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THE FOUNDATION OF OUR APPROACH
MORE PAPERS AND MULTIMEDIA
Introductions
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Introductory Papers
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Retooling
on
the Run: Real Change for Leaders with No Time
An
introductory excerpt from Dr. Heller's ground-breaking book written with Dr. David Sheppard
Surrenda,
Frog, Ltd, 1994.
"We are all facing tremendous changes in
our work and personal lives. Pressures from work, family, friends, and personal health draw
upon our precious available hours. Time is a big issue. Life has speeded up for most
people and is not likely to slow down in the foreseeable future. It is easy to see how
self-development can take a back seat to daily survival..."
Colleagues, especially in the technical
arena, often email this paper to prospective clients. Books by
Stuart
Applied
Human
Systems
- a movie introduction
Ideas
become Results through Action. Here is a three-minute
movie we use to set the stage for our technical leaders program.
This version was designed for the NASA Systems Engineering Program -
SEED.
A
Systems View of Action Part 1 Part 2
Nothing happens without action yet the
way most of us have learned to think about action is too simplistic
given our goals and real world situations. In this two-part movie
(15 minutes in total), we build the foundation for a view of action
that takes into account eight primary dimensions: Intention,
Responsiveness, Habit, Consequences, Strategy, Mind-Set, Process and
Authenticity. We also integrate three systems perspectives:
mechanical, living and human.
Introduction
to Applied Human Systems
This
paper presents our basic approach to technical leadership and six
success stories from our work with the SEED Program (Systems
Engineering and Education Development) at Goddard Space Flight
Center/NASA.
The
Sense of
Truth: A Cognitive Movement Simulation
It
is in the world of actuality that our results are tested. Yet
often when we test, we fail to appreciate the full dimension of
possibilities. What if the visceral and the abstract were
inseparable? And thinking, feeling, and moving were intimately
connected? Using words to point to that which cannot be bound by
words, this paper explores a journey toward an authentic sense of truth.
In
November 2005, Stuart presented the closing keynote speech for the International Leadership
Association conference in Amsterdam,
Netherlands. It presents a view of our basic theory on
cultivating leadership excellence.
A View of What
We Do
A
clear and concise essay by Carol Heller to introduce our
approach. It builds on her twenty-five years of personal and
professional experience with the East/West educational discipline of
movement psychology. Books by Carol
A
short introduction to the importance of the non-verbal dimension of
everything we say, do, and experience.
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Basic
Theory
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Basic
Theory
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The
Movement of
Strategy
At
the heart of our approach is a model we call "The Five Rings." In
a
simple yet powerful way, it helps us to connect Western psychological
models with the concrete teachings of the ancient Asian warriors and
sages. In this short paper, you are introduced to the idea of
stress
responses and how they influence mindset and mood.
The
Language of
Strategy
According
to Musashi, "The language of strategy is the language of Nature." This
paper unfolds the Five Rings Model through the eyes of
accomplishment. Using ideas drawn from popular behavioral styles
models, it explores the Rings through the relationships between Goals,
Tasks, People, and Results.
An
Alternative View of Habit
This
short paper offers a positive and constructive view of this crucially
important systems function that has profound implications for both personal life
and corporate health.
The
Importance of the Internal Senses
Our
basic senses are much more important than we normally consider.
It is through them that we encounter the concrete world. While
most of our attention has been on our external senses, like sight and
hearing, it is our internal senses, like proprioception or muscle
sense, that are key to both self-honesty and real change.
Story
of Stress
Responses
A
common misconception about the master warrior is that he or she
lives in a world beyond fear. The actual truth is even more
astounding. This short paper presents the primal reality
upon which our Five Rings Matrix is built.
The
Boundaries of Relationship
Relationship
and trust are fundamentally about boundaries. Here is a short essay
that uses a
combination of words and graphic images to convey some of key concepts.
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east-west
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An
East/West
View
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The
Power of Movement: The
East/West
Difference
This
short paper uses a classical samurai story to reveal some of the deep
paradigmatic differences between East and West. It examines the
normal difficulty of generalizing or embodying learning from this
perspective.
The
Eastern Roots of
the Language of Movement
In
this short essay, Stuart brings to the Western reader a fresh and
accessible view of some of the most important ideas of classical
Chinese
thinking. He draws upon the ancient warriors and sages to bring
us ancient yet new ideas that are of timeless value.
