Terminology
(alphabetically)
Consulting/Consultant
- As it applies to me and my work, I use the
terms "consulting" and "consultant" as an umbrella term for my skills as a: mentor, coach, trainer, facilitator, guide
(particularly in innerworks experientials)
, and mediator (both intra-personal and interpersonal conflict). These are not redundant terms, but distinct
orientations and applications of presence that I enact and
apply.
Demonstrated Valuing
- We all know
that talking the talk
is one thing, but walking the talk
is
quintessential evidence for who and what we say we are. In that regard,
I make a significant distinction between having values
and that of demonstrated valuing, regarding my consulting (
see definition, above)
practice. The former sounds good in
marketing or leadership meetings, and looks good in brochures. The
latter is how a person actually shows up
in the world, especially with one's clients, customers, and
stakeholders. It's what people experience about us, as us, day in and
day out. All without a commitment or a promise to do so, spoken or
otherwise.
Depthwork and Heightwork
(Vertical work) - This
is not typical
personal change-development work in that it includes your opening to
deeper/higher mental and consciousness structures, content, and dynamics than normal business coaching
dialogue would avail. It can include closed-eye processes, opening into and
engaging relevant
emotional content, and shadow work per your readiness, all as appropriate to your realtime willingness and abilities.
Evolutional-being
- A condition of consciousness and mindedness when we have sufficiently opened into our capacity and capability of innascence
(see definition, below), and function there a majority of the time, thus presencing us to the evolutional currents
(
see definition, below)
within
us. We are then more prone to evolutionally developing, to
transformational (vertical) shifts of consciousness and mental
functioning, being in the moment, being a
person who is now
predominantly evolutionally-open in their consciousness and mental paradigm, functioning primarily
in/as their authentic self, in an evolutional-consciousness
(
see definition, below).
Evolutional-business - a business that is enacted by evolutional-beings
(
see definition,
above) in their evolutional-consciousness
(
see definition, below
) via their innascence
(
see definition, below).
Evolutional-consciousness
- having a consciousness that is
1) actively open and responsive to life's "evolutional/creational currents" that
are operating within our, and everyones, consciousness, and 2) able to
enact ontological, "onto-nascent" states of innascence
(see definition, below) of mind and presence at any point during our day. These two capabilities naturally avail us to a greater propensity for transformational movement into higher stages of consciousness over time, dependent upon our readiness
(willingness and ability) along the way. This conscious capability means that we have moment-to-moment access to ontological, ontogenic, ontonascent, by whatever terms, consciousness and mental presencing dynamics. It's important to understand that this dynamic is creationally-evolutional and evolutionally-creative, both, being one and the same dynamic current, however termed.
Evolutional Currents
- These
"currents," by whatever name and notion, are functionally in us both as individual
human beings and among us as a species.
They're current
in that they're
immediate,
present,
here and now, and they also function somewhat like an
electrical current, connecting objects
in our brain (cells in this case) via synapses, invisibly empowering things to happen, like
thinking, feelings, and behavior; these currents also occur between us and others impelling
the emergence of more evolved ways of relating and engaging, especially
to the extent that we're learning to loosen our mental grip
on present
understandings, beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, and the like.
Evolving/Evolutional
-
The observable progressive change, growth, and development that organic
life--as well as things produced by humans--goes through, be it
products, organizations, economies, concepts, beliefs, language, and
yes, consciousness capacities and capabilities. As used here, this
concept is not inconsistent with that of creation, since they're viewed
as a two-sides-of-one-coin dynamic of development (also see Evolutional-consciousness, above).
EvolvingAdvantedge
Consciousness
- This is a term that conveys the leading-edge nature of our being-as-becoming and functioning in and from our innascence
(see definition, below) as an evolutional-being
(see
definition, above). It also refers to the ever-emegent evolving nature
of this state. It is a functioning in a state of consciousness that is
like playing
at our evolutional edge, in our evolutional sweet
spot, which occurs in us as 1) an advantage over not doing so, and also
as 2) a predisposition to evolving in this state because
of its self-reflexively
evolving nature.
Innascence
(pronounced like "innocence") - Because of its nature, this is what I'm calling the new innocence
of adult emergent presence. It is an evolved, intentional, post-childhood version, where the dynamics of
1) innocence, 2) being in essence, 3) in nascence
and 4) in-a-sensing
all integrally express as a dynamic creational/evolutional regenerative awareness- state
of presence, a being-as-becoming in the now state of mindedness: innascence. A way to understand this
dynamically
ontological state-capacity and capability is by relating
it to that of accessing a nascent
state
of
consciousness and mind. This is
what I'm calling "innascence" or "onto-nascence," to coin two new terms. Nascence, by definition, is where
something is in a condition of coming into being, being born; beginning
to exist or develop. To help us understand what innascence
means,
look at the meaning of "nascence" along with three other words/phrases that both look and sound the same as "innascence":
"innocence"
, "in
essence," and "in-a-sense." "Innocence"
is defined as a condition (moralistic meanings aside) "of
simplicity; absence
of guile or cunning, having naivete, lack of knowledge or understanding;
harmlessness; innocuousness; learners mind."
