Truth
Welcome to session 3
In this third session we will hear the presentations from the different dialogue groups. See for the assignment the second session on Group_Dialogue. We will also reflect together on how working with the different conversational fields went.
Here is the ppt on Creativity that you study before session 4.
File:20091117 INTI Session 3 Creativity.ppt 20091117_INTI_Session_3_Creativity.ppt (file)
IMPORTANT!!
-Prepare with your group a nice creative surprising presentation that will entertain and educate the rest of the class.
See you in class!
Anouk
Overview of Group Dialogue session assignment
To download the document go here [to handout with dialogue session [1]].
Handout with Dialoguing Session 2: Integral Group Dialogue about the Integral Framework
Assignment 2 – Integral Group Dialogue about the Integral Framework
Important Introduction In this session we will practice a different way of working together called “dialoguing”. You need to prepare yourself for it. Read and do this assignment carefully because both truly understanding the framework and conducting a fruitful and inspiring dialogue about it, is an academic and intellectual challenge to all! Start by reading this explanation:
Fields of conversation:
Field 1 Talking nice: Polite conversation on surface topics
Field 2 Talking tough: Debate, discussion, reactive, intention to win
Field 3 Reflective dialogue: listening to understand other, talking to reveal and reflect. Questions to uncover new information from an individual into group.
Field 4 Generative dialogue: “Being talked”, collective process of enlightened communication. Speaking with awareness, listening to inner and outer communications, together building understanding and uncovering new truth and insights. Being aware if each contribution builds on or detracts from the Field 4 and learn from that. Multiple perspectives and levels surface. Questions to reveal new insights and more questions to group and self.
Dialoguing explained http://www.solonline.org/pra/tool/dialogue.html
Dialoguing is a different way of being together than having a debate, a discussion or even a conversation. It is more inquisitive and exploring. We can awaken it again by slowing down our thinking and allowing ourselves to be more inclusive, fluid and tentative in our thoughts. This, in itself, creates the kind of peripheral vision that allows for the more improvisational and creative dimension of our thinking to emerge.
The practicality of this is implied by Gary Hamel when he says, "The critical lack in businesses today are not resources or strategies, but imagination." The imagination is revitalized by acknowledging the truth of what is real. The new leaders will be those who are able to create spaces and processes for skillful conversation. Through surfacing the underlying images and structures of our thinking, and making the implicit explicit, we create the possibility of re-imagining ourselves, our organizations, and the quality of our work.
Through such practices as listening openly to one another without resistance, of framing questions which lead us in the direction to the mystery rather than to the answers, of following the subtle impulse of our thinking and inquiry, by suspending, examining, and reconsidering the validity of our own assumptions and beliefs and examining many different points of view, and reclaiming our capacity for an immediate and first-hand experience through touch, taste, hearing and sight, we begin to establish a dialogic relationship.
Part 1; Assignment Zero, shared intention on field 3
1 A round of names, introducing yourself
2 Appoint at least a chairperson, note taker and time watcher. Make a realistic time schedule together and share responsibility to stick to it.
3 Read the text “ Dialoguing explained” together
4 Start practicing dialoguing (Field 3) and building the space for later with having a conversation about the outcomes of assignment zero. One by one, everybody introduces themselves and share about their “zero state”. Others listen with the intention to truly understand where this person is coming from. If the person is done, others ask a few clarifying and deepening questions. Maximum of 5 min per person. Subjects can be what drew you to this course, which topics or questions do you want to explore, what happened during the meditation and visualization exercises, how is your relation with your intuition, etc.
Part 2; The Integral Vision, shared intention on field 4
1 Make a group shift from your attention and intention on Field 3 to going to Field 4. Take a short silence to make the shift and become even more present. This is a living, unfolding experience. Do your best, but hold it lightly . Remind each other gently if you seem to have dropped to Field 1 or 2 and take the challenge of giving optimal receptivity AND optimal contribution.
2 While listening, take notes of interesting comments, insights and questions you hear from others or have yourself.
3 Start with everybody giving their personal short summary of what is Integral Theory as they understand it so far.
4 After that, together summarize each chapter as best as possible. Adjust your personal summaries to your new understanding. Dialogue the chapters one by one.
After that, summarize total theory.
5 Than take a minute to come up with and share 3 insights and 3 questions you have. Answer the questions:
1) What is useful about this framework?
2) Do you have any questions to be clarified or critical remarks left? After taking some silent time individually, have a sharing round. During sharing round only listening and clarifying questions. Everybody gets as much time they need to finish their perspectives. Than clarifying questions. After everybody spoke there is room for meta remarks or integrative insights or questions.
6 Together explore and apply the integral framework to the area of Intuitive Intelligence as best as you can. Be creative, brilliant, confused, go wild!
