Author: Jan Höglund
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Carol Sanford on Indirect Work
Carol Sanford writes in Indirect Work: A Regenerative Change Theory for Businesses, Communities, Institutions and Humans that her words are often misinterpreted as direct instruction. People want something they can do, something they can apply directly. This means that what she is describing is downgraded to tactics rather than as an invitation to go deeper.…
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Amy Mindell on Metaskills
Amy Mindell explores the ways therapists express their attitudes and beliefs about life in her book Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy. These attitutes permeate and shape the therapist’s techniques. The therapist’s values are expressed in the interactions with the client. Amy Mindell has seen many therapists “in action”, how their theoretical ideas and techniques…
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Richard Tarnas on listening to the voice of nature
The following is from a session in the Mothership Earth Summit 2023 with Richard Tarnas on March 20, 2023. Richard says we seem to be living at the end of an era. He sees a striking resemblance between fundamental collective transformation and what takes place in individual initiatory rites of passage. Richard Tarnas talks about…
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Doing little things with great love
I started searching for life-giving ways of working in 2012. I think Daniel Wahl and Satish Kumar capture the essence of it in their conversation on Feb 1, 2023. It’s about doing little things with great love. The following statement by Daniel particularly caught my attention: 41:16 >>Daniel Wahl: The old medieval guilds … have…
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Iain McGilchrist on perception of value
Iain McGilchrist and Alex Gomez-Marin explores Iain’s latest book The Matter with Things in a series of dialogues. In Episode 26: Value, Alex asks the following question, which I would have liked to ask Iain myself. (The question and answer are edited for brevity and clarity. My emphasis in italics.) 27:15 >>Alex Gomex-Marin: You write…
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Iain McGilchrist on Presence vs. Re-presentation
Iain McGilchrist writes in The Matter with Things that we no longer live in the presence of the world, but in a re-presentation of it.1 He finds it fascinating that we don’t have a verb to describe the experience of the encounter with reality.2 To ‘presence‘ is not the same thing as to ‘be present’,…
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Poem: I need a timeout
Live NOW! Don’t postpone it to later. I need a timeout from all left brain stuff. It’s all arbitrary. There’s no grounding except in ideas and constructions. It’s all words. Not even an un-word will help.
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My view on management dashboards
I have encountered many different kinds of management dashboards over the years. I’ve been there, I’ve done that! Let me share a story of what happened when one of my managers left the company. It turned out that he had protected his people. When my manager had left I learned that his manager wanted to…
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What is my meaning?
I just finished re-reading Freedom to Live by Robert S. Hartman. Hartman challenges the reader with questions for reflection on the meaning of one’s life and work. So, what am I here for in the world? I wrote in my 10 year summary that: My focus was initially on finding systemic answers…, but I ended…
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Iain McGilchrist on Value & Purpose
The following is from Iain McGilchrist’s lecture for The Weekend University on September 23, 2022. McGilchrist argues that value and purpose are constitutive of reality, and that reason and evidence strongly support such a conclusion. My emphasis is in italics. 2:15 >>Iain McGilchrist: I believe consciousness is first irreducible, and second, best thought of as…