The
Way of the
Warrior-Sage
In
an exploration of visual thinking combined with a minimalist use of
words, here are some of the key principles that inform the Way of the
Warrior-Sage.
A
short excerpt from the Sufi master and musician, Inayat Khan, from his
book, Philosophy, Psychology,
Mysticism: The Sufi Message. "Every movement has a
greater significance than one can imagine..."
Song
of the
Dance
Here
is an excerpt from Stuart's book, The
Dance
of
Becoming: Living Life as a Martial Art. "The whole has
many parts but no pieces." "Experiencing the intimate connection
with all life, I move as a flowing whole." Links for
books by Stuart
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Articles
by Others
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Articles
by Others
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Mastering
Sustainable Change
Written
in collaboration with Linda Kelley of TransForm, we explore why making changes is so
difficult for people, then look at some classical approaches to making
change last.
Versatility: The
New Necessity
Susan
Burton, Ph.D., CAE, has written a series of articles for Association
Executive Magazines. Written in 2001, she draws on Dr. Heller's Retooling on the Run: Real Change for
Leaders with No Time to illustrate how the uncommon wisdom of
business gurus like Peter Drucker and John Naisbitt can be made
concrete and practical.
The
Body's
Language
of Leadership
Roundstone,
Intl, a global consulting firm, commissioned Camilla Rockwell to
interview the participants of a two-day program we offered for their
corporate clients and friends. The article was published in
Roundstone's newsletter.
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Links for Books by Stuart Heller
Links Books by Carol Heller
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Links
for
Books
by Carol Heller
Carol
published
a sword-and-sorceress trilogy,
The Shunlar Chronicles.
The Gates of Vensunor
The
Sands of Kalaven
The
Stones of Stiga
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7challenges
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The
Seven Challenges to Change
A MultiMedia Human Systems View
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The Seven Challenges to
Change (6.5 minutes)
Why is it so difficult to change,
especially given our intentions, motivation, and skill? Perhaps
it is because we do not take into account the seven archetypal
challenges to change, a.k.a., the seven attention traps. Working
with these you can change
everything.
Although the classical solution
for each of these is the same,
the more of yourself you bring to the
moment
the clearer, stronger and more
masterful you become
Everyone
requires
their
own unique plan and practices.
For
a
custom
designed program for yourself or your team,
contact us at: CultivatingExcellence@w-y-t.com
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The Challenge of
Unrecognized Habits (3.5 minutes)
Influencing all of the challenges to
change and excellence is how you relate to your habits.
Unrecognized, your habits acquire an exponentially greater power to
control your life.
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The Challenge of Mind Wandering
(1.5 minutes)
One of the basic challenges to change we all face is how to balance the
natural tendency of the mind to wander with the necessity of paying
attention to here and now. For when I am unaware of my
wanderings, I go out of synch with life.
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The Challenge of Holding to Old Knowing
(2
minutes)
One of the basic challenges to change we
all face is how to handle the natural desire to hold to what I know in
the face of the pressure to take in new ideas. In other words, what I
know can block new ideas.
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The Challenge of Danger-Mind
(7
minutes)
One of the basic challenges to change is
how we deal stress and shock. Comparing the understandings of
stress and shock of the ancient East with modern medical and
psychological research points to something that happens – to all of us
– when we get stuck in the biological reaction called the startle
reflex. We call this Danger Mind.
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The Challenge of Task Absorption
(1.5 minutes)
One of the basic challenges to change we
all face is how to maintain center and balance while maintaining our
commitment to results. Here is the computer version of this
challenge.
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The Challenge of the Multi-Task Dilemma (2.25 minutes)
One of the basic challenges to change is
the everyday dilemma of multi-tasking. In our busy and intense
lives, the ability to handle multiple tasks seems extraordinarily
important and necessary. What if the key to doing this better is
learning how to better balance task and self?
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The Challenge of Complexity Overload
(5.25 minutes)
One of the basic challenges to change is
how we handle the familiar experience of feeling overloaded by the
increasing complexity of our lives. Taking a systems view of this
phenomenon reveals it to have an archetypal foundation, that is,
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