The Art of Energy HealingThe Art of Energy HealingVolume 6: Group Dynamics
Change occurs one person at a time, but on some level every individual is part of a group. So self-understanding comes from looking at both yourself as an individual, and yourself in a group dynamic. This book is another level of self-awareness for understanding both yourself and other people in a group dynamic. At some time in their lives most adults will experience themselves through teaching. It could be teaching their own children, an informal explanation to a group of adults, or a more formal setting, but most adults do interact in a group at a teaching level sometime within their life. This book explains some of the major energetic dynamics that goes on within groups and with the teaching process itself. To understand yourself is not just to understand yourself alone, it also requires that you understand how you interact with other people.
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Table of Contents |
Preface
1. Aspects of Teaching
2. The Real Learning Curve
3. A Basic Overview of the Consciousness
4. Staying Neutral
5. Making Mistakes
6. Mentoring
7. Leadership
8. Teaching or Training?
9. The Ability to Explain
10. Examples
11. Giving Information
12. Receiving Information
13. Integration
14. Bouncing It Back Out
15. Listening
16. Teaching and the Pathways
17. Experience
18. Be Respectful
19. Talk with Them, Not at Them
20. Un-learning
21. Cutting Corners
22. Leave Your Personal Agenda at the Door
23. Cutting Them Off
24. Don’t Overwhelm!
25. They’re Not with You Anymore
26. "I'm going to keep asking you the same basic question until you tell me what I want to hear"
27. Pitfalls
28. Praise
29. Going Overboard
30. Influence
31. Stay Present with What Is Happening
32. Participation
33. Attention Seeking
34. For the Good of One … or for the Good of All?
35. Information and Awareness
36. Putting You in Your Place
37. Holding Your Ground
38. Class Concerns
39. Taking It in Deeper, or Spreading It Around?
40. Teaching within a Lecture
41. Lesson Plans
42. Spiritual Classes
43. Whole Awareness
44. Giving In
45. You’re There to Teach the Material, Not Talk About Yourself
46. Normal
47. Imposing Your Will
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Excerpt |
Preface
Energetic Dynamics apply to everything, including group dynamics. For example, as each person uses the Defense System, sliding in and out of the five defense Characterologies, so does a group consciousness. Understanding Self is where everyone begins, but when you actively and consciously choose to work with a group of people, understanding the dynamics of that group consciousness now becomes an added personal responsibility, therefore an added level of personal evolvement is required.
Teaching may be considered a "job," but it is an important job when it comes to self-discovery, personal development and self-awareness. Teaching is another level in both witnessing, and working with your Self. It is a direct mirror for your ability to become more evolved in your conscious awareness, your Higher Self. Most people use the skill of teaching simply as a job, but the ability to Be a teacher is not just a job. It involves your willingness to mature beyond just your individuated Self, your willingness to See yourself at a deeper level, and your ability to evolve your Intuitive Self.
Group dynamics is a fascinating way to understand human evolution better, and if you work with a group, it is a fabulous way to develop, or mature, your Self. This book is written to give some insight into group dynamics and the process of teaching. No matter what format the teaching takes, a corporate environment, a grade school, collegiate environment, private sessions, independent classes, workshops or even a healing school, the process of teaching and learning goes through similar energetic dynamics. This book goes over some basic explanations that occur within these dynamics.
When a person stands up in front of group and claims that they have something to teach, this is a very serious step in personal development. Unfortunately many who take this step are not quite evolved into this depth of personal evolution. Teaching is not simply talking at people, passing on information, quoting, reading something out loud to a group, routine training, or "sharing" information. Teaching is also not about getting in front of a group and talking about yourself, or telling some story. None of these describe what happens in True teaching, but all of them are common distortions of the Teaching Process.
Here's to all that do teach. Here's to all that hold themselves back, but are more than capable of going onto the next level of evolvement in their lives-teaching. And here's to all seeking to understand the energetic dynamics behind the process of teaching and learning at a deeper level. Here's to the courage of going onward.
Blue Dolphin Publishing, 2007