Aspects of life

Practice don’t Preach Theory U in 7 Breaths! 3rd Breath.

PRACTICE DON’T PREACH THEORY U IN 7 BREATHS! 3rd BREATH.

 

We open up our State of Being “emotion” within the safe listening space of Guest House Facilitation, and we effortlessly dive into “experiencing” and “sensing”.

 

Imagine we are spiritual beings (souls) on a journey to experience life on Earth in a physical body. Our Way of Being is our most important task. Theory U is a framework, a method for profound change and most of all a Way of Being, through which you can connect to the more authentic and higher aspects of yourself.

Today we embark on a learning journey to remember the capacity we have for “experiencing”. We gently open our State of Being emotion and with loving kindness we observe our judgments and connect more deeply with our soul’s purpose.

This article is one of a series of nine articles. The series reveals to you the magic of Guest House Facilitation, how it allows us to dance through Theory U, effortlessly and smoothly, in its precise time and its right space.

Dia17The first article facilitates our Guest House and brings awareness to this precious cosmic principle of the Life Pulse. The Life Pulse governs all of life in the Universe and also precisely governs all our processes and organizations.

The second article shape-shifts the “downloading” into a “processing of Self”. The key feature of this 1st breath is holding a Listening Space.

The third article extensively describes the 2nd breath. Opening reason facilitates by opening the intelligence of the brain, the “seeing” and “observing”. The key feature is curious asking: we begin to understand what we see.

From the diagram you can see that we have arrived at the 3rd Breath in the fourth article of this series.

 

Overview of the 3rd Breath

Dia05The 3rd Breath is again an inward movement of contraction (green on the following drawing), followed by a moment of stasis (red and at the inner edge of the U), continuing with an outward movement of expansion (blue) and coming to completion in another moment of stasis (again red and now at the outer edge of the U).

In the contraction we open our State of Being emotion in order for the “sensing” and “experiencing” to happen in the expansion. We continue our exploration in more detail.

 

Contraction

We bring awareness to the inward movement and we prepare to open our State of Being: emotion.

Dia11Let’s have a look at the graphic representation of the dance between our soul and our body-mind and how they play with the three different States of Being: reason, emotion and will. They match the mind, heart and will used in the Theory U model. In body-mind we discern the physical body (yellow) and the energy field (blue+orange+green) which it generates. This energy field permeates the physical body and extends out of the body. The energy consciousness of our body-mind is intermingled with the energy consciousness of our soul. In this energy field there are three major States of Being, which are reason (blue) the upper part, emotion (orange) the front part and will (green) the back part. Mind in our vocabulary is the whole of all the States of Being, it is our reason+emotion+will and together they give form to our personality.

 

By opening emotion we open the front of our energy field. Chakras are vortices of energy in our energy field and they are portals. The chakras mark the areas with high neural activity in our physical body – the plexuses. Emotion is the State of Being related with the front aspects from the fifth to the second chakra.

Each chakra harbours a psychological function. The front aspect of the fifth chakra encompasses assimilating, taking responsibility, and deeply listening. The front aspect of the fourth chakra holds our capacity for love in relationships. The front aspect of the third chakra represents intuition and your ego sense of Self. The front aspect of the second chakra is the quality of Self, the experiencing of Self.

We open the front aspect of these portals or chakras fifth to second, one by one, in order to achieve an open State of Being with regard to emotion.

You can read more about our magnificent potential and the dance between our soul and our body-mind in my book Becoming What is Changing: Exposition.

Contraction is an inward movement, a deep connection within us, an opportunity for introspection and assimilation of what has happened to us and around us in the expansion phase. This inward movement can unfold when we are alone or in relationship. We can perform our daily activities from an inward perspective.

Our energy field can be everything from big and charged to small and weak depending on our personal process with regard to our defences.

At this moment in our Guest House the contraction phase can have the form of profound sharing, from an inward connection. We share from deep inside of ourselves in an ongoing introspection and reflection.

As we continue our dance through Theory U, with our reason and emotion open, we achieve the ability to genuinely observe ourselves and how we tend to project outside of ourselves, judge ourselves and others. We judge when the organization needs to be different, the system needs to be different, our partner needs to be different, our parents should have been different, we have to be different.

A good entrance point is to look at ourselves with compassion and try to find out what our underlying needs are. Which of our needs are unmet and prompt us to judge? The State of Being, emotion, enables us to hold ourselves with a great deal of love. By bathing ourselves in love and compassion, we are able to allow a deeper level of connectedness and can risk letting go of objectification. We objectify as long as we consider ourselves separate from what we observe which can be another being, an organization or a system.

As we complete this contraction, we arrive at the phase of stasis.

 

Stasis

This stasis is a silence at the inner edge of the U, a place of being deep within our physical body. A moment of stasis in our Life Pulse is a good time to perform a ritual.

Dia24We connected with the group being at the start of our U in the 1st Breath. Often this is a good time to reconnect and to observe the differences in the connection.

We set our intention and commitment by aligning our soul channel. This soul channel is how we incarnate as a soul into this sacred physical body and how our soul starts the dance with our body-mind. It is our soul’s connection deeply grounded and supported through the core of the Earth, and inspired through our unique star in the Sky.

At this point I’ve observed that every participant is more able to notice the relationship with the group being.

The picture illustrates what happens. Each individual is much more connected to the group being: there is a nourishing of the group being and in turn individual beings are nourished by the group being. Each individual has changed the perspective of the soul (the blue dot) from the middle of the body-mind (the orange circle) to the edge of the body-mind. We all are more fully occupying our body-mind, as is the group being.

As we gather momentum for the next wave in stasis and without any agenda, we effortlessly reach a new level of perceiving.

