Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Approach to Counselling

Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Approach to Counselling

His ideas originated in 1940. His work popularly called Rogerian, was personally disliked by the author. He would prefer Person-Centered Approachinstead. 

Roger’s posited that his experience in childhood came from a reaction to his upbringing of being unheard and being judged. He wanted to create an environment where the client felt heard, listened to and cared.

During his childhood, being exposed to his father’s farm, he began to appreciate the need for scientific enquiry and research. 

Paradoxically, his person-centered approach is the exact opposite to science. Initially, he began with Clinical Psychology. As he began to get into treatment interviews, he discovered a few new things: 

For one, he discovered that there were no ‘problem child, just problem parents’, there was a great problem with parents. He discovered working with the mother that she was ‘rejecting’ the child all the time. On deeper enquiry, the mother poured out a case history, quite different to what was shared earlier. He came to the insight that rather than show he had expertise, he should focus on deep listening and understanding the source of the pain. To continue to stay in the process with curiosity.

Soon, Carl Rogers began to articulate a few principles that were new and radical at that time.

Carl posits that the role of a counselor is to be a ‘midwife’ to the personality. He advocated the need for ‘unconditional positive regard’If one can be genuinely understanding, be oneself, listening deeply and well, that’s a deep commitment that the Coach brings to the conversation. if that situation can emerge, not forced, but deeply authentic. This is quite different than say, friendship, where the focus is on the friend. Counselling is a far more intense relationship than friendship: while friendship is valuable it is different to the sharp focus of psychotherapy.  

In group therapy, other members become facilitative as well. 

The process is somewhat the same: individuals revealing data about themselves. Instead of feeling ‘awful’ about revealing, it feels accepted. Groups tend to, given the time that they have, to bring ‘closure’. They try and commit to whatever they can do, in the time available. This social support is hugely helpful. It is to be remembered that age, backgrounds, gender make no difference to effectiveness of groups. Groups have a ‘wisdom’ that emerge naturally. Selection of group is overrated, says Roger.

A goal that most people seek to attain, the good life as described by Rogers is achieved by the person fulfilling certain principles. In his studies Rogers found that there are commonalities among those people who are fully functional. These are:
An acceptance of all experiences including those that are new.
An existential lifestyle, in which each moment is appreciated and lived to its fullest.
A trust level with one’s own decisions.
Increasing freedom of choice
Creativity and adaptability without necessarily conforming.
Reliability and constructiveness in their dealings with others.
A preference for living a rich, full life.


These traits are fluid in their expression with the person being capable of self-actualizing them.

Mere awareness is not enough

Now in my second innings as an Executive Coach working with a recent client, I interrogated the question: Can people really Change? What creates permanent Change?

Here are my reflections:

Mere awareness is not enough, awakening is necessary, followed with cognitive and emotional integration. Now this awareness could come from personal evocation (as in internally located) or it could be on account of an external provocation. Either way, an awareness which seeks greater human connect is what sets off this process.

Mere awareness is not enough.

Mere awareness is not enough. Awareness (cognitive) is not enough. There needs to be an awakening! An awakening in the inner self, that once ignited, has its own movement, its own momentum to growth, with its resultant pulls and pushes. Often the awareness is held in abeyance, suppressed. Not available to the Conscious memory. When confronted with an uncomfortable situation, the protagonist with draws, tightens up, and is even absent to her feelings. She appears confused, lost, immobilised, and unable to make any movement forward. Even a simple task appears frightening, difficult to achieve, and one's confidence is at low ebb. Action is frozen.

Often the ‘Body remembers what the mind forgets’ – JL Moreno. The limbic memory may be a storehouse to repressed memories outside the access of the cortex mind. Using a spectrogram, the facilitator may encourage participant to choose location of how warmed up they might be to one theme or another. How depressed they are: High, Medium or Low, etc. It is to be understood that all emotions which are real are present in the body: it is located. It may be a pain in the chest, a constriction in the throat, etc, but the emotion is present in the body. The split off /withheld pain needs to be articulated. Locating the source of the emotion in the body is the first step.

