Awareness

RedShift: The Power of Awareness

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What’s Awareness Got To Do With It?

Self-awareness is the RedShift cornerstone and increasingly important for helping individuals and organizations come to terms with the post-crisis connected and conceptual world. RedShift Programs provide a platform for examining negative assumptions and practicing conscious change response. This is accomplished through the practical problem solving, decision making and authentic self-expression that are part of every RedShift consulting, coaching or creative program. An inner shift takes place alongside visible program progress. The result is alignment with successful outcomes, improved outlook and morale, reduced stress and anxiety and acceptance of change.

What

  • Identification and examination of existing, often hidden beliefs, that present experience and direction, (individual, business, organizational and cultural), are the effect of external forces.
  • Uncovering expectations of unwanted situations and challenges underlying resistant, urgent and willful responses to change.
  • Demonstrating how negative change responses set up a fear-failure cycle leading to frustration, stress and feeling powerless.
  • Using RedShift Programs as a staging area for replacing default, negative change responses with new and positive ones that are aligned with desired results and (possibly re-defined or surprising) success outcomes and transformation.

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer

Why?

  • Executives:You can’t grasp, come to terms with or accept power shifts: from seller to buyer, from employer to employee and from centralized controllers to users at the edges. You know that increasing your emotional social and
    Ecologists tell us that natural systems operate at multiple scales. At the macro level there are global biogeochemical cycles, like that for the flow of carbon, where shifts in ratios of elements can be measured not just over the years, but over centuries and geologic ages. The ecosystem of a forest balances the entwined interplay of plant, animal, insect species, down to the bacteria in soil, each finding an ecological niche to exploit, their genes co-evolving together. At the mico-level cycles run through on a scale of millimeters or microns, in just seconds.

    How we perceive and understand all this makes the crucial difference. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” wrote the poet William Blake two centuries ago. “Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees.”

    When it comes to seeing nature, these differences in perception have huge consequence. A polar bear stranded on an ice drift or a vanishing glacier offer powerful symbols of the perils we face from global warming. But the inconvenient truths don’t stop there — only our collective ability to perceive them does. We need to sharpen the resolution and broaden the range of our lens on nature; to see how synthetic chemicals disrupt the cells of an endocrine system as well as the slow rising of ocean levels.

    Our species needs to re-sensitize ourselves to such dynamics in nature, in order to preserve them. We have no sensors nor any innate brain system designed to warn us of the innumerable ways that human activity corrodes our planetary niche. We have to acquire a new sensitivity to an unfamiliar range of threats, beyond those our nervous system’s alarm radar picks up — and learn what to do about them. That’s where ecological intelligence enters the picture.

    “Ecological intelligence” denotes the ability to adapt to our ecological niche. Ecological refers to an understanding of organisms and their ecosystems, and intelligence lends the capacity to learn from experience and deal effectively with our environment . Ecological intelligence lets us apply what we learn about how human activity impinges on ecosystems so as to do less harm and once again to live sustainably in our niche — these days the entire planet.

    Today’s threats demand we hone a new sensibility, the capacity to recognize the hidden web of connections between human activity and nature’s systems, and the subtle complexities of their intersections. This awakening to new possibilities must result in a collective eye-opening, a shift in our most basic assumptions and perceptions, one that will drive changes in commerce and industry as well as in our individual actions and behaviors.- From Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything

    intelligence requires a foundation of self-knowledge and awareness.

  • Small Business Owners:Your goals and objectives have always been about growth and increasing scale and you’re increasingly stressed because investors have pulled back and your quest for capital is thwarted.
  • Solo & Creative Professionals:You can’t reconcile your need for clients and revenue with new market models based on sharing, empathy and generosity.

  • Career Transitioners:You’re unhappy where you are but can’t imagine how you will fit in anywhere else.
  • Marketers:You don’t see the downside to push and interruption methods of reaching people and generating sales leads.

Corresponding RedShift Program: All of them

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