brained abstraction, is that our task as responsible elders is to help people become more fully human.
There are a number of experiential approaches that can contribute to this. Some that I found useful in my own journey included;
• Improvisational acting
• Training in Aikido
• Feldenkrais group lessons
Each of these disciplines cultivates our ability to be in the moment and be in process. Improvisational acting in particular is a means to activate intuition and spontaneity.
Not to be shy, my own Creativity Games is a useful manual.
Robin Grille’s Parenting for a Peaceful World goes into how child abuse and abandonment impairs people’s capacity for empathy… and, conversely, the critical importance of parental empathy for child’s health and emotional development. A key leverage point for evolving a healthy society in the West is to support new parents in learning how to be more present and intuitive with their children
Grille draws on the pioneering work of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause. DeMause puts forward massive evidence to show that by today’s standards most children in the West since Greco-Roman times have been criminally abused. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that childrearing, mysteriously, has been improving. Many parents now raise their children in what deMause called ‘Helping’ mode parenting – supporting kids in developing in their own unique way. Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society epitomizes this style. Summerhill School in England embodies it.
Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score intimately describes highly effective experiential psychotherapy techniques. They work surprisingly rapidly. He has the brain scans to show changes in blood flow.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use for themselves to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not develop techniques. The reason I chose these specific techniques is because not only can people do them on their own, importantly, they are easy to teach to others. In doing so, one is not acting as a professional therapist, but as a trainer. As people resolve their emotional triggers our innate capacity for love and compassion emerges spontaneously.
As ‘responsible elders’ who wish to initiate proactive responses to our polycrisis, we do well to introduce these techniques to people we know. I do this occasionally.
More generally, I think we do well to commit ourselves to inspiring public will to change course. FYI, Stable Planet Alliance has a new program: The League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Evolutionary Catalysts communicate with people they know as well as with influential decision-makers about the disastrous reality of current trends and the system that drives them including – ouch! – economic growth and addiction to affluence. http://www.evolutionarycatalyst.net
The point of such communication, provided we can find ways to take it to scale (Stable Planet has ideas!) is to mobilize thoughtful public will to change course… and indeed evolve a compassionate ecologically sustainable world.
Wow’. The conversation with Ian McGilchrist so inspiring thank you BOTH so much
Please find a unique Illuminated Understanding of our situation via these related references:
The World As Light
http://beezone.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/The-World-As-Light-Introduction-to-the-Art-of-Adi Da-Samraj.pdf
http://acsforum.org/beyond-modernism-perfect-abstraction-in-adi-da-samrajs-orpheus-and-linead-suites
Reality as Indivisible Conscious Light
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds18.html
Hi Rachel,
One way to describe it, given our polycrisis and the extent of left brained abstraction, is that our task as responsible elders is to help people become more fully human.
There are a number of experiential approaches that can contribute to this. Some that I found useful in my own journey included;
• Improvisational acting
• Training in Aikido
• Feldenkrais group lessons
Each of these disciplines cultivates our ability to be in the moment and be in process. Improvisational acting in particular is a means to activate intuition and spontaneity.
Not to be shy, my own Creativity Games is a useful manual.
Robin Grille’s Parenting for a Peaceful World goes into how child abuse and abandonment impairs people’s capacity for empathy… and, conversely, the critical importance of parental empathy for child’s health and emotional development. A key leverage point for evolving a healthy society in the West is to support new parents in learning how to be more present and intuitive with their children
Grille draws on the pioneering work of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause. DeMause puts forward massive evidence to show that by today’s standards most children in the West since Greco-Roman times have been criminally abused. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that childrearing, mysteriously, has been improving. Many parents now raise their children in what deMause called ‘Helping’ mode parenting – supporting kids in developing in their own unique way. Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society epitomizes this style. Summerhill School in England embodies it.
Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score intimately describes highly effective experiential psychotherapy techniques. They work surprisingly rapidly. He has the brain scans to show changes in blood flow.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use for themselves to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not develop techniques. The reason I chose these specific techniques is because not only can people do them on their own, importantly, they are easy to teach to others. In doing so, one is not acting as a professional therapist, but as a trainer. As people resolve their emotional triggers our innate capacity for love and compassion emerges spontaneously.
As ‘responsible elders’ who wish to initiate proactive responses to our polycrisis, we do well to introduce these techniques to people we know. I do this occasionally.
More generally, I think we do well to commit ourselves to inspiring public will to change course. FYI, Stable Planet Alliance has a new program: The League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Evolutionary Catalysts communicate with people they know as well as with influential decision-makers about the disastrous reality of current trends and the system that drives them including – ouch! – economic growth and addiction to affluence. http://www.evolutionarycatalyst.net
The point of such communication, provided we can find ways to take it to scale (Stable Planet has ideas!) is to mobilize thoughtful public will to change course… and indeed evolve a compassionate ecologically sustainable world.
Andrew.Gaines@evolutionarycatalyst.net
Hi Rachel,
One way to describe it, given our polycrisis and the extent of left brained abstraction, is that our task as responsible elders is to help people become more fully human.
There are a number of experiential approaches that can contribute to this. Some that I found useful in my own journey included;
• Improvisational acting
• Training in Aikido
• Feldenkrais group lessons
Each of these disciplines cultivates our ability to be in the moment and be in process. Improvisational acting in particular is a means to activate intuition and spontaneity.
Not to be shy, my own Creativity Games is a useful manual.
Robin Grille’s Parenting for a Peaceful World goes into how child abuse and abandonment impairs people’s capacity for empathy… and, conversely, the critical importance of parental empathy for child’s health and emotional development. A key leverage point for evolving a healthy society in the West is to support new parents in learning how to be more present and intuitive with their children
Grille draws on the pioneering work of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause. DeMause puts forward massive evidence to show that by today’s standards most children in the West since Greco-Roman times have been criminally abused. That’s the bad news.
The good news is that childrearing, mysteriously, has been improving. Many parents now raise their children in what deMause called ‘Helping’ mode parenting – supporting kids in developing in their own unique way. Robin Williams in The Dead Poets Society epitomizes this style. Summerhill School in England embodies it.
Research psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score intimately describes highly effective experiential psychotherapy techniques. They work surprisingly rapidly. He has the brain scans to show changes in blood flow.
My own Inner Work is a manual of techniques people can use for themselves to resolve their own emotional triggers. I did not develop techniques. The reason I chose these specific techniques is because not only can people do them on their own, importantly, they are easy to teach to others. In doing so, one is not acting as a professional therapist, but as a trainer. As people resolve their emotional triggers our innate capacity for love and compassion emerges spontaneously.
As ‘responsible elders’ who wish to initiate proactive responses to our polycrisis, we do well to introduce these techniques to people we know. I do this occasionally.
More generally, I think we do well to commit ourselves to inspiring public will to change course. FYI, Stable Planet Alliance has a new program: The League of Evolutionary Catalysts. Evolutionary Catalysts communicate with people they know as well as with influential decision-makers about the disastrous reality of current trends and the system that drives them including – ouch! – economic growth and addiction to affluence. http://www.evolutionarycatalyst.net
The point of such communication, provided we can find ways to take it to scale (Stable Planet has ideas!) is to mobilize thoughtful public will to change course… and indeed evolve a compassionate ecologically sustainable world.
Andrew.Gaines@evolutionarycatalyst.net