Accessing the limbic memory

Ask, "If the pain had a voice, what would it say?" This allows bringing awareness to the body. It is necessary to support client complete the interrupted pattern between feeling and thinking and allowing for integration. Through this process Inner dialogue is encouraged, and client is encouraged and empowered to own his internal truth. One should be careful that clients ‘own words’ should be picked: no additional nor interpreted context added. Stay curious to the ‘feeling world’, what comes up, price being paid: intended and unintended. Is there are cyclical pattern to what is coming up – over and over again. A repetitive cycle, clockwork and devoid of any new alternatives. Use of doubling, and auxiliary may be introduced to aid bringing awareness. This would mean client sharing her story, the whole story, the unsaid story, the also said. The interrupted pattern needs to be completed and thought and feeling integrated wholesomely. The event must go beyond the phenomenological to traverse the interpersonal and intra psychic. At some levels, at an intra existential level universal issues such as Death, Freedom, Isolation, and Meaning may need to be dealt with.

Integration

Now this awareness would continue to remain static, dry, if it is merely contained within intellectualism. No wonder self help books, motivational speeches, are not sustainable: it is food fo the mind, intellectually stimulating, but that's all there is. Unless one is able to connect to the emotive level, true awakening is not possible. Again, awakening itself is not enough: it may remain transient and the benefits short-lived. The catharsis, that may follow, may be welcome, but it should be followed by insight and integration.  

Preventing regards, Steve -occurance

Through helping understand anticipatory feelings at the onset, managing the symptoms in the episodic event, and through cognitive re-structuring (from a negative, self-limiting belief to a more self-authoring stance) is change possible. One needs to change the personal narrative of the self. 

Anger - Just Become Aware

Anger is frustrated love. At times, anger grips us uncontrollably. What can we do about it? To begin with let's look at various thoughts offered on this.




1. Osho - managing Anger - If somebody creates anger in you, tell him that you will come back with response in 24 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aT_sSY6swY

A Zen student came to Bankei and said: "Master, I have an ungovernable temper -- how can I cure it?"
"Show me this temper," said Bankei, "it sounds fascinating."
"I haven't got it right now," said the student, "so I can't show it to you."
"Well then" said Bankei, "bring it to me when you have it."
"But I can't bring it just when I happen to have it," protested the student. "It arises unexpectedly, and I would surely lose it before I got it to you."
"In that case," said Bankei, "it cannot be part of your true nature. If it were, you could show it to me at any time. When you were born you did not have it, and your parents did not give it to you -- so it must come into you from the outside. I suggest that whenever it gets into you, you beat yourself with a stick until the temper can't stand it, and runs away.”



First thing: in controlling you repress, in transformation you express. But there is no need to express on somebody else because the "somebody else" is just irrelevant. Next time you feel angry go and run around the house seven times, and after it sit under a tree and watch where the anger has gone. You have not repressed it, you have not controlled it, you have not thrown it on somebody else -- because if you throw it on somebody else a chain is created, because the other is as foolish as you, as unconscious as you. If you throw it on another, and if the other is an enlightened person, there will be no trouble; he will help you to throw and release it and go through a catharsis. But the other is as ignorant as you -- if you throw anger on him he will react. He will throw more anger on you, he is repressed as much as you are. Then there comes a chain: you throw on him, he throws on you, and you both become enemies.


Don't throw it on anybody. It is the same as when you feel like vomiting: you don't go and vomit on somebody. Anger needs a vomit. You go to the bathroom and vomit! It cleanses the whole body -- if you suppress the vomit it will be dangerous, and when you have vomited you will feel fresh, you will feel unburdened, unloaded, good, healthy. Something was wrong in the food that you took and the body rejects it. Don't go on forcing it inside.


Anger is just a mental vomit. Something is wrong that you have taken in and your whole psychic being wants to throw it out, but there is no need to throw it out on somebody. Because people throw it on others, society tells them to control it.


There is no need to throw anger on anybody. You can go to your bathroom, you can go on a long walk -- it means that something is inside that needs fast activity so that it is released. Just do a little jogging and you will feel it is released, or take a pillow and beat the pillow, fight with the pillow, and bite the pillow until your hands and teeth are relaxed. Within a five-minute catharsis you will feel unburdened, and once you know this you will never throw it on anybody, because that is absolutely foolish.


2. Eckhart Tolle - on dealing with anger, resistance and pessimism

Anger is explosive - the ‘pain body’ just be there with it as a Witness.

Don’tChange, Don’t suppress. Just become aware! The awareness will change it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqX5IFKYFWk


3. Sadguru - On how to avoid Anger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAsJvKsd2Xk

Anger is poisoning yourself. Anger is because mind is not taking instructions from you. Anger is happening to you because you are not in command of your faculties. Human consciousness should create situations not the other way around.

