TACTics Journal

A Publication for and by TOC for Education Practitioners

November 28, 2003

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 Limor Winter-Kraemer, Israel

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 Riester, South Carolina, USA

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, 2253 S. Hill Island Rd., Cedarville,

Michigan 49719, USA. Or send hyperlink to cedwards@cedarville.net or

bucknek@earthlink.net.

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