The boundary between the organization, system, other and “us” that we are observing starts to vanish. The organization, system, other was the object of our attention at the start of our journey. We now begin to see how “we” are the organization. A deepening occurs and implies the redirection of attention from the object of our attention (the organization, the system, the other) to the process. This process is the energetic constellation of the group, it is our field, the group being of our workshop, training or gathering.

Stasis is not a non-movement, it is a silence that enables the movement to shift from inward to outward or vice versa. With each moment of stasis our soul and body-mind meet, greet each other, find each other and we connect with the field of endless possibilities deep within or far out in the Universe.

At this moment, in this 3rd Breath, we have arrived at our next wave of outward movement.

 

Expansion

“Expansion” is an outward movement towards the other, towards life. We experience life in relationship. Our energy field can be expanded or contracted depending on what is happening to us and around us. The state of our energy field does not define the phase of the Life Pulse.

Whatever happens to us and around us can affect us, trigger our defences, our patterns and dynamics.

As our States of Being reason and emotion are open at this stage of Theory U, we automatically begin to see, sense and feel in our bodies. This is the “Sensing” phase (step 3) in the table below.

CHALLENGE REACTING SOLUTION
Step 1: “DOWNLOADING”: viewing the world through our habits of thought, allowing our current reality to surface. Re-structuring

Step 7: “PERFORMING”: achieve results through actions, embedding the new into the larger context

SUSPENDING

OPEN MIND: Re-designing

EMBODYING
Step 2: “SEEING”: seeing reality with fresh eyes, suspend judgements, the system being observed is separate from those who observe

Step 6: “PROTOTYPING”: explore the future by doing, prototyping, enacting the new by being in dialogue with the Universe

REDIRECTING

OPEN HEART: Re-framing

ENACTING
Step 3: “SENSING”: the attention shifts to the inner way of seeing, from object to process. The boundary between observer and observed collapses.

Step 5: “CRYSTALLIZING”: the attention shifts from the inner vision to exterior action. Crystallising vision and intention, envisioning the new from the future that wants to emerge

LETTING-GO

OPEN WILL: Re-generating

LETTING-COME

 

Step 4: “PRESENCING”: Connection to the deepest source

As the host in Guest House Facilitation it is essential to keep your reason open, your emotion open and your will open. This is how you can follow the Life Pulse in the moment within the dynamic of your group.

The expansion is profound. In Guest House Facilitation we apply different practices to allow conversations that matter to effortlessly unfold. In the third article of this series we already touched into one of the New Space Technologies: Dynamic Facilitation. Dynamic Facilitation is a method invented by the genius of Jim Rough and is extensively described in Roza Zubizarreta’ book. Roza is a creative and inspired associate of the DF society, she wrote a useful manual on the principles of Dynamic Facilitation.

Dynamic Facilitation (DF) can be a catalyst in allowing participants to share with an open reason and emotion state of being. Participants engage simultaneously from their brain and their heart.

When something intuitively feels like a major contribution and one that requires a circle checking, I temporarily weaken the DF mode and switch to Circle Practice, a powerful and ancient form of gathering brought back into modern life by Ann Linea and Christina Baldwin. As I switch practices, I continue to take notes and to reflect what is said.

sensing xWe have a new graphic representation for this step and in Guest House Facilitation this refers to the dance between the soul and body-mind. The energy body of our soul now extends outside of the body-mind boundaries. You see the body-mind as an orange circle and the soul as the blue dots moving out of the safe container of the body-mind.

We move outwards in this expansion and deeply connect with each other. We experience in our body and at the same time the “sensing” happens from the whole field through the group being.

 

Stasis

We are most definitely reaching out to a deeper sense of connectedness at the end of this expansion phase. And again we find ourselves at the outer edge of our U.

We perceive in a different way, we are part of a bigger whole, and this is no longer an observation, we really become part of this bigger whole. There is no longer objectification, we are one with all living beings.

Stasis is always a moment of gathering momentum for the next wave to come. We are charging the group being and we charge our own energy field.

We prepare to dive deep into our personal processes in the 4th Breath.

 

A real 3rd Breath experience

The picture shows you a real third breath, which took place during a Guest House Facilitation Training in Berlin, in November 2014.

3rd breathYou can see that walking is part of our inward movement. This helps us to deeply integrate and assimilate all that has already unfolded through the steps of “processing the Self” and “seeing”.

Guest House Facilitation includes the activities of daily life as part of the experience. This enables you to have an even deeper awareness of the Life Pulse.

In this deep, inward stasis, participants are invited to check where they are in their own Life Pulse.

 

CONCLUSION

This 3r Breath brings us already deep within the U.

We observe, observe and observe. We go to the places with the most potential and we listen with our reason and emotion open.

We are unfolding the capacity for ‘experiencing’. We use this tool of ‘experiencing’ to understand what we do with what happens to us and around us. It is an active sensing as a group and it is experiencing as an individual. Where are you, what is happening in this precious body you inhabit? We still hold a Listening Space and our ability for Curious Asking. We are approaching the reconnection with our soul’s purpose at the bottom of the U.

We recognize what we see and we begin to be able to put words on what we see. There is an intelligence emerging from our heart and we begin to acknowledge this intelligence. We see with our heart. And so far there is still a split between what we do and what we say and think. How can we walk our talk?

In order to establish this we move on to the 4th breath and we sink into the “groan zone”.

Sam Kaner and his colleagues first introduced the term “groan zone” in 1998. They define the “groan zone” as a natural period of confusion in the process of participatory decision-making when difficult issues are on the agenda.

 

Much more is to come in the fifth article of this series next week.

If you like this series, please share it with your friends and colleagues.

Comments and stories are very welcome.