4. Buddhism - View on Anger

Anger (including all forms of aversion) is one of the three poisons—the other two are greed (including clinging and attachment) and ignorance—that are the primary causes of the cycle of samsara and rebirth. Purifying ourselves of anger is essential to Buddhist practice. Furthermore, in ​Buddhism, there is no such thing as “righteous” or “justifiable” anger. All anger is a fetter to realization.
The Buddha said, “Conquer anger by non-anger. Conquer evil by good. Conquer miserliness by liberality. Conquer a liar by truthfulness.” (Dhammapada, v. 233)

5. Bhagwad Gita - On Anger

b. From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one is ruined. —Bhagavad Gita 2.63

There are three gates leading to hell—lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul. —Bhagavad Gita 16.21

6. Others:
Seneca thought that anger is a temporary madness, and that even when justified, we should never act on the basis of it because, though "other vices affect our judgment, anger affects our sanity: Others come in mild attacks and grow unnoticed, but men's minds plunge abruptly into anger. … Its intensity is in no way regulated by its origin: For it rises to the greatest heights from the most trivial beginnings.”

SOAR and leverage yourself more!

Today I met an interesting Executive Coach who shared with me an interesting module in how one can help discern one's career as also how to leverage one's leadership strength.

The steps are quite simple really - its called S.O.A.R

1. Situation - describe 3-4 situations you have been in that stand out for you. What was it, the background, the actors involved. In other words, what was the challenge or opportunity?

2. Obstacles - What were some of the constraints or obstacles you've had to face to resolve the issue? How much of it was within your control or outside your control?

3. Action - What actions were available to you? What were the various options? why did you select the option you did? What actions did you finally take?

4. Outcome - What was the eventual outcome? Did the issue get resolved and how well?

Do try this out. List this on a sheet of paper, and you fill find a pattern emerging. Perhaps you will see a distinct style to how you approach challenges and opportunities. If all of these have lead to success, you would be able to glean a leadership style, a competency which stands out for you.

Of course you can do the similar exercise for situations where the outcome has not been great. This would likewise point out to your developmental opportunities.

You can use this tool for others areas too: What about my job, do I like / dislike, etc.

Knowing yourself, and your strengths is a critical tool to leverage your Career. Hopefully, this small post has got you thinking about You.

What lies ahead, just around the corner….

What lies ahead, just around the corner….

It is with tentativeness that I write about the transitions that we are journeying through. Tentative: because so much has been written about it already and would this article just be one more to add to the clutter?

Let me share what I am witnessing:

Emergence of new business models – newer organizations are emerging with low ‘brick and mortar’ presence. Processes are being re-written and transformed rapidly to enable fulfilment at the touch of a few buttons. Viola! need is satisfied. 

Consumer insights – traditional segmentation is giving way: Consumers are not this and that. They are this, that and more. Studying cohorts of consumers and using predictive analysis is now the new ways of target segmentation. 

Re-defining Assets – gone are the days, when assets were visible: towers, buildings, etc. Today most organizational assets are inherent in platforms, ‘ways of working’, agile strategy, etc. Computing power has exponentially increased yet inexpensively allowing us to make breakthroughs, chief of them – breaking codes. Do you recall how Alan Turin cracked the Enigma Code?

Just in time – this was confined to logistics, now directed to the final consumer. Consumers have access to unbelievable SKU’s, and fulfillment and route to gratification is but a few digital clicks away.

New paradigms in design – we now have access to digital prototypes. Make, re-assemble, test, re-test – all done digitally. Imagine the lowering of costs, and ‘speed to market’ on innovative products. 

These are but a sprinkling of change we can see around us, which will only exponentially rise. 

Imperatives for Organisation – to survice this VUCA organisations need to scan the environment continuously, take big bets, anticipate opportunity and create the future, while continuously learning and adapting. Individuals learning is not just enough, the organsiation as a whole will require to be agile and enable an agile strategy. However, most critical it is for leaders to have an agile mindset.

This task cannot be left to HR alone. While HR responds to Business how does business respond to the environment? This requires collective awareness and a call for action. HR must disrupt itself: it must recognize and support the coming together of both the ‘dominant logic’ and the ‘dominant psyche’ of the organization: through that lens ensure all work systems, work processes, information flows, capability mechanisms, and leadership initiatives are ‘inter-connected’ for mutuality and collaboration.