And "in essence" means
the basic, real, and invariable nature
of a thing or its significant innate individual feature or features; the intrinsic or
indispensable properties that serve to characterize or identify something; something
that exists, especially a spiritual or incorporeal entity. And
look at "in-a-sense" as a consciousness-sensing (beyond our five senses,
but not "being psychic" and whatnot), where our consciousness senses
something via our awareness (awareness is of
consciousness, not of mind; mind is the filter awarenesses occurs through and is shaped by). Notice
that all of these meanings connote the lack of the
inclination
for judgment, a lack of the need to be right
or the need to be better than others, the need to win, the need to control, and other similar psychological
propensities and posturings we are probably very familiar with in the course of human functioning. Innascence
, on the other hand,
has a natural openness, curiosity, and wonder about life and any
situation we find ourselves in. It is a bi-located
consciousness-and-mental state of presencing oneself to what is, being
in the
now and becoming in the moment, instead of what various parts of our
contracted ego-self wants,
prefers,
or needs
the moment to be. It is when we ontologically see freshly
from our
perspective,
newly, originally, seminally, as feasible, in any moment with intention
to be serving something greater than only
our ego needs in the moment. It is a
dynamic state of seminal beingness-that-is-becoming in the Now, opened into a state that generates fresh perceptions, fresh
awareness
, fresh
thoughts, fresh
thinking. Also see an extended explanation of innascence excerpted from my book.
Inside-out vs. outside-in -
The change
I advocate, promote, and catalyze is driven
and generated
from within
you. It's sourced
by
you,
not driven by me or others, not to say your impetus for change(s) won't
sometimes be undertaken as a result of apparent outside pressures, including by attempts to "install" over-lay
change(s) that have been prescribed by a change-agent such as an
Organizational Development consultant, for example, or some such. In
working with you, I will facilitate, finesse, and help catalyze your
change(s), but you
choose,
emerge, generate, and actualize it/them. These are changes that you
recognize and accept a need for in
yourself and
want to make because you see they're yours, not mine or someone
else's chosen for you. This notion of inside-out change can also occur
for two or more individuals who are functioning as a we, a team, a
group, a unit, where all involved recognize and accept the need for a
change.
Introductory fee
-
Though the first couple sessions are usually free, the reason I eventually charge
anything at all in the subsequent early sessions is that I want to experience your sense of investment in your process, and to know that you do have
some investment in your endeavors other than merely time and curiosity.
Ontonascence
(same as Innascence ;
see definition,
above). When our awareness and its contents are in a state of becoming as a state
of
consciousness. This state of ontonascence empowers our capacity to eventually more easily and quickly make transformative evolutional shifts into
higher stages of consciousness functioning.
Over-lay change -
another term for outside-in
kinds of change (see definition of inside-out vs. outside-in
above).
Release-rise-and-ride
- A term that portrays the dynamic state-shift of opening into the state-consciousness and mental functioning of innascence
(see
definition, above), an "unweighting" from our everyday-mental approach
to life and business (which tends to be very left-brained,
inside-the-box, and of the command-and-control variety of orienting our
awareness) and "riding" that state as is appropriate to the occasion in
any moment.
Theta brainwave state -
According to brainwave research, Theta
brainwaves are one of four sets of brainwaves (from faster to slower: Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta).
The Theta brainwave frequency, roughly 4 to 7 cycles
per second, avails us to a rather profound state of awareness once we learn to be
aware while
there and better harness
this modality of awareness.
Unless you
have had bio-feedback training you're not apt to be consciously aware when you
are in Theta. And if you are, you aren't aware of it as anything you can do
something with.
Theta is the level of brainwave
frequencies nearest to deep sleep, the Delta brainwaves (.5-4 cycles), and
therefore for most of us, once in bed, we generally slide right through Theta
unawares into the Delta state.
This is especially the case
because more than 80% of people lead sleep-deprived lives.
Or, if we have trouble falling asleep and go
into a mode of worrying about things, we stay in some agitated mixture of Beta memories
mixed with deep Alpha or light Theta (like some form of
"dream-worrying" that's hard to get out of, keeping us from falling
asleep) until we finally get mentally fatigued enough at which point we then
quickly slide from Theta into Delta...unconscious.
Theta can function as a portal of awareness into
mental capabilities not typically accessible—though available—to us in our
everyday awake state that we know as Beta brainwaves.
Traction and Transition Tools
- These
mental/emotional/behavior tools
are created on the fly in our sessions
for you to use to more quickly transition you through our co-discovered
"blocks" to your progress; any
acknowledged
stuck or stagnant dynamic
s
that are operating in you and inhibiting your progress.
Note:
due
to the evolutional nature of consciousness, it is suggestd that the
preceding terms be grasped more metaphorically than as exacting mental
constructs to
be cognitively "clung to" as absolutes of any kind.