Welcome To Advanced Communicating
This is a community of forward thinkers like yourself, who delight in reading, questioning and sharing views on a wide variety of human fascinations. Some of the ideas we will talk about here are:
What is mastery and why go for it?
Is the concept of developmental levels elitist?
What's up with the baby boomers?
What's it take to be enlightened?
What's all the hoorah about being present, the power of now and finding stillness... and what's it got to do with coaching?
Where are you on your path of development and why does it matter?
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Tell me what you think of a website called Advanced Communicating just showcasing advanced communicating? What do you think of the questions? What questions would you like to see discussed?
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Posted by: anna | February 11, 2004 at 09:23 AM
GREAT start anna.
looking forward to how this all unfolds. /s
Posted by: Susan | February 11, 2004 at 02:21 PM
You go girl!! Great energy and great ideas.
Looking forward to conversations about Baby Boomers. Dana Arell
Posted by: Dana | February 11, 2004 at 07:41 PM
Hi Anna et al!
Thank you Anna for allowing us to participate in this conversation! It struck me while reading your comments on Mastery how I've tended to be a "jack of all trades" instead of "Mastering" something. The plight of the ordinary - content with mediocrity. How fortunate now that I've found coaching - not that I've "mastered" anything, yet, but now the door is open and my world of possibility is so much wider!
XO Brenda
Posted by: Brenda | February 20, 2004 at 05:34 PM
Anna,
Thank you for this forum and for the sensitive interview with Phil Karl. I think Phil is right that to communicate most effectively we must first create a deep and profound friendship with ourselves and recognise our basic goodness as human beings.
Perhaps only to the degree that we can relax to ourselves and to the world as it is can we be of benefit to others. Then we can have a joyful curiosity about the whole thing, recognize the perfection more easily and elicit greatness in others. I realize I have plenty to work on here when i contemplate my response to certain political figures and situations!
What attracted me to CV was TL's proficiencies so many of which seem closely related to Buddhist principles that I was aspiring to. The brilliance of the proficiencies is, as you said, that they were all expressed in secular terms. Tom Stone's Core Dynamics work is also contributing another piece to this rich spiritual stew without the outward trappings of any religion. IMHO To be advanced communicators we have to continue to find ways to reach everyone where they are without spiritual terms or hierarchies like POD that might get in the way. Refering to ourselves as "forward thinkers" and "advanced communicators" (though I REALLY like being considered part of such a select group) perhaps elevates and separates us from those we may wish to connect with the most. I think mastering advanced communicating may be different than being id'ed as an advanced communicator, maybe I made up that label myself. I think I am going to go to bed before I unskillfully communicate anything more.
Warmest regards,
Sali
Posted by: Sali Taylor | February 23, 2004 at 05:54 AM
Who wrote that long winded, conversation stopping piece anyway? Opps, it was me, sorry.
Sali
Posted by: Sali Taylor | February 28, 2004 at 08:34 PM