I advocate small and agile squad teams: many squadrons that work seamlessly together: creating the network for new possibilities. 

Leadership pyramids that currently exist, need critical re-examination. 

The first step to Change is Awareness. 

This is Day One

Day One!

17^thSeptember was my last day at work at Diageo, having spent four years supporting a massive transformation, that included re-structuring, new ways of working and building out a high-performance culture.

Although we had a farewell party a few evenings back, on my last day the team assembled together with HR folks from the region on Zoom to say a ‘final goodbye’.

The cake was unwrapped, and it said, ‘Happy Birthday’. (most cakes come for such occasions at office). Someone apologized, but unconscious process was clearly at work: recognizably this was a birthdate for me. A new birth to a new avatar. 

Today 18^thSeptemberis day one! 

Amazon is a 21-year-old company and yet each day is a ‘day one’ experience at work. Someone once asked Jeff Bezos at an all hands what ‘day two’ looks like.

Bezos response, “Day two is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating painful decline. Followed by death.” And that’s why each day at Amazon is always going to be day one.

As the curtain falls on time that marks day one, I have a lot to feel good about. It’s been an amazing day: including a website I flagged off late evening. I have never felt so exhilarated, ever so joyful. Hundreds of messages have poured in from friends and well-wishers and I have been touched. Blessings, goodwill and support have poured in and I have been so humbled. I feel blessed, grateful and truly privileged for the love and affection I have received.  

Day one is about ambition, vision and self-commitment, I imagine. I must remember that Tomorrow never comes. Tomorrow comes as Today. Every tomorrow comes as today. For today is always going to be the first day for what will be the rest of my life. 

For what happened until today is just my history. It cannot influence my geography. The past has no power over me, no influence in how I chose to live my Today. Unless I chose to let it. 

Let me commit to lead my life, One day at a time….one day at a time….

Work is Worship, and the Fountain for happiness

Work is Worship, and the Fountain for happiness

We are all in search for that ever-elusive quest for happiness. 

Several millennia ago our Indian sages posited in the Purusharthas the blueprint for fulfilment that all persons should aim for: the fourfold path of Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha. Working with them creates a satisfied, meaningful life at the most holistic level. 

There is scores of literature that point to various aspects to gain happiness. From Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs, to Clare Graves, Beck and Ken Wilber postulates on Integral theory which confirms the teleological and evolutionary stages of both moral and cognitive development, that allows for ‘growing up’.

From religion, especially more meditative spiritual practices that allow for self-realization and ‘waking up’, and which allows for the transcendental. Most religion, still get entrenched in archaic, mystical, magical and mythical symbols, and get questioned with ever expanding frontiers of science. 

From literature on EQ/ SQ, that confirms that self-insight is by itself not enough, one needs to add: being sensitive to how one ‘impacts and influences’ others. 

To modern age fads, including power yoga, power foods – all are wishing a slice to fill this insatiable thirst. 

Few have otherwise posited a recent insight I have been exploring: could meaningful work itself be the source of continuous joy? Someone said, ‘The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Just think, if we took away the occupation of a person (his meaning), what a wretched world it would be!

Few of us realsie that work is worship: how critical it is to be engaged in something that keeps us busy, otherwise we would be busy with our thoughts – either ‘future thoughts of anxiety’ or ‘past thoughts of nostalgia’. 

Happiness is not a search for something, it is a state. Remember, the oft quoted reference to ‘the journey being more exciting than the destination’? Work provides an opportunity to put mind, heart and all the forces within to potentialise.

When there is work to do, health, wealth and relationships follow. By itself these don’t bring happiness. Work does. Keeping the inner currents moving at work, flowing in the moment, being in a meditative state at work, that is the essence of happiness. Even in physical labour, one actually stops thinking. Show me someone who enjoys his work, and you will see ‘samadhi in action’. 

No wonder the great book ever written, The Gita has us remember, ‘focus on the doing, the deserving will follow’. 

To all my readers, Continue to work with zest, and Keep walking!

Indian Psychology

Indian Psychology

Ever wonder why there is scant study of the brain in Indian Psychology? Given such a rich heritage why were seers of truth not building out on how the brain works? There was no need for it. Like a room you entered (the brain) the meditator used it as a launching pad to jump start out into search for consciousness. Why then the need to describe the room? Pointless it seems.

