Concepts

THE CONCEPT | Curious Compassion leads us on and on and on without end, for there is no knowing to intervene. No conclusion to be made. Without presumptions and assumptions, our inquiry takes us forever into more questions about what is? but how? and then?

THE STORY | Lightworkers, spiritual healers and the like are more comfortable with oppositions of health and lack or power and exploitation. Generally speaking, these are the kind of oppositions that create balance. For those who see the world at war or at odds, this type of balancing act is an ongoing necessity. It partakes of all our time and energy – at work, in relationship, for health, etc. There is almost no portion of ourselves that does not require constant maintenance within this balancing act, and no sense of ourselves that can exist or grow or learn without encountering some version of its brutality.

Nothing comes from nothing. All things must pay for their existence with the death of another. In order for one door to open another must close. These are all sentiments of the give-and-take cosmology of opposition and balance. But it is not the only perspective. There are those who function differently, according to curious compassion which tells us to be present without the need to judge or label what is going on as good or bad or otherwise. There are those of us for whom life is an ongoing exploration experience or experiment that invites us to see-feel-wonder-allow any moment as it is.

THE CONCEPT | Intuitive Activism is an extension of the idea of doing without doing. One simply accepts that if it is to be done, it will form part of what one is being driven to do, or be, in this moment as it comes to pass, without ever truly needing to formulate a plan ahead of time. Except, of course, if formulating a plan is what one is being driven to do in this moment.

THE STORY | Feminists and change agents are among those who might identify as activists who have a clear picture of what they do not want, if not a plan for what they prefer. The Green Society initiators, Spiritual Entrepreneurs, and Evolutionary Consciousness Leaders, for example, hold clear intentions for their actions and the planet and have concrete plans for the world. There are very few organisations or projects whose manifesto does not pave the way toward a specific outcome, and even fewer whose vision and mission statement isn’t convinced it knows best. That’s where intuitive activism is very different to advocacy activism.

Advocacy activism, like the Slow Movement, says we need more of one thing and less of another. It espouses a particular worldview and establishes itself as an expert on neutral ground about what will work for all of us, even going so far as suggesting that we all share the same needs.

Intuitive activism, however, is more of a surrender process. It does not claim to know anything. In fact, it is more inclined to assume actions free from attachment to outcome. There is an element of trust around what needs to be done. One trusts that our instructions in this moment will guide us and that that will be enough. One trusts that if there is a need, it will be made clear in the making of this moment and not in the taking of control over anything or anyone.

THE CONCEPT | When we work with people as they are for their own purposes, we accept our role as leader without ever making anyone our follower. No like minds required. From this place of inclusion, we simply play our part and accept all other versions of the story about what’s going on without the need to qualify any absolute truth on where we stand, what we need, or what it is we’re really doing.

THE STORY |  Within its organisational theory, “transformational leadership is defined as a leadership approach that causes change in individuals and social systems. In its ideal form, it creates valuable and positive change in the followers with the end goal of developing followers into leaders” (Juneja, MSG). Obviously, transformational and inclusive leadership are very different practices.

In order to inspire people to change themselves and their world, transformational leaders must hold particular ideals as they impose the value of their ends upon those deemed unchanged. Whereas, inclusive leadership has no designs on reality that are not already reflected in an individual’s own telling.

THE CONCEPT | Navigating all of our now moments without borders or boundaries, the business of simply being extends to wherever we are and whatever we appear to be doing including the practice of decision making. Practicalities cannot be separated out from intuition, and the interests we consider reflect this. What becomes relevant to what’s going on or appears to be going on in any given moment, is broader than any horizon and more cryptic-complex than

THE STORY | Holistic

THE CONCEPT | When we work with people as they are for their own purposes, we accept our role as leader without ever making anyone our follower. No like minds required. From this place of inclusion, we simply play our part and accept all other versions of the story about what’s going on without the need to qualify any absolute truth on where we stand, what we need, or what it is we’re really doing.

THE STORY | Cross-cultural approaches to therapy

THE CONCEPT | When we work with people as they are for their own purposes, we accept our role as leader without ever making anyone our follower. No like minds required. From this place of inclusion, we simply play our part and accept all other versions of the story about what’s going on without the need to qualify any absolute truth on where we stand, what we need, or what it is we’re really doing.

THE STORY | Self-help work

THE CONCEPT | When we work with people as they are for their own purposes, we accept our role as leader without ever making anyone our follower. No like minds required. From this place of inclusion, we simply play our part and accept all other versions of the story about what’s going on without the need to qualify any absolute truth on where we stand, what we need, or what it is we’re really doing.

THE STORY | Research methodology

THE CONCEPT | When we work with people as they are for their own purposes, we accept our role as leader without ever making anyone our follower. No like minds required. From this place of inclusion, we simply play our part and accept all other versions of the story about what’s going on without the need to qualify any absolute truth on where we stand, what we need, or what it is we’re really doing.

THE STORY | Zero sum explanations

THE CONCEPT | When we work with people as they are for their own purposes, we accept our role as leader without ever making anyone our follower. No like minds required. From this place of inclusion, we simply play our part and accept all other versions of the story about what’s going on without the need to qualify any absolute truth on where we stand, what we need, or what it is we’re really doing.

THE STORY | Esoteric, eclectic or