With love and appreciation

Veerle

GHF V in action 1

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

This series of nine articles could only arise with the amazing assistance of all those magnificent people who attended a Guest House Facilitation workshop or training. They provided me with wonderful experiences that contribute to our dance through the U. One of the participants, Elaine McGoogan co-created in a delightful way through her excellent and fluid editing work!

VEERLE DE BOCK is a social entrepreneur, a change-maker, physician, healer, facilitator, trainer, coach and author of the trilogy, Becoming What is Changing. She spent nearly three decades of her life as a physician specializing in geriatric care, including a 21-year career as department head in an Antwerp regional hospital. In 2003, she began her study as an energetic healer, teacher, process facilitator and supervisor at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and since 2007 has been leading many other trainees to master these same skills. In 2010 she was trained in the practice of Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough, which she now incorporates into her workshops and training sessions. In 2012 she decided to devote her work exclusively to writing, facilitation and coaching. That same year, she devised a new integrative practice of facilitation she calls ‘Guest House Facilitation’, that helps teams learn how to listen and utilise both the inner and outer processes within their organisation, to see it as a dynamic and living organism, and to reconnect to its intrinsic purpose and intention. Her book, Becoming What is Changing: Exposition, is the first part of a trilogy aimed at managers, team leaders and responsible employees who wish to bring this kind of transformation into the workplace, so they can create an environment where people are happy, satisfied and continuously growing.

 

http://www.chancestochange.com

http://twitter.com/VeerleDeBock

http://facebook.com/BecomingWhatIsChanging

 

Aspects of life

Practice don’t Preach Theory U in 7 Breaths! Invitation.

PRACTICE DON’T PREACH THEORY U IN 7 BREATHS! INVITATION.

 

Guest House Facilitation unravels the mystery of how Theory U unfolds, precisely as it should be, effortlessly and smoothly with the awareness of the Life Pulse.

 

How to bring Theory into practice? How can we hold space for the steps of Theory U regardless of the contributions of the participants, the constellation of your group and the available knowledge within the group?

Imagine bringing your awareness to your breath. A few deep breaths metaphorically bring you right down the U in connection with Source. A few more breaths and you act as an enlivened steward of life’s brilliant potential.

What is the mystery at play here, how does Theory U unfold with such divine precision – effortlessly and smoothly?

This series of articles offers you a step by step journey through Theory U. The first article is your personal invitation into our Guest House. We present our offerings. The next seven articles engage you more and more deeply with each breath. The final article in this series weaves all of it together.

 

 

Guest House Facilitation

Guest House Facilitation is a new and refreshing practice. The basic idea is the welcoming of all inner and outer guests. The inner guests are all our thoughts, feelings, emotions and sensations. The outer guests are all the participants. Everybody who is present has a role in the bigger whole. Even the whispers in the background are important.

The Latin word “facilitare” literally means making easy. I make the interaction with the outer participants and our inner parts easy.

I use Rumi’s well known poem the Guest House as a metaphor.

I do not prepare for “Guest House Facilitation” or have an agenda. It’s not possible to make plans for people who are not yet physically present. This prevents us from underestimating the amazing power, intelligence and leadership within the group.

You can read more about Guest House Facilitation on the website Chances to Change.

Theory U is a very precious presence in our Guest House Facilitation.

 

 

Theory U

Since its emergence around 2006, the founders of Theory U understand its purpose in three primary ways. The first is to understand it as a framework; the second is as a method for profound change; and the third is as a way of being through which you can connect to the more authentic and higher aspects of yourself.

Theory U is non-linear but for ease of reference throughout this series of articles, I have structured it into its linear form in the table below which summarises all the steps of Theory U, steps 1 through to 7.

 

CHALLENGE REACTING SOLUTION
Step 1:“DOWNLOADING”: viewing the world through our habits of thought, allowing our current reality to surface. Re-structuring Step 7:“PERFORMING”: achieve results through actions, embedding the new into the larger context
SUSPENDING OPEN MINDRe-designing EMBODYING
Step 2:“SEEING”: seeing reality with fresh eyes, suspend judgements, the system being observed is separate from those who observe Step 6:“PROTOTYPING”: explore the future by doing, prototyping, enacting the new by being in dialogue with the Universe
REDIRECTING OPEN HEARTRe-framing ENACTING
Step 3:“SENSING”: the attention shifts to the inner way of seeing, from object to process. The boundary between observer and observed collapses. Step 5:“CRYSTALLISING”: the attention shifts from the inner vision to exterior action. Crystallising vision and intention, envisioning the new from the future that wants to emerge
LETTING-GO OPEN WILLRe-generating LETTING-COME
Step 4: “PRESENCING”: Connection to the deepest source

We start here and we don’t know how the process will continue to unfold. We bring the cosmic principle of the Life Pulse into our Guest House Facilitation in order for us to dance with Theory U.

 

 

What is the Life Pulse?

The Life Pulse is a cosmic principle with sequential phases, always in a sequence of stasis, expansion, stasis, contraction and again stasis.

Stasis is a moment of silence, a pause to gather momentum to travel outside in expansion toward the other, in relationship or to travel inside in contraction, inward into yourself.
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You can experience this cosmic principle deep in your physical body. An easy way to understand what this means is to breath in and out deeply. You breath in, you pause, you breath out, you pause.

Breathing is one of the simplest versions of the Life Pulse.

 

In terms of the Life Pulse you breath in, you move inward, you nourish yourself, your blood is oxygenated, you pause in deep silence within the depth of you. You breath out, you reach out, speaking and singing happens on the outbreath –and at the end of the outbreath, there is another moment of silence, you reach another moment of connectedness.

