TACTics Journal
A Publication for and by TOC for Education Practitioners
In this week’s issue:
Networking
(1) Four Categories of Injections, Limor
Winter-Kraemer
Reader’s Feedback
(2) Barbara Riester
Editors’ Notes
(3) Kay Buckner-Seal, Cheryl A. Edwards
NETWORKING
(1) Four Categories of Injections
From
Last weekend I gave a two-day workshop on The Cloud. There were 17
people (14 new people). Most of them are using alternative methods
of
teaching in the classroom—methods like: Biblio-therapy, Music
Therapy, Art
Therapy, Theater, etc.
We had a very interesting and exciting time and I would like to
share with
you our experience. We clarified four categories of injections and
some
insights of how to work with them:
1. Practical/physical injection
2. Emotional injection
3. Mental injection
4. Philosophic injection
Practical/physical injection
The cloud is being resolved by an injection that is an action. The
injection is
“to do.” By taking an action, both B+C is being satisfied. For
some people it
is a very easy and natural way, others will have to use the
Ambitious Target
tool.
Emotional injection
This is an injection that creates a new emotional state. It has
two steps.
The first step is when we write “C” of the conflict cloud, we have
to
recognize the need of the other person.
When we do it, the directions are to look for a “legitimate need”
—a need
that we can say to ourselves that “we have it as well.” This
search for the
other person’s need occurs at our mental and emotional levels. The
finding
of this search has to be true to both our mind and heart. Thus, by
doing it,
we have to make ourselves a bigger “container” —a container that
is able to
hold not just our-self-needs, but another person’s needs as well.
As we all
know this is not simple, especially when the other person is the
one that you
have the conflict with. Yet, increasing our ability to contain is
necessary if
we want to have also an emotional win-win.
The second step is when we are having the dialogue with the other
person;
usually people have different levels of needs. When we ask the
other person
to say hes need, s/he will usually share with us one of the
upper/higher
needs. They are much easier to talk about.
But when we choose to look for an emotional injection, we have to
be able to
create an environment that will enable the other person to express
a deeper
need. If we are successful and the other person shares with us a
deeper
need, then by this, the conflict is resolved. There is no longer a
need to
fight for D’. The focus of the conversation is on how to satisfy
C, which is
another good reason for being in touch with our deepest needs.
Mental injection
A mental injection is one that breaks the cloud by a new
understanding of
the conflict. Sometimes a person is stuck in a loop of thoughts
and can not
come up with any new ideas. In this case we can do the following:
1. We use “Intuitive Writing.” In intuitive writing, the person
remembers
(at the back of hes mind) the subject of his cloud and tries to
come up with
questions about it. The writings do not have to be in any
particular
order—only one question that leads to the next one. Then, the
person goes
back to the cloud and looks again for injection.
If it does not help, then he goes back to the list of questions
and starts to
answer them…then, back to the cloud. If this doesn’t help we give
it one
more chance.
2. We ask the person to look around the room and to choose any
object he
wants. (Table, door, paper, coffee, etc.) Then we ask him to write
this
object as the D of the cloud and then to complete the rest of the
cloud.
When s/he has this cloud, s/he has to
surface the assumptions for it. What we
found out is that by using this cloud the
person is able to see reality through a
different perspective and to raise new
assumptions that are relevant to his
original cloud. And if all of this did
not help, we look for another category of
injection.
Philosophic injection
The cloud is being resolved by an injection that affects the
perception of
reality and values.
Now, I am having these questions:
• How can we know if a conflict is resolved?
• How can we tell that it did not move to another category?
• Do we need all for categories in order to resolve a conflict?
• And, is it the same for Ambitious Target?
READER’S FEEDBACK
(2) From Barbara
This is in regards to the article published in last week’s
TACTics, by Mike
Round, “Aesop’s Fables in the 21st Century.”
I would take this one step further...How do I go about making the
injection
(whistle while I work) a reality?
Most people define work and play as opposites. If I select a
career where
work and play are synonymous (in my point of view), then I should
be able to
“whistle while I work.”
EDITORS’ NOTES
(3) Kay
Buckner-Seal
Limor, thanks for sharing the experiences and insights from your
workshop.
You raise some very interesting questions, which we hope that our
readers
will feel free enough to share their responses. So TOCFE readers,
drop us a
line! Send by mail to: Cheryl A. Edwards,
bucknek@earthlink.net.
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