A winning curriculum for career starters and future leaders (Same difference) A portfolio piece for success by Matthew Hill #skills #learning #leadership #knowledge #eduction #trainer #facilitator #matthew #hill #culture #diversity #youth The 23 – 25 year olds today, are going … Continue reading
Are we experiencing a cultural shift in the presence and significance of death in our consciousness, society, and our everyday lives? An opinion piece by Matthew Hill #culture #life #appreciation #mourning #death #ritual #belief #optimism #Covid Moment The fact that … Continue reading
A piece about your audience – And, no, they are not actively listening to you, most of the time. #listening #active #empathic #audience #presentation #publicspeaking #culture #diversity #communication #education #training #teaching #coaching #matthew #hill Presenting and storytelling represent the essentials … Continue reading
#intercultural #events #SIETAR #IRC #IBI #brinkmann #olivar #davey #weinberger #bagna Some not to be missed events coming up for March and April 2021… 11th March 2021 Anne Katrina Davey of Cultural Confidence invites you to, Connecting With Our Higher Purpose: A … Continue reading
Pamela Strawgate invited Dr Milton J. Bennett to present the other day. SIETAR France’s Grant Douglas hosted.
For those of you cruelly denied the live experience by the limited Zoom participant restrictions, here is a chance to catch up with what the wise man said. If you are in a rush, his presentation is from minute 11 to minute 55. If not there is the full 104 minutes.
For those mere mortals who may find his excellent presentation a bit of an intellectual or lexical stretch, here are some key markers to look out for along the way…
Time presents us with approaching possibilities.
Our choice as to what to pay attention to is pre-programmed and a function of our experience. In manifests in our preferences, predilections and triggers.
We create our future by what we pay attention to and the choices we make.
We can learn to alter what we pay attention to and pay attention to something else.
MB is interested in how we construct meaning and take action in families and organisations
Today’s challenge is how do we coordinate and communicate across the political divide?
PAST – MB would go back and refine what we looked at. Too much national stuff, less domestic and ethnic focus.
Criticism of the IC field have been basic and ill informed. They have taken group generalisations and applied them to individuals to produce unattractive stereotypes.
The start in this field pushed nation based essentialism with countries as monoliths.
Big business has paid our fees and benefited from an improvement in intercultural sensitivity.
On top of IC, DEI brings out our common uniqueness as individuals and groups.
Our lack of domestic focus has meant we have missed the chance to slow the Defence phase inside countries.
MB talks of Julian Jaynes and his read on Humans. We developed language 3000 years ago to cope with proximity to “other” humans. This was part of our Self Reflexive Consciousness. Part of this is seeing ourselves at the object. This became useful when dealing with other people. Now Zoom, and social media are taking us to the next level of crowd overload. MB asks, do we need a systems reboot? Do we need to reorganise our reality?
Humans are not the passive victim of circumstance here. We created all of this ourselves but have yet to deal with the consequences. We have been kept glued by he lure of the familiar.
Humans miss God, We are begging to be led and shown the path. The Divine is easier than owning our own volition. E.g. there is a benefit to being lower down the hierarchy.
In the DMIS, MB has added some annotation. We move from the 2 Ds – Fear of others to a critique of Minimisation – A failure or tolerance. This is being manipulated by rhetoric, and acts of bigotry seem to land so well with so many. Many people are stuck in an unstable state and may easily slide backwards.
Quote from Knefelkamp – “The search for truth, obscures what ought to be the foundation of ETHICAL CHOICE and understanding and respect for the views of people you disagree with, accompanied by a consensus commitment to the choice you make in defence of those viable alternatives.
MB – There are viable alternatives to the way we see as being OUR way.
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