An Overview of
Exploring Personal and Community Effectiveness
Summary
Guided Imagery as Metaphor
What am I noticing?
Reflection
Consider possible interpretations of meaning.
Write in your journal if you would like.
Questions to ask ourselves:
Share as inspired.
Tools for Empowerment
Self-Actualization and Universal Synergy - Definitions
Self-actualization
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/self-actualization
Universal Synergy
Universal - of, relating to, or affecting the entire universe https://www.thefreedictionary.com/universal
Synergy - the interaction of two or more agents or forces so that their combined effect is greater than the sum of their individual effects https://www.thefreedictionary.com/synergy
Questions to ask Ourselves
What does Self-actualization mean to me?
What do I believe Self-actualization involves?
What does Universal Synergy mean to me?
What do I believe Universal Synergy involves?
Purpose, Vision, and Mission
of Self-Actualization and Universal Synergy
for our Communities and World
Purpose (The Why):
To co-create the world we know we know in our hearts is possible
Vision (The What):
Self-actualized/integrated individuals are collaboratively and synergistically co-creating the "The Ideal Universal Society”; the world we know in our hearts is possible, a free, peaceful, healthy, just, collaborative, and regenerative world where we all thrive in harmony.
Mission (The How):
Self-Actualization - from the Union Team
(mind, body, and spirit)
Individual Integration may involve:
Some Characteristics of Self-actualizing people
They have a sense of their inner authority and are less influenced by their conditioning.
They have an increased sense of autonomy and individuality. They experience a sense of agency and responsibility for their life.
They are comfortable being themselves. They don’t try to conform or seek approval from others.
They have healthy interpersonal relationships. They are good at listening, understanding, and communicating with others.
They have an enhanced identification with humanity. They don't limit their identity with one particular race or culture.
They are creative and innovative. They have great access to creativity and spontaneity.
They cultivate their unique skills and talents. They work toward excellence in what is important to them.
They live on purpose with a sense of mission and service to others. They do what they love to do and share it with others.
They experience mindful presence, access to flow states, aliveness, open-heartedness, love/compassion/forgiveness, gratitude, and humility.
They continually move towards unity and integration. They synthesize all information into a deeper understanding.
- Adapted from https://actualizeos.com
Universal Synergy - from the Union Team
Participants’ Reflections
Questions to ask ourselves:
What does Self-actualization mean to me?
What do I believe Self-actualization involves?
What does Universal Synergy mean to me?
What do I believe Universal Synergy involves?
Share as moved.
Essentials of Self-Actualization
Essentials of Universal Synergy
Significant Resources
TIPS FOR ACHIEVING A BETTER LIFESTYLE
Integral Life and Ken Wilber's AQAL Integral Map
(AQAL: “all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, all types”)
Actualize OS (Actualize Operating System) - A Training to Install a New Operating System for Your Mind that Illuminates the Full Spectrum of Your Potentials to Actualize the Greatest Possible Version of Yourself
A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, by Eckhart Tolle
Conscious Manifestation 2022 with Eckhart Tolle - A Course to Fulfill Your Highest Purpose and Create from the Fullness of Being
Daniel Schmachtenberger’s talk at Emergence
Our Story with Barbara Marx Hubbard, the Wheel of Co-creation, the Peace Room, PVMs of CEB and IUS, ACE Training Outline
Resources for Conscious Collaborating
- Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy is based on all members having a voice, in the round at times, all voices being equal, and decisions (as good enough for now, safe enough to try with a method of evaluation within a time frame) being made by active consent, with objections as well reasoned "arguments" being welcome to deepen the conversation and account for unintended consequences. https://www.sociocracyforall.org/
- Bohm Dialogue
https://www.bohmdialogue.org/
“If we are to live in harmony with ourselves and with nature, we need to be able to communicate freely in a creative movement in which no one permanently holds to or otherwise defends his own ideas.” https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/12/05/david-bohm-on-dialogue/
- Collective Presencing
“...the practice brings the benefit of generating wise action on behalf of the whole, as well as a deep, ongoing engagement with the social and natural field—the level from which generative social transformation of the kind we so badly need can spring.”
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/collective-presencing-a-new-human-capacity/
https://www.collectivepresencing.org/
- Goethean Conversation
"The purpose of Goethean conversations is to call forth a fullness of spiritual life, not to stage displays of intellectual fireworks. They strive to enter the sun-warm realm of living thoughts where a thinker uses all of himself as a tool of knowledge, where – in the manner of his thinking – he takes part as a creative spirit in the ongoing creative process of the cosmos."
https://docplayer.net/102479399-The-art-of-goethean-conversation.html
https://leadtogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Art-of-Goethean-Conversation.pdf
- Eckhart Tolle's wisdom on presence is about allowing for the "evolutionary impulse" to prompt/inspire us into "awakened doing" (vs. "egoic efforting"). https://eckharttolle.com/a-new-earth-excerpt/
Reflections and
Preparing for our Deeper Dive Session
What is your feedback, your thoughts and ideas;
what do you desire to share?
What do you desire to contribute?
How do you desire to collaborate?