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S04E06 Turn a Sacred Wound Into a Sacred Scar
💡 SPOTLIGHTED BOOK : Wild Mind by Bill Plotkin
📚 GUEST READER : Andrei Stoicescu
💬 CONVERATION HIGHLIGHTS:
- growing from a place of unknowing
- not knowing where/when you will learn - it can happen at any time
- we often forget that we are a part of nature
- eco-psychology lens
- we live in an ecosystem and don't recognize our interdependence
- eco-centric -- start from the place of recognizing the nature and niche around us
- you can work with metaphor without understanding it
- you can live beyond knowledge and understanding
- you don't know what "cold" is before you experience it
- we communicate through our energy, not just our words
- Four facets of the self - Interpersonal View of the Self
- Feeling Things
- Using your Senses
- Using our Intellect
- Using our Imagination
- What happens if these facets are mature/immature?
- Many of us are stuck in perpetual adolescence
- We often develop our facets based on what the world needs of us at the time
- Knowing your mature facet, and look toward the other facets to help you grow
- Miscommunication can occur when our strong facets collide with other facets
- What happens on your team when it's dominated by certain archetypes/facets?
- Dysfunction on teams occurs when we don't understand ourselves more deeply, and those of our colleagues
- Meet yourself from the different facets and treat yourself with compassion
- Shifting our strategies that worked in childhood that don't work as adults
- Improve your leadership not through tactical ways, but through self-exploration
- Beginner's mind and humility in leadership
- Look for the patterns in your life
- Seeing the gift in the other facets of of self
- All of us have a "wounded self" - can we have compassion for our self and that of others
- Turn a sacred wound into a sacred scar
- Break the promises you made to yourself when you were young
- When we choose not to do the work, we pay in non-financial ways, so why not pay someone to help you do the work.
📚 OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED:
- Soul Craft, also by Bill Plotkin
ℹ GUEST BIO AND LINKS:
Born in an industrial town of a soon to come out of communism Romania, I fell in love with books and stories in primary school. I have loved music and singing for as long as I can remember and I dabbled with acting until I went to university. I left Architecture after 4 years of studies (out of 6) and quit working in Architecture and Design (after 5 years), started doing odd jobs until, at 25, I ended up in a (then) more than 100.000 employee corporation where I received an Employee of the Year award (in my service center) after my first year for opening a new business line. I joined a (then) small ESG Research provider as an Engineer and worked my way up to Director of Engineering in 4 years. Even before the pandemic came I felt that I need a shift in how I approach things in life so I quit climbing the corporate ladder and started studying Philosophy and Psychology. I hold the same position with my employer and do my best to be there with my team, colleagues and friends. I continued to make music throughout my life and am now working to create my own music-oriented company that will hopefully launch next year.
LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei-stoicescu/
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