“For each of us, you’ve got to be very quiet to hear your unique dharma, your unique way of expression. Somebody comes along and their major thing in life is to regain the rights of indigenous peoples. Someone else comes along and their major thing is to awaken people to environmental degradation. Someone else comes along and their major thing is to clean up the incredible oppression of women.

It isn’t a question of which thing is worse, or which is more worthwhile. Each person has to hear what is their part in the whole process of how their compassion expresses itself. I am doing this gig. This is my part. It’s no better than your part, it’s just my part. I’m not under some illusion that I have a different part and I honor everybody else’s part, I just have to constantly keep listening to hear what my part is anew.” Ram Dass

I’ve noticed that sometimes our major sources of frustration have the potential to orient our purpose. That’s my experience at least. When I just graduated and I entered the world of work, what I saw there inspired me deeply. So almost a decade later- I would work to transform it as a consultant and coach. I continue to listen to my purpose. And it continues to evolve.

So….What is your part right now? What are the major sources of frustration in your life? How might they be linked to your purpose in this world?

If you feel curious about how Integral Coaching can support you in this journey contact me for a 20 min. free session.

Winter is here.

Leaves keep on falling. In the northern hemisphere, the nature rests.
This awareness invites me to look inside. Not too engage in too much action. To pause. To listen carefully. To consider.

In order to do so, I hear the calls for action from the world. And to some I say, it’s not time yet. I promise to listen to my internal rhythms. So I can discern when the time has come.

My soul rests in silence. Nourished deeply, getting ready for what’s to come. I do not know what will be, nor do I need to.

For now I embrace stillness. Looking inside. Not knowing. Just being.

And in doing so, I invite you to connect with the part of you that yearns to stop and listen. What message does this part have for your? How can you honor it? ¿Which practices, spaces or activities can you nourish it?

Today
by Mary Oliver

Today I’m flying low and I’m

not saying a word.

I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

The world goes on as it must,

the bees in the garden rumbling a little,

the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten.

And so forth.

But I’m taking the day off.

Quiet as a feather.

I hardly move though really I’m traveling

a terrific distance.

Stillness. One of the doors

into the temple.

For a concrete practice on Stillness,  the 10 points practice by Dharma Ocean is a simple and powerful. You can access it here.

(post 06/02/13)

“What is your view of the current world situation- I asked George Pór?

Well, I’m going to sit down to talk about this. How I see it is that there are two currents running at the same time. From one side, the world is getting worse and worse. Ecological crisis, economic ones, exclusion, poverty. And on the other, things are getting better and better, a greater awareness, creative movements, revolutions. Both currents are increasing in speed more and more. So when two currents like that operate at the same time, a clear result of it is chaos. An increase of chaos.

In a way ,to understand the moment we’re in, it is helpful to think about the image of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. There is a moment, where the structure of the caterpillar starts to collapse, and the organism, lives in a cell-soup full of potential. The caterpillar is no longer a caterpillar but it is still not a butterfly. In this soup the key challenge is for the cells of the butterfly recognise each other and organise themselves to form the butterfly. So now, in this precise moment, the key challenge is that individuals willing to create a new society recognise each other. They recognise each other and don’t fall into ego traps of “I dont’ like you”, “this is not my thing”, “working collectively is too difficult”,and so on and so forth”

This one, and many other deep insights were shared on the 30, 31st of January and 1st of February, on the co-design workshop of the project Innovant Junts (Innovating together), hosted and promoted by CEICS, the Campus of International Excellence Southern Catalonia.

During this 3 days, we – George Pór, the pionner in collective intelligence, Jordi Cartanyà, the visionary director of CEICS, Yois Haro and Nuria Quince dynamic members of the CEICs team and myself – hosted a design meeting for 3 innovative communities of practice (CoPs), in the following domains: food, innovation and collective intelligence.

The gathering counted with around 30 individuals from the corporate world, research centers and health institutions with the curiosity and willingness to step into the unknown domain of learning together through CoPs. The framework we used was Theory U. We bravely engaged in Check-ins, Listen-up Harvesting and Visioning techniques. On the second day we celebrated a World Cafe to go deeper into the topics.

Each participant, thanks to CEICS, was given a book “Gatherings”, in order to encourage further the use of rEvolutionary techniques.

Before the 3 CoPs are officially launched in a couple of months, we are moving into a “transition phase”, where we will engage in specific tasks to nurture the initial efforts, water the seeds that were planted, coach and encourage the cells, every individual forming the CoP to recognise each other