After this stasis in connectedness you move back inward, this is contraction, you have time to integrate, to apply introspection and reflection. Your physical body is nourished.

 

To learn more about the principle of the Life Pulse, please see the Pathwork Guide, Lecture No. 55 – The Cosmic Expanding, Retracting and Static Principles (http://www.pathwork.org).

 

In the Life Pulse Mystery you can read how this cosmic principle enables us to play with the concept of creation. And a further step is to understand How the Life Pulse allows you to unfold your DNA.

And in fact it also affects the DNA of your organization. Add to that the awareness of Theory U and magic happens!

As our dance through Theory U unfolds throughout this series of articles, I offer you the experience I’ve gained from several Guest House Facilitation workshops and trainings.

 

 

Dancing Theory U

If we combine this model with the life pulse, we can perceive that stasis moments will happen inside the U and outside the U. This seems to indicate that on the inside you have the connection deep within yourself and on the outside you have the possibility of establishing a deep interconnectedness with each other. Source is as much present on the inside as it is on the outside.

 

The graphic representation below gives an illustration of our dance through Theory U with awareness of the Life Pulse.

T-overview

 

  • The first breath: “Downloading” is happening and we discover the immense potential we have to dive deeply into this step – allowing this step to become “processing of Self”.
  • The second breath: “Seeing” unfolds and “curious asking” effortlessly brings us to the questions that truly matter.
  • The third breath: “Sensing” brings us to a deep immersion into extraordinary “experiencing”’.
  • The fourth breath: The “groan zone” is the next step we discover – it is our resistance to letting go just before we let go.
  • The fifth breath: “Presencing” happens in a huge inward movement, graciously expanding into “letting-come and “crystallising”.
  • The sixth breath: “Prototyping” becomes a “filling of Self”, an “embodying” of the future, as it wants to emerge, in the huge wave of possibilities.
  • The seventh breath: “Performing” is “bringing Self into the world” in further unfolding, ever continuing, waves of the Life Pulse.

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I hope you are curious!

 

All of this is covered extensively in each article of this series.

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

Guest House Facilitation is a way of being in which you tend to your State of Being through living Theory U; you discover unknown aspects of yourself. Your blind spot can be a potential gift, and it can sometimes be very messy –it might disturb and even destroy, and still it is an entry point into more of you.

 

Theory U is a framework, a method and a way of being through which processing more of “you” engages more of “you” into the world. I facilitate this fascinating and wonderful process in Guest House Facilitation through graciously bringing our attention to the cosmic principle of the Life Pulse.

 

Are you ready to embark on this journey with me?

 

The next article in the series brings more awareness to the First Breath in our process. We immediately jump into the unknown hidden territory of the Self.

Your comments and stories are very welcome. If you like this article, please share them through your favourite social media (there are links at the left side of this article). I am always very grateful for your thoughts and opinions.

 

With love and appreciation

 

Veerle

 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT:

This series of nine articles could only arise with the amazing assistance of all those magnificent people who attended a Guest House Facilitation workshop or training. They provided me with wonderful experiences that contribute to our dance through the U. One of the participants, Elaine McGoogan co-created in a delightful way through her excellent and fluid editing work!

 

GHF V outside 1VEERLE DE BOCK is a physician, healer, facilitator, trainer, coach and author of the trilogy, Becoming What is Changing. She spent nearly three decades of her life as a physician specializing in geriatric care, including a 21-year career as department head in an Antwerp regional hospital. In 2003, she began her study as an energetic healer, teacher, process facilitator and supervisor at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and since 2007 has been leading many other trainees to master these same skills. In 2010 she was trained in the practice of Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough, which she now incorporates into her workshops and training sessions. In 2012 she decided to devote her work exclusively to writing, facilitation and coaching. That same year, she devised a new integrative practice of facilitation she calls ‘Guest House Facilitation’, that helps teams learn how to listen and utilise both the inner and outer processes within their organisation, to see it as a dynamic and living organism, and to reconnect to its intrinsic purpose and intention. Her book, Becoming What is Changing: Exposition, is the first part of a trilogy aimed at managers, team leaders and responsible employees who wish to bring this kind of transformation into the workplace, so they can create an environment where people are happy, satisfied and continuously growing.

 

Contact Veerle about the book, or to discuss coaching/hosting for your organisation at:
http://www.chancestochange.com

http://twitter.com/VeerleDeBock

http://facebook.com/BecomingWhatIsChanging

 

Aspects of life

How Can You Create More ‘Market-ing’ by Doing Less?

How Can You Create More ‘Market-ing’ by Doing Less?

 

Dia1 Our answer is Guest House Facilitation! This new refreshing practice effortlessly gives rise to Market-ing with an abundance of offerings, tools and perspectives.

 

What is ‘Market-ing’?

When we were recently sitting with the question how to do marketing for Guest House Facilitation (GHF), something extraordinary happened! We suddenly realized that we were becoming what is changing, and marketing transformed into ‘Market-ing’.

We refocus marketing on one of its original definitions according to the dictionary: the act of buying or selling on a market. We shift marketing into ‘market-ing’.

We are each of us a market—everything is already present and nothing needs to be made different, changed or ameliorated. You are already perfect as you are. You only need to be reminded, need to be mirrored. Guest House Facilitation is your guide to your own market so that you can regain insight and access to your own abundance inside and outside.

This has some implications, which are astonishing.

  • Whether you are a participant or a host in GHF, you are all equal.
  • Your inner ‘Guest House’ is in fact a market where many different gifts are available.
  • The outer ‘Guest House’ has many tools; you decide which ones are useful for you in any moment.
  • There is no demand and no obligation in Guest House Facilitation; there is freedom to play with consciousness and energy.
  • You do not prepare Guest House Facilitation, you are doing less; you dance with what is in the moment now.
  • Nothing needs to be improved in you; you are perfect with your imperfections.
  • Guest House Facilitation is a navigation system towards abundance for everybody.