The pursuit of Indian search was for consciousness: the search for absolute reality. All else is a maya. The ‘Sat’ is the ultimate truth: that truth which is never changing, that which is permanence. Chit is an experience of consciousness; the self is a part of the consciousness, yet consciousness is absolute. Ananda, is the attribute of ultimate bliss: the ultimate to which everything dissolves. Creation is born, sustained, evolved, maintained and dissolved in Ananda: that which is life itself.

The eternity of Ananda (bliss) is juxtaposed to Sat (absolute truth) and to Chit (the ultimate consciousness) to confirm that the wholesome pursuit of life is the search for Satchitananda. 

Indian psychology is more concerned with Waking Up to the self realising the ultimate reality. It has discerned that the body is not the self, nor is the mind, the self. That consciousness exists in the waking, dreaming, sleeping and deep stage - all of these are ONE and parts of the Ultimate Brahman. 
Ultimately the self is dissolved and there is no self - just one consciousness. 

Western literature, on the other hand, have sought to research the brain patterns to discern consciousness. It has carefully sought to look at the 'room within'. It is more concerned with the growing up ie the Psychological maturity of the being.

Hence the difference: the west searches the room, the Eastern mind, enters the room and jumps out!

Ken Wilber – Integral Theory (Waking up versus Growing up)

Ken Wilber – Integral Theory (a few thoughts)

Ken studied a dozen world tradition of thoughts (read this as religion), in his youth and wrote a book on the soul and consciousness. He wrote the spectrum of consciousness when he was 23 years. He worked as a dishwasher for next ten years and wrote ten books during that period. 

Two Spiritual dimensions
Human beings have two spiritual dimensions (relative and absolute) apart from cognitive, emotional, moral, aesthetic, spatial, musical, interpersonal, interpersonal, kinesthetic intelligence. We have both spiritual intelligence(psychological maturity)and spiritual experience (spiritual awakening). It's not awareness of content in the former (spiritual talk), but its an actual experience in the latter (spiritual walk). In the former, they may still think subject and object are one, but for themselves they experience their bodies and minds distinct with the 'other'. SI belongs to the path of 'growing up', whereas, SE is the path of 'waking up'. Here an experience of self and Universe is experienced. Most masters like Jesus, Buddha had SE. 

Satori (in the context of religion) allows for ‘cleaning up’, help uncover and integrate their shadow elements. Take an example of fear of one’s own anger. Pushing it to repression created psychotic manifestations. These show up in dreams or symbols around me. Meditation allows for de-identification with whatever comes up.  Defiled emotion is understood in meditation and it helps transcend it to something higher in wisdom. However, Freud or Fritz Pearl would have you work with your ghosts, alternating between being the one who is scared and the ghost itself, till the final step is to ‘own’ the monster. Not to stay with the false wisdom but to own that which was disowned: the disassociated emotion. This is the process of 'cleaning up' and we tend to often resort to projective identification: project our 'badness' onto others. A lot of shadow material comes up during this process. Often, there can be a splitting off, with consciousness being lost along the way, which stunts growth to higher levels. This reduces self authenticity in self.  'Showing up' is another process, wherein there are many dimensions to a human: the true, beautiful and good. (I, We, It). In essence we want to show up in all our dimensions - as 'man is this and that, and much more' - Pulin Garg.

The process of ‘cleaning up’ is the owning of the psychotic emotion, which is an essential therapeutic requirement. Unless one is in touch with the emotion itself, true transcendence would not occur.

Traditional religion embeds some belief systems, often magical mythical realism. Religiosity as a concept, is on a decline almost to single digits in the pre-modern world. Human beings have multiple intelligence (read Gardner). Spiritual intelligence is now a way, in which human beings think about ultimate reality.Transpersonal Psychology founded by Abraham Maslow posited the five levels of motivation needs and is relatively new as a thought. James Baldwin further worked  on 'growing up' while William James worked on 'waking up'. Unfortunately, these two processes have not been understood fully and together. 

As we move across spiritual intelligence one goes through several layers. Nazi doctors had a high level of cognitive intelligence, but arguably low in moral intelligence. There are three major groups and the lines in each groups:

1. cognitive development, 

2. self-sense – moral, levels of consciousness 

3. gifts and talents, competencies) develop together. 