7 Conclusions and insights: Together ..
1) decide upon the 3 most important group insights or conclusions about the benefits of this framework.
2) Show & explain your application of the integral framework in the area of the use and development of intuitive intelligence.
3) List the questions you have left that you would like to find the answer to.
8 Come up with a creative, clear and capturing way to summarize your experience and present it (step 7) in session 3.
You are allowed to work on it after this afternoon, make sure you are prepared for the presentation in session 3. All share accountability for making a co-creating a great presentation.
9 Shared Evaluation: make a round reflecting on how it went with playing with the fields and the material. The listening, the sharing, the building a tangible field of collective exploration.
10 Individually: make sure you have your own notes and the group outcomes and put them in your reflections of this session along with comments on how it went and additions to your summaries.
=== Below here you find interesting optional information ===
Optional Recommended Literature by university professor horticultural production chains and zen-teacher Olaf van Kooten
Go to Alanwatts to read the article from Alan Watts called "The Language of Metaphysical Experience" from “Become What You Are” Shambala, Boston 2003. Olaf writes: I just read the attached text and I was so struck by it's preciseness, that I feel the urge to share it with you.
Go to AQALhomeless to read an article on serving Homeless people from an integral perspective. This is a great article if you want to read an example of a practical application of the AQAL model.
AQAL Summary
Click here to see or download this file.
The Truth about the Truth – Science, Buddhism and Integral Theory
The truth about the truth by Olaf van Kooten
As a young boy I was very intrigued by questions like: why are we here if we die anyway? Or: how come my arm moves if I want it to? Many such questions were running around in my young brains and I tried looking in many places for answers. Popular scientific programs on radio and later TV were devoured by me. But also stories from different cultures and religions were absorbed and found to be very attractive. In high school I went for the natural sciences, but also I searched in comparative religious studies. I had the idea that if I could find the common denominator in religions of different cultural backgrounds, it would allow me to know what was really true instead of ‘cultured truth’. While studying physics at the university I was shocked by the possibility that certain scientific discoveries could not be distinguished as being either a discovery of something actually out there or a creation of something new in reality through human thinking. By training myself through zen meditation I became acquainted with the Buddhist approach toward truth and the human condition therein. It became clear that we like to tell each other and ourselves stories about reality. That is very helpful for communication and for allowing us to operate intelligently in our social reality. However, we tend to directly believe that these stories are the truth. And our brains are wired from childhood to do everything possible to prove or believe that this is the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Careful self-reflection as it occurs in meditation helps to take our own experience out of the center of the universe (Buddha), like science has taken our world outside of the center of the universe (Galileo Galilei). I will try to explain the positive effects of regular meditation on scientific endeavors and your experience of the self in this reality, but also some of the pitfalls that might occur.
Olaf van Kooten’s websites:
His chairgroup and his personal spot on it.
The Zen website and his personal “Zen biography” (in Dutch).
Websites for reference and great video material
Website for this course with video and material: www.intuitieveintelligentie.nl
Website Kenkon training centre for Zen, martial arts and Integral Impulse activities: http://kenkon.org/wp/en/home/
Website from Integral Institute with lots of (free) video and audio material explaining integral: http://integrallife.com/
Youtube video’s on Zen and the western world: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMJzfmIoFc The Zen Mind - An Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK_4Z5DZcNM&NR=1 More videos like this: http://www.youtube.com/user/emptymindfilms Amazing demonstration of Chi power: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df29sII8VUM
Powerpoint presentation
Click here to download Olaf's powerpoint presentation on "The Truth about the Truth"
Click here to download powerpoint presentation "The Truth about the Truth" with great links to websites for reference.
File:Intuitive Intelligence session 2 per 2 2008-2009.ppt
Video links of this session in per 2 2007-2008
- All presentations in this session on video!
NOTE! Paste these media file links into your Windows Media Player at File / Open URL
Afternoon English session part 1: mms://mediaserver.web.wur.nl/eduweb1/IntI/13112007-6-Anouk.wmv
Afternoon English session part 2: mms://mediaserver.web.wur.nl/eduweb1/IntI/13112007-7-Anouk.wmv
Afternoon English session part 3: mms://mediaserver.web.wur.nl/eduweb1/IntI/13112007-8-Anouk.wmv
Evening Dutch sessions:
Evening Dutch session 1 part 1: mms://mediaserver.web.wur.nl/eduweb1/IntI/13112007-9-Anouk.wmv
Evening Dutch session 1 part 2: mms://mediaserver.web.wur.nl/eduweb1/IntI/13112007-10-Anouk.wmv
Evening Dutch session 1 part 3: mms://mediaserver.web.wur.nl/eduweb1/IntI/13112007-11-Anouk.wmv