 

 

The metaphor of the resident, the reformer and the rebel

I use this metaphor to clarify the structure of GHF. This precious metaphor discerns different ways of being, and in truth we are each of us a combination of the three aspects. Depending on our circumstances, one of them will be more prominent. We need the different perspectives for our personal development.

Our resident resides in our inner box with fencings created by our beliefs, images and habitual ways of doing things. The resident will help us when the circumstances or events are overwhelming or confusing.

Our reformer continuously tries to improve our circumstances in the inner box.

Our rebel tries out new perspectives, new solutions for old problems. Our rebel leaves our inner boxes with the fencings made of our beliefs, images and patterns.

We now explain each role in the context of Guest House Facilitation.

 

1. The pioneers of GHF

The pioneers stand at the cradle of GHF. They are the rebels of our metaphor; they play with new consciousness. They are willing to jump into the unknown and be open for new perspectives, taking into account whatever is happening as contributions for this fascinating approach. They nourish and nurture the field of GHF, and they listen for new developments and insights.

As a rebel you hold space and facilitate a we, the people. You are ready to assist the group to grasp its potential, bring it into consciousness and act upon it. We, the people starts anywhere and continues everywhere.

The rebels come to the gatherings of hosts that are organized regularly in order to attend to this new emerging field of GHF.

How do the rebels present themselves in the market? They are not easily recognizable, they move and inspire other people, it is not about them, their names do not have to be known. It is their presence, the way they radiate, which makes the difference. The rebels are like Harmonizer Souls. Michael Newton, the regression hypnotherapist, learned a great deal about our souls through his groundbreaking research into the afterlife. He discerns a general category of Harmonizer Souls. He explains that incarnated Harmonizer Souls typically are souls who balance the energy of planetary events involving human relationships. They function on a larger scale in an attempt to diffuse negative energy.

 

2. The hosts of GHF

There are areas where we are the reformer, we are hosts in Guest Houses, and we try to hold space in order for the circumstances to ameliorate. The beauty is that we teach in order to be taught, we heal in order to be healed. Hosts are the reformers of our metaphor.

Hosts come to GHF trainings. They become part of a huge family of hosts that are spread over different countries. So far we have hosts in the US, Zimbabwe, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Bali, the UK, Austria, and Japan.

Hosts can hold workshops as Guest Houses and apply a beautiful variety of technologies and tools available through GHF.

In our market, the hosts are the market vendors who sell all the different items. They hold space for you to discover, explore, learn, and most of all play. ‘Market-ing’ unfolds through the hosts inventing and adding their own specific tools to this amazing creative mix of GHF.

Sometimes hosts get inspired and start to do their own thing with flavours of GHF. There are endless possibilities.

 

3. The residents in GHF

Sometimes we are residents, we are participants in Guest Houses and we explore the fencings of our inner boxes within the safe container of these Guest Houses.

Anyone can be a participant, and everybody is welcome. There are no specific requirements. We are all human beings, and this is the only requirement for attending in a Guest House workshop. We all are spiritual beings, and we all come to achieve our soul’s purpose, to have our personal growth.

One of the major principles is how all your inner guests are welcome in our settings. As in Rumi’s poem, this can be a sorrow, a despair, an anger, an unwanted guest—yet they are all welcome. There is no enemy to conquer, all of you is welcome. We acknowledge how this very fact enables you to uncover your unique essence and gifts. The group being of GHF has specific features to assist each individual participant.

The group being creates a container through which a sacred space unfolds where awareness gently invites and inspires residents to experience deeper levels of ‘self’.

You are exploring the market, you are ‘market-ing’. You are ‘market-ing’ in the sense that you tune in and find which trained hosts (reformers) will be the perfect mix for your specific field of exploration.

The outer ‘Guest House’ is the magic coming together of the right people in the right space and the right moment. It is the richness of the mirroring through relationships, the contributions each participant offers, and the listening back and forth. The multiplicity of senses is available as in a marketplace.

The practice of GHF offers an abundance of specific tools and technologies at your disposal, and as in a market place, you walk around, you try, you listen and you decide for yourself what works and what does not work.

 

 

Conclusion

 

We are all equal partners in the fascinating inner and outer Guest Houses of this world, whether we are in this moment a rebel, a reformer or a resident—a pioneer, a host or a participant.

There is a ‘Market-ing’, an ongoing nourishment and nurturing, an abundance of colours, tastes, and perspectives allowing us to dance within the richness and endless possibilities of human relationships and human processes.

And as our title promises, this occurs by ‘doing less’. The secret is the space for the ‘Market-ing’ held by the group being. In this space, new consciousness can thrive.

We no longer need to do Marketing in the known ways. Marketing becomes ‘market-ing’ through Guest House Facilitation. We achieve a holistic marketing as the marketing guru Philip Kotler describes. This type of marketing emphasizes how everything that happens matters. We add the effortlessness through the art of the relationships between the participants, hosts and pioneers. We introduce the inner Guest Houses as integral parts of the outer mix of tools and techniques. We invite everybody to own responsibility for whatever happens to you and around you.

You can explore Guest House Facilitation and create your own experience or come and play with us at one of our scheduled events.

If you have found this article useful, please share it and leave a comment below.