Growing up is the capacity to growing up along all the three lines together. There are now a dozen models around such development theory. He writes about integral development model explaining his model with those of the popular models of that time. Like grammar rules, one follows them unconsciously, but one is not able to recognize it. Each level sees the world differently, yet introspection (like the rules of grammar) may not be possible. They use the grammar, the language but have no idea of what they are doing. These stages are explained by Clare Graves, Beck, Spiral Dynamics, etc. They follow the rules unconsciously and without awareness. It cannot be understood by reflecting within. More often than not one is aware of a world view quite in opposition held by another. Unless there is transmutation one would not progress to the next level. Often there is overplaying at one level, or a denial of that level, where it is not owned. Remember Jung sharing, "the brighter the light, the darker the shadow."

Awareness to these stages take time. As people become aware of this it helps changing their 'world view' and results in changing how people interact with issues around them. Since all of these have arrived only recently ‘growing up’ as a process is not available in any of the traditional religions. Religion more often, allows for a world view with a narrow lens. In the absence of 'waking up' in religion, the consequences are disastrous. Those at the lower stages interpret most things in an adversarial level, while those at higher level are more inclusive and loving. We all have a spiritual identity as a consequence of our level of development in spiritual intelligence. 
Unless religion incorporates both 'growing up' and 'waking up' the integration will not be complete. 

These stages can be simple: some four, some between 6-8 – all around development. However there exists four lenses: one from an interior perspective of the individual. Then the second lens looked at objectively from an exterior perspective offers another lens allow for a look at their exterior behaviours.

On the third quadrant, groups can be looked at from within: shared values and beliefs. From the outside, one can see objectively, legal, political and structures. The interior view is cultural, and the exterior view social. All four quadrants evolve and are interwoven together. Transmutation is within all four quadrants. Evolution is self-organization through self-transcendence. 

Most developmental theorists use colour or numbers. Humans move from an archaic, to a magic stage and to a mythical state, rational, pluralistic, integral stages, and depending on which stage we are, is the level of our spiritual intelligence, and how we interpret things, our frameworks and how we see mental and other things. We cannot skip a level: it is evolutionary. 

Lets see stages from a feminine perspective:

1. selfish (egocentric/narcissistic stage)
2. care (extends care from self to others) - ethnocentric
    Other groups are excluded - we are afraid of them.

3. Universal Care ( from Us to all of Us regardless of race)
4. Integral stage - combines male and female perspective.

Ken posits his version of consciousness - tetra apprehension. The previous moment is made an object for the subject in this moment and adds a ‘newness’ of creativity. As a new subject reviews a previous subject as an object, it includes and enfolds the past, and creates a causality to the present, not a strict determinism, but the newness transcends the causality, and creates new possibilities. As is known our human brain has within it the limbic, reptilian, mammalian, etc even while the Neo-cortex is a more recent phenomenon. 

The universe has three ultimates:  the one, the many and ‘the creative advance into novelty’. The newness is not random chance, instead the universe is winding up, and the creative advancing novelty, adds more to any subject.

All phenomenon must include and transcend and with newness create a new subject. In this way, more and more order is built from more and more chaos. 






This drives more inclusive realities, both in the ‘I’ dimension and with the ‘We’ dimension to ‘Us' dimension in newer social levels of society. 

From Quarks to atoms to molecules to cells, these are the stages of evolution. Only considerably down the road, Darwinism beginning to operate. Sexual reproduction is not a necessary condition for this transmutation and evolution to occur.  Ahead a more caring, inclusive, and loving phenomenon is arriving, and in the stages of consciousness.

The One, the Many, and the Creative is what has brought us to the integral age. Love will expand to be more inclusive, more expansive in its definition – a spirit in action! Love and moral sensitivity is the basis for our survival. This is where evolution is taking us – the Eros ever awakening. Looking around why would you doubt it.

Waking up, growing up, cleaning up and showing up are some of the ways we need to move through as we evolve through our spiritual consciousness. We are all going through the process in default, in organic movement, but what is required is conscious awareness. 

From a lens of executive coaching exploration can be done around the following areas"

"I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody - including me - has some important pieces of truth, and all of these pieces need to be honoured, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace." - Ken Wilber

Let me end with Max Planck: " If you change the way you look at things, the things that you look at change."

integral theory reviews both stages of consciousness (awakening, dreaming, sleeping, the now) with structure of consciousness (the elements described in the stages of cognitive development), as also the shadows that come up and distract one from the 'now'.