The Transition Town movement is an example of bottom-up empowerment, local community organization for global climate change. Political action and emotional growth and support are combined with conflict resolution skill training, so that Head, Heart, and Hands are all enlisted in common cause. Listening/Focusing Communities are one model of peer support that could be incorporated into Transition Towns.
Creativity comes from inside, from articulation of The Creative Edge, the "something-more-than-words" experienced as intuitions, gut instincts, the vague, blurry "feel" of "the whole thing." Creative Edge Listening and Creative Edge Focusing are self-help skills that facilitate exploration of the "not-yet-known. Applications at home and work, alone, for interpersonal conflict and for creative problem solving in organizations.
The Creative Edge Organization model from Creative Edge Focusing (TM) includes the Interpersonal Focusing method, often with a Third Person Listening Facilitator, for the resolution of interpersonal conflicts. Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening skills are used, either in a separate session or right during a Collaboration Edge Decision Making Meeting. How do you teach Interpersonal Focusing in a business or organization, especially if there are not evident conflicts present? Free download of Interpersonal Focusing Chapter, as well as creative ideas for teaching.
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Intuitive Focusing can help us go from numbness, overwhelm, confusion to an understanding of the "pile-ups" of negative situations and "spirals" of negative thinking causing these emotional states. Intuitive Focusing allows release from stress and clear paths to action.
Creative Edge Focusing teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening which can be applied at home and at work to increase creativity, decrease stress, resolve conflict, and facilitate innovative problem solving. Here we learn a specific exercise for reducing the stress left from interpersonal situations called "Getting A Felt Sense," accessing right-brain, intuitive knowledge.
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