Veerle

July 12th, 2014

 

Veerle blog caminoVEERLE DE BOCK is a physician, healer, facilitator, trainer, coach and author of the trilogy, Becoming What is Changing. She spent nearly three decades of her life as a physician specializing in geriatric care, including a 21-year career as department head in an Antwerp regional hospital. In 2003, she began her study as an energetic healer, teacher, process facilitator and supervisor at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and since 2007 has been leading many other trainees to master these same skills. In 2010 she was trained in the practice of Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough, which she now incorporates into her workshops and training sessions. In 2012 she decided to devote her work exclusively to writing, facilitation and coaching. That same year, she devised a new integrative practice of facilitation she calls ‘Guest House Facilitation’, that helps teams learn how to listen and utilise both the inner and outer processes within their organisation, to see it as a dynamic and living organism, and to reconnect to its intrinsic purpose and intention. Her book, Becoming What is Changing: Exposition, is the first part of a trilogy aimed at managers, team leaders and responsible employees who wish to bring this kind of transformation into the workplace, so they can create an environment where people are happy, satisfied and continuously growing.

 

Contact Veerle about the book, or to discuss coaching/facilitation for your organisation at:
http://www.chancestochange.com

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Aspects of life

How the Life pulse allows you to unfold your DNA

How the Life pulse allows you to unfold your DNA

The creation of a more beautiful world requires the blossoming of our DNA. A key is awareness of the alternating life pulses of our soul and body-mind.

DNAHow can you consciously unfold your DNA?
We start with awareness of the life pulse and its sequences of expansion, stasis and contraction. We reach far out into expansion and connect with the outside world, ending in a moment of stasis, shifting into contraction, where we connect with self, arrive deep into the cells, and reach another moment of stasis, preparing us for the next outgoing movement of expansion.
During each sequence, we engage with our DNA in an attempt to reach our potential.

In this article we delve deeper into the life pulses of our soul and body-mind. The life pulse is this fascinating cosmic principle that allows creation to take place, and creation is tightly connected with our DNA.
Do you know that possibly 90% of your DNA, at this moment while you are reading, is asleep?

Here are some facts:
• Our soul has its own life pulse.
• Our body-mind thrives in waves of expansion.
• Our soul and body-mind engage through the life pulse.
• The life pulse assists the unfolding of our DNA.
• Our DNA offers us access to our potential.

The life pulse of our soul
Our incarnation is one big contraction. We gather essence in a moment of stasis, before our incarnation. Then our soul comes into this human realm, and this is a big contraction in terms of the life pulse. We sink deep into the density of matter, which is a huge “going inside” for the soul, a retraction, a contraction. The soul perceives the incarnation as a separation from its Source. At the end of our incarnation, there is a moment of stasis. This is our dying process, and after our physical death our soul moves into expansion and connection with our spiritual family¬¬—we explore all our challenges and our successes. The research through Life Between Lives Hypnotherapy offers a great deal of insight into the understanding of our soul’s journey.
We can discern many other life pulses. During the day your soul moves into contraction and during the night into expansion, because the soul goes out and visits your spiritual family. Meditation and introspection are also waves of expansion for the soul.

The life pulse of our body-mind
Our body-mind has many different life pulses. Our breathing is a beautiful example, a moment of stillness, breathing out and expanding, another moment of stillness, breathing in and contracting, and again a moment of stillness for the preparation of the next wave. Can you feel how at the end of your expiration there is fullness, a connectedness with all living beings and at the end of the inspiration, there is a going deeply inside, a connection with your self?
The same sequences apply to our magnificent circulation system with our blood flow and heart pulse.
In an expansion we are created, a sperm cell engages with an egg. Our whole body-mind expands and contracts in a panoply of life pulses in many different ways.

The alternating life pulses of soul and body-mind
In a previous article we gained insight into the amazing interaction between our soul and body-mind. Let us come back to the different scenarios through which our soul and body-mind interact. If we allow those different scenarios to happen at the same time, we begin to see what the drawing at the beginning of this article shows.
Our soul and body-mind both have a life pulse. They might not interact at all or already take care of each other at a distance.
When there is the intertwining of body-mind and soul, the life pulses of both alternate. When the body-mind is in expansion, the soul is in contraction, and vice versa. When soul and body-mind are completely aligned, they move through the same life pulse, they are both expanding and contracting at the same time.
The moments of stasis are moments when both meet. Deeply breathing in and out produces moments of stasis, a possible connection between your body-mind and soul. This happens at the end of the contraction, the inspiration, and at the end of the expansion, the expiration.

How the life pulse assists the unfolding of our DNA
The visual representation of these alternating waves reveals the image of our DNA.
Let us take a closer look at our DNA. Our DNA is hidden deep inside the nucleus of each of our human cells. Our DNA has the form of a helix. The helix itself is formed through a backbone of sugar and phosphate and branches that are formed by nucleotide bases. These nucleotide bases are our actual genetic material, our genes, our potential in physical manifestation for this lifetime. Our genes produce all the proteins we need as building blocks for almost any activity and any scenario we want to create in the physical reality. It is the potential for us to grow, to expand, and to see. In our cells lies the potential that we need to create the more beautiful world our heart knows is possible.
A protein coat protects the helix and also blocks the expression of our potential.
Can you imagine all these secret structures that each of our more then 50 trillion cells is holding?

The backbone of sugar and phosphate visually looks like the life pulse. The backbone is what keeps the structure and creates the space for the DNA to unfold. The life pulse is the structure, the cosmic principle that creates the space for us to create our lives, to allow engagement between the fields of our soul and body-mind.
And in this movement, the unfolding of our DNA and the engagement of more of our potential becomes a reality.
Connect deep within your cells with your DNA at the end of a contraction and become who you are, not who you wish to be, in the consecutive waves of expansion.
Through our DNA we access the essence of the Universal soup. On the quantum level our DNA vibrates. This offers us continuous essence for the next wave of expansion. We know that the Zero Point field or Universal soup of energy is accessible externally in the Universe and internally deep inside each of our cells.
How is our DNA connected to our shadow?

