{"id":419,"date":"2009-01-30T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=419"},"modified":"2009-01-30T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T16:22:42","slug":"focusing-and-business-building-community-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/focusing-and-business-building-community-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"FOCUSING AND BUSINESS: BUILDING COMMUNITY AT WORK"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In <\/strong>Creative Edge Organizations<\/strong><\/a>, everyone learns <\/strong>Intuitive Focusing<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0( PDF: Focusing Intuitivo: Destreza Basica<\/a><\/strong>) to access the intuitive, right-brain Creative Edge of their thinking and problem solving, and everyone learns <\/strong>Focused Listening<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0( PDF: Destreza Basica: Escucha Focalizada<\/a><\/strong>)to help others articulate from the Creative Edge and to hear deeply the views of another instead of arguing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The exchange of Listening\/Focusing Partnership turns leads, not only to creative, innovative problem solving, but also to feelings of “buy in,” “loyalty,” and “collegiality.” The workplace becomes a community,\u00a0 encouraging diversity and creativity rather than competition and backbiting.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Here is part of my recent article “Creative Edge Organizations: Businesses and Organizations As A ‘Kind’ Of Focusing Community<\/a>“:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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“— Businesses and Organizations ARE Communities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Doing my own Thinking At The Edge (TAE)<\/a> process, I realized that businesses and organizations ARE communities. By their nature, coworkers are \u201ctrapped\u201d in a face-to-face, interdependent situation which they cannot leave. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Some absolute essentials for workers: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2022 learning to work out their interpersonal conflicts<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 having a successful model for making and implementing group decisions<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 having a model for creative, innovative thinking and problem solving and for<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>communication between themselves and their clients. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 For co-workers: the ability to work in teams, tolerate their diversity, and make<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>the most of their \u201cdiffering gifts.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Businesses cannot afford the constant turnover and need for retraining that comes from irresolvable conflicts.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>The model I developed for Focusing Communities, articulated in the Focusing in Community <\/em>manual (1981, 2007), included all of these things: not just Focusing Alone for creative problem solving, but also Focusing Partnerships in the context of Focusing Groups or Teams, Interpersonal Focusing for resolving conflicts, and Collaborative Focusing-Oriented Decision Making for task-oriented groups. Here was a \u201cpackage\u201d of skills and methods that could be brought into businesses and organizations. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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At about this time, I gathered up some books at a kiosk at the Northwest Regional Airport near Bentonville, Arkansas — home of mega-business giant WalMart. Everyone who is a vendor for WalMart passes through that airport, so it seemed to me that the<\/span> books sold there would be cutting edge —”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Read the entire article <\/strong>“Creative Edge Organizations: Businesses and Organizations As A ‘Kind’ Of Focusing Community<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in the 30th Anniversary Tribute Focusing Folio online\u00a0at The Focusing Institute.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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CREATIVE EDGE FOCUSING(tm): \u00a0SELF-HELP SKILLS FOR HOME AND WORK<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Free Downloads:<\/strong><\/div>\n
Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

Complete Focusing Instructions Manual (17 pages)<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAjas\u201d Instantaneos Mini-Manual<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Creative Edge Focusing (<\/strong>www.cefocusing.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a> )<\/strong> teaches two basic self-help skills, Intuitive Focusing<\/span><\/a> and Focused Listening<\/span><\/a>, which can be applied at home and at work through The Creative Edge Focusing Pyramid<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based upon Gendlin\u2019s Experiential Focusing (<\/strong>www.focusing.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a> )\u00a0and Rogers\u2019 Empathic Listening,<\/strong> our website is packed with Free Resources and instructions in these basic self-help skills. Learn\u00a0how to build Support Groups<\/span><\/a>, Conscious Relationships<\/span><\/a>, and Creative Edge Organizations <\/span><\/a>based upon these basic skills of emotional intelligence.<\/p>\n

You can try out <\/strong>\u201cFocusing: Find Out What Is Bothering You.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to subscribe to\u00a0Creative Edge Focusing(TM)\u2019s \u00a0Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d e-newsletter and get the latest exercises first!!!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Today\u2019s blog is part of the year-long e-course offered through the Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d e-newsletter.<\/p>\n

Click here for a free Intuitive Focusing Mini-Course<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0See\u00a0Core Concept: Conflict Resolution<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to find a complete mini-course on Interpersonal Focusing and Conflict Resolution, including Rosenberg\u2019s Non-Violent Communication, Blanchard\u2019s \u201cOne Minute Apology,\u201d Patricia Evan\u2019s books on Verbally Abuse and Controlling Relationships, McMahon\u2019s Beyond The Myth Of Dominance, <\/em>and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

See Core Concept: Intimate Relationship<\/span><\/a> to find a complete mini-course on increasing intimacy and sexuality, including the \u201cSharing Your Day\u201d exercise, Listening\/Focusing Partnerships for The Way of Relationship, untangling and equalizing desire, tantric sexuality, and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Download complete Instant \u201cAhah!\u201d Mini-Manual, in <\/strong>English<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and <\/strong>Spanish<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, from CEF Website, or download from links at top of this blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find links to <\/strong>free articles, personality tests, multi-media\u00a0Self-Help training, Classes and workshops<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Kathy McGuire<\/span><\/a>, Director<\/p>\n

Creative Edge Focusing (TM)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

www.cefocusing.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Creative Edge Organizations encourage creative, innovative problem solving from each individual’s fresh, intuitive, right-brain thinking by teaching Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening as basic skills of “emotional and social intelligence.” The exchange of Focusing\/Listening turns builds feelings of “buy in” and “community” while encouraging innovation, creativity, and diversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6,45,15],"tags":[103,415,740,741,293,403,86,749,593,89,160,744,206,560,745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}