You have likely been unable to escape hearing a lot of folks bemoaning what a shyte year 2016 has been, and maybe it has but we are now presented with a choice of how we respond.
Do we allow ourselves to sink further into the pit of despair, hatred, separation, and fundamentalism – propelled there by fear, anger blame? Do we continue to disconnect from our environment, from each other and from our selves, do we sleepwalk into a future that most of us don’t want?
Or, do we rise and be part of creating a different future ?
We are at a threshold, and “our mission Jim, should we choose to accept it” is to see 2016 as a profound wake up call, a call to action, not for more of the same, because that is surely how we got here, but to more and different action.
“There has never been a generation on this earth whose collective actions—the stuff we choose to do or not do in 2017 and beyond—will have such a profound impact on the future of our children and our planet.
Let’s not sleepwalk into this year, where so much is at stake, as the leaders of Europe did a hundred years ago when they launched into World War I. This is our moment to wake up to our real intention, to be calm, compassionate, and courageous in environments that will be full of dispute, despair, and delusion.’
The root of the word leadership means “to cross a threshold.” That threshold now is right in front of us…”
Are YOU ready to rise?
If you’re not ready to be challenged and are instead happy with things the way they are then, please, don’t bother read further.
If you are curious about what we can learn from 2106 and how we might play our role in co-creating a future that sucks a lot less, then here’s a few ideas presented in a series of three articles from Otto Sharmer published through HuffPost.
The articles are represented here in reverse order to that in which they were published …
2017 – Trump – Are We Ready To Rise?
On the Making of Trump: The Blind Spot That Created Him
“While psychiatrists everywhere are doing their best to help people, their profession is in crisis”.
John Read, Olga Runciman, Jaqui Dillon.
The DSM “deals in categories, not in pain”
– Dan Siegel MD, Psychiatrist
There are, of course, a great many individuals who do try and when they have some small measure of success it seems they do so because they somehow manage to retain their humanity despite not because of their training and the systems within which they work
It takes about eight years to train to become a psychiatrist yet, it seems, the training they receive leaves them ill-equiped to understand and work with humans in distress.
The training is too often more to do with assigning people to categories and then practising the many subtle and not so subtle ways of coercing people into believing they are the problem than it is about helping people heal.
And the same is trie of the other professions and institutions builded upon the same assumptions and that focus on correcting and managing perceived deficits within an individual’s biology and behaviour.
The word “psychiatry” means “soul healing” yet much of the time, it seems, the institutions of psychiatry and those who follow their teachings are those with both the least interest in and least ability to help us heal our wounded souls.
Read, J., Runciman, O., & Dillon, J. (2016). In search of an evidence-based role for psychiatry. Future Science OA,2(1). doi:10.4155/fsoa-2015-0011
I think I’m done with the sofa
I think I’m done with the hall
I think I’m done with the kitchen table, baby
Let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
Let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
In the moonshine
Take me to the places that I love best
So my angel she says, don’t you worry
about the things they’re saying, yeah
Got no friends in high places
And the game that you gave away
Wasn’t worth playing
Let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
Let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
In the meantime
Take me to the places that I love best
And yes I’ve been bad
Doctor won’t you do with me what you can
You see I think about it all the time
Twenty four seven
You say you want it, you got it
I never really said it before
There’s nothing here but flesh and bone
There’s nothing more nothing more
There’s nothing more
Back to nature, just human nature
Getting on back to
I think I m done with the sofa
I think I m done with the hall
I think I’m done with the kitchen table, baby
Let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can’t say yes
Let’s go outside (let’s go outside)
In the moonshine
Take me to the places that I love best
And yes I’ve been bad
Doctor won’t you do with me what you can
You see I think about it all the time
I’d service the community
(But I already have you see!)
I never really said it before
There’s nothing here but flesh and bone
There’s nothing more, nothing more
There’s nothing more
Let’s go outside
Dancing on the d-train baby
When the moon is high
And the grass is jumpin’
Come on, just keep on funkin’
Keep on funkin’, just keep on funkin’
“Psychiatry is a sham but I find myself using their language because that’s the common language. I think I’ll stop that.
I think it’s the human condition. We get hungry, angry, lonely, tired, sad, scared, and overwhelmed and it colours our outlook, makes us behave differently, see, hear, smell and think differently.
If anything I’ve learned that it’s not a permanent condition, that how I perceive the world changes, that we change, that things do get better.”
I don’t wanna fight, I don’t wanna fight
I don’t wanna fight, I don’t wanna fight
I’m holding on by a thread, I’m held together by tape
I’d love something more permanent, but I don’t wanna raise the stakes
I don’t wanna fight, I don’t wanna fight
I don’t wanna fight, I don’t wanna fight
And what is all this work for but instant satisfaction
Are these seams worth the ache, and all the wasted effort
But we are the chosen few,
We’re born to be pompous, born to be heard
And we love it, don’t we; the famous taste of fame
Begging every jaded journalist to write your name
And we’ll just back down
And the sons, and the doctors, and lawyers’ll get there first
With every love song,
With every lost friend
We scream with mouths shut that
We’ll do better, we’ll do better now
Don’t know what good is
Don’t know what great means
But til’ we find it,
We’ll do better, we’ll do better now
I’m holding on by a thread, I’m held together by tape
I’d love something more permanent, but I don’t wanna raise the stakes
I don’t wanna fight, I don’t wanna fight
I don’t wanna fight, I don’t wanna fight
When everything was hopeful (I don’t wanna fight)
And everything was promised (I don’t wanna fight)
When you believed that people told you (I don’t wanna fight)
You were born to do this (I don’t wanna fight)
Before you planned it out (I don’t wanna fight)
Before you signed the papers (I don’t wanna fight)
Before we realized that (I don’t wanna fight)
Ignorance is so much safer (I don’t wanna fight)
I’m so tired of screaming (I don’t wanna fight)
I’m so tired of wishing (I don’t wanna fight)
That a Cadillac in a cul-de-sac (I don’t wanna fight)
Would be a life worth living (I don’t wanna fight)
Another girl is waiting (I don’t wanna fight)
Hiding in empty space and (I don’t wanna fight)
She is chasing her dreams while
I am chasing all these lines in my face
I don’t wanna die, I don’t wanna die
I don’t wanna die, I don’t wanna die
With every love song,
With every lost friend
We scream with mouths shut that
We’ll do better, we’ll do better now
Don’t know what good is
Don’t know what great means
But til’ we find it,
We’ll do better, we’ll do better now
Another love song (another lost friend)
Another lost friend (We scream with mouth shut that we’ll do better, we’ll
Do better now)
Another love song(Don’t know what good is, don’t know what great means)
We scream with mouth shut that we’ll do better, we’ll do better now
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