Releasing our shadow
Our shadow is our potential, which we did not yet discover or which we decoded in a defensive way. We use our DNA to recreate our childhood stories in this moment now. Those stories happened to us and around us and are unique to each of us. Siblings store different stories of the same situation.
The stories, which we attract from the Quantum hologram, are those that resonate with our soul’s purpose. The stories engage certain sequences of our DNA in order to create, in the physical world, what our stories believe is true.
Each new wave of expansion offers us a new healing cycle, an opportunity to make another choice. In the expansion we engage with the outside world.
Our DNA is switched off or on through the inactivation or activation of the protein coat, which protects our DNA. This activation or inactivation happens in reaction to information reaching us from the outside world and often engages with our old stored stories.

 

Conclusion

Our DNA holds our potential on many different levels and dimensions—more than most of us imagine being true.

Through awareness of the life pulse, you affect the interaction between your body-mind and your soul, you affect the unfolding of your DNA, and you affect your life. The more we are able to really align the life pulses of our soul and body-mind, the more joy and pleasure unfold.

When we move out into expansion, we engage, we meet, and we explore the outside world. With the assistance of our soul, we are able to reach far out and to deeply connect with all living beings. From this connection, a moment of stasis naturally happens, and we move back inside. Our contraction starts and we move with what we learned back through all the levels of our energy field into our cells to connect with our DNA for another wave of expansion.

In Guest House Facilitation we explore these interactions with regard to the group being of organizations and the possibilities to create a new future that wants to emerge.

I look forward to the sparks of essence you feel you want to share in the comment box.
Veerle

 

GHF V outside 1VEERLE DE BOCK is a physician, healer, facilitator, trainer, coach and author of the trilogy, Becoming What is Changing. She spent nearly three decades of her life as a physician specializing in geriatric care, including a 21-year career as department head in an Antwerp regional hospital. In 2003, she began her study as an energetic healer, teacher, process facilitator and supervisor at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and since 2007 has been leading many other trainees to master these same skills. In 2010 she was trained in the practice of Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough, which she now incorporates into her workshops and training sessions. In 2012 she decided to devote her work exclusively to writing, facilitation and coaching. That same year, she devised a new integrative practice of facilitation she calls ‘Guest House Facilitation’, that helps teams learn how to listen and utilise both the inner and outer processes within their organisation, to see it as a dynamic and living organism, and to reconnect to its intrinsic purpose and intention. Her book, Becoming What is Changing: Exposition, is the first part of a trilogy aimed at managers, team leaders and responsible employees who wish to bring this kind of transformation into the workplace, so they can create an environment where people are happy, satisfied and continuously growing.

 

Contact Veerle about the book, or to discuss coaching/facilitation for your organisation at:
http://www.chancestochange.com

http://twitter.com/VeerleDeBock

http://facebook.com/BecomingWhatIsChanging

 

 

Aspects of life

How ‘Guest House Facilitation’ Affects Your Organization

How ‘Guest House Facilitation’ Affects Your Organization

GHF blogOur organizations are living systems composed and affected by each member. This ‘group being’ encompasses the magic of a future that wants to emerge.

 

How does it feel to consider the possibility of having an impact on your organization, no matter which role you occupy in that organization?

We all matter in this human realm. The key invitation is to give each of us a voice, to listen to each of us, even to the whispers.

Imagine how acknowledging a ‘being’ of a group, an organization or a family would be able to make a huge difference in that group, that organization or that family.

This article offers you a definition of the ‘group being’ and insight into the magic of ’Guest House Facilitation’. ‘Guest House Facilitation’ is an assembly of attitudes and technologies that enable a safe space for this ‘group being’ to connect with its higher potential.

 

What is a ‘group being’?

Each gathering of two or more people creates a ‘group being’. This ‘group being’ is composed of the different members and is at the same time more than the members. Whatever is present consciously and unconsciously affects this ‘group being’. The awareness of this ‘group being’ can be very powerful. In order to engage with this ‘being’ it is important to create a safe container.

 

The magic of ‘Guest House Facilitation’

‘Guest House Facilitation’ creates a safe container and manifests into the human realm from a self-organizing field in the Universe. This field holds the intelligence that we need to create a more beautiful and healthy world. The name ‘Guest House’ refers to Rumi’s poem. Rumi’ invites us in his famous poem ‘The Guest House’ to welcome and embrace all our inner guests, even if they are unexpected and sweep our house out.

‘Guest House Facilitation’ brings our awareness to the existence of a ‘group being’, and we welcome all that is present ‘now’ in this group body. The group body itself in ‘Guest House Facilitation’ calls forth the emergent ‘form and flow’ of its unique wisdom and leadership.

We achieve this through applying an unlimited set of mediation and conversation techniques applicable to a variety of situations. In ‘Guest House Facilitation’ you not only learn the techniques, you also understand how the components of each technique work in effecting healing, creativity and change.

The ‘group being’ itself invites us to enhance self-awareness of our individual contributions and talents.  Each transformational attitude or technology creates space for skills that can enable or strengthen this specific attitude or technology.

 

Let us take a closer look at one or our attitudes: this fascinating triad of ‘Witness, Ask and Experience’ and how this affects our ‘group being’ and each individual member. We extensively covered this triad in several previous articles on this blog. Today we explore this magnificent triad through the eyes of ‘Guest House Facilitation’. We combine the different aspects of our triad with steps of the Theory U model part of the amazing organizational research of Otto Scharmer.

  • Asking, opening our mind
  • Experiencing, opening our heart
  • Witnessing, opening our will

 

Asking: Open our mind

We start opening our mind, recognize our taken-for-granted assumptions and begin to hear and see things that were not evident before. Our mind is related in this context with our reason, with the whole realm of our concepts, ideas and beliefs of how the world makes sense to us. Most of these concepts, ideas and beliefs are cultural and social and related to the Story of Separation of our current world. This is a term the inspirational author Charles Eisenstein uses in his work.

The aspect ‘asking’ of our fascinating triad is literally giving the energy field around our head more space. We wonder without judgment. We open up for the moment  now and we do not engage in what we already know, through our old stories. We are curious and open to the unknown.

We facilitate our inner guests, whatever is present for us is welcome. We meet the ‘being’ of our organization with an open mind, we have no judgments, we gently and softly receive the ‘being’ and ceaselessly ask the same question: “What is here now?”

We observe the ‘group being’, and we do not yet experience ourselves as part of this ‘group being’.

 

Experiencing: Open our heart

The second step is opening our heart to feel beyond the mind, achieving a deeper level of attention. We occupy our whole body in order to experience. We open our heart and automatically we come home into ourselves. Our energy field becomes stronger and more grounded.

We can make sense on a deep level. We experience in our physical body our sense of self. We perceive different emotions and feelings. We literally apply this ‘Guest House’ attitude. We might feel vulnerable.

The pitfall is that we easily will try to figure out or analyse what is happening. We keep our mind open though and only ask ourselves ‘What is here now?’ We stay present in the now.

‘Guest House Facilitation’ extends this opening of our heart to the ‘group being’. When we are home within ourselves, we see from the inside and we are part of the ‘group being’. A profound shift happens in our awareness, and we experience the ‘being’ through our physical body. This can be awkward and strange. We might feel overwhelmed and experience headaches, nausea and dizziness as old stories surface through this ‘group being’. Those physical symptoms relate to old stories referring to how we have always done things in our organization or family. They refer to our collectively held stories of Separation.

 

Witnessing: Open our will

Finally we are summoned to open our will, the ability to unlock our deepest feelings of commitment. Witnessing stretches the back of our energy field, we observe without doing. We trust what is happening to be useful and part of a bigger, much bigger, reality that we cannot understand in this moment. We allow the unfolding to take place. We keep checking if our heart is still open and if our mind is open.

This often brings us to an uneasy space. We want to do something, escape this uneasiness, this whole of experiencing and being with what is. It is an unusual space to reside in for us. When we move into action, we lose our contact with the ‘group being’. When we achieve at this moment the patience to wait and to not do, then we are in touch with this fascinating ‘being’ and we arrive at a state of ‘presencing’.

 

Presencing…

A great deal of knowledge and insight, thinking and intuition coalesces in the catalyst of Presencing. The definition is to sense, to tune in and to act from your highest future potential. You arrived at the bottom of the U. You are aware of habitual patterns from the past that are no longer constructive, and you learn from the future as it emerges.

The magic of ‘presence’ is using whatever is popping up, happening inside and outside, in the moment as potential. It is the flexibility to use whatever is arising and letting go of a pre-set structure. We move from the inner area to the outer area, and back—everybody is a guest in our house. Our enemy is our guest as well. We listen to all the voices, also the whispers. We no longer see problems, only opportunities. We are the ‘group being’ and the ‘group being’ is us.

‘Presencing’ is applying this wonderful triad of ‘witnessing, asking and experiencing’—opening our mind, our heart and our will.

 

 

Conclusion

You received a glimpse of the huge territory of ‘Guest House Facilitation’. ‘Guest House Facilitation’ incorporates this fascinating triad of ‘witnessing, asking and experiencing’ as well as the different steps of the Theory U model of Otto Scharmer.

‘Guest House Facilitation’ assists the identification of the next steps in individual and group development, what kind of continuing support would serve you and where you can get it.

Meanwhile, you can apply this fascinating attitude in your daily life. This stepwise approach leads us from the Story of Separation into the acknowledgment of a ‘group being’ in our families, groups and organizations.

The ‘group being’ enables us to hear our voice and value our essence and the unique contribution we make. It also enables us to hear the other voices and value their essence and their unique contribution.

Recognizing the ‘being’ of our groups allows environments that lead to increased transparency, trust, pleasure and creativity.

You can read more on the website chancestochange. You are welcome to connect with us, leave a message, come and co-create with us on one of the trainings or workshops.

 

Veerle

March, 10th 2014

 

Veerle de BockVEERLE DE BOCK is a physician, healer, facilitator, trainer, coach and author of the trilogy, Becoming What is Changing. She spent nearly three decades of her life as a physician specializing in geriatric care, including a 21-year career as department head in an Antwerp regional hospital. In 2003, she began her study as an energetic healer, teacher, process facilitator and supervisor at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and since 2007 has been leading many other trainees to master these same skills. In 2010 she was trained in the practice of Dynamic Facilitation by Jim Rough, which she now incorporates into her workshops and training sessions. In 2012 she decided to devote her work exclusively to writing, facilitation and coaching. That same year, she devised a new integrative practice of facilitation she calls ‘Guest House Facilitation’, that helps teams learn how to listen and utilise both the inner and outer processes within their organisation, to see it as a dynamic and living organism, and to reconnect to its intrinsic purpose and intention. Her book, Becoming What is Changing: Exposition, is the first part of a trilogy aimed at managers, team leaders and responsible employees who wish to bring this kind of transformation into the workplace, so they can create an environment where people are happy, satisfied and continuously growing.

 

Contact Veerle about the book, or to discuss coaching/facilitation for your organisation at:
http://www.chancestochange.com

http://twitter.com/VeerleDeBock

http://facebook.com/BecomingWhatIsChanging