Sunday, October 26, 2008

#57 The 5Rhythms: An Organic Map of Life - Dancing with Kathy Altman,part 1

We are begining our exploration of  5Rhythms – a moving meditation, a dance without steps; a practice introduced in the early 1970s by Gabrielle Roth. We invite you for an insightful conversation with a long-time 5Rhythms practitioner and an elder of the tradition, Kathy Altman.

As Co-Director of The Moving Center School, Kathy was the first person asked to help Gabrielle bring her work out into the world. Over the past 20 years Kathy’s teaching has brought thousands of people back to the joy of their own, original movement. Using dance as the medium, Kathy illuminates for her students “as on the dance floor, so in life”. She is devoted to inspiring people to live the teachings of presence, patience and practice long after the music ends.

In this episode, we touch upon the following topics:

  • Kathy’s story – how she met Gabrielle Roth and started 5Rhythms
  • What is 5Rhythms? Wave-like patterns.
    • Completely organic, nothing imposed. Practice of recognition.
    • Everything in nature moves in wave-like patterns. 5Rhythms is a map of wave-like patterns.
    • Whole life as a wave.
    • Fractal – wave inside a wave
  • Arman’s perspective
    • The goal of “normal” dance classes is to teach you how to move “right”
    • The goal of 5Rhythms class is exactly the opposite. You come with your own patterns, and the goal is to let them go.
  • A dance without steps
    • It’s a training of listening, not responding
    • Dementia and dance
    • 2 things help: crossword puzzles and dancing without steps
    • 5Rhythms for seniors
    • It’s not about how you are physically fit. It’s not about how you move, it’s whether you move.
  • Music in 5Rhythms
    • Music is a crutch, a seduction into the dance
    • This is a moving meditation practice, where the pillow is the music
    • Responding to music we don’t like – breaking away from the comfort zone
    • How can I respond to what is not comfortable?
  • Dance no matter what
    • No matter how bad I feel, can I dance that?

Sunday, October 19, 2008

#56 Positive Deviance with Marshall Thurber, part 3


“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”

Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,
World-renowned scholar and futurist

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

In today’s episode, we touch upon the following topics:

  • Constructing the games
    • Starting with a theory
    • Game has to have a foreshadowing, a great theory, integrity, and come through fast
    • The Accounting Game
    • How to use the same principles to teach concepts to little kids?
  • Positive Deviant Network – comparing to NLP modeling.
    • “Empowergy” – Marshall’s company
    • 99% is under the bell curve; progress is made by people outside the bell curve. Systematizing what Positive Deviants do.
  • Emergence in PDN
    • Cooperation, but no control. Connections are weak ties.

[techtags: Marshall Thurber, Buckminster Fuller, Convergence, Abundance, Novelty, Risk, Sharing, Business, Dynamic Value, DyVal, Positive Deviant, Positive Deviant Network, PDN]

Are you a Positive Deviant?

This may be the single most important activity
you can do for yourself and your career!

What is POSITIVE DEVIANCE?

Positive Deviant Theory - Bell Curve

Deviance is the distance someone or something is from the center of the bell curve. Almost all wealth and positive change comes from .1% of all human beings. It always has and always will be that way.

That one person in a thousand thinks and acts very differently. You can confirm or learn about positive deviancy right here. If you would like a FREE twelve page report on How Positive Deviancy and Network Science Can Speed Your Success by Ten to Twenty Times, register now using our easy sign-up form below.

Throughout the world, there are a few “positive deviant” individuals whose uncommon behaviors or practices enable them to outperform or find better solutions to pervasive problems, even though they share the same resource base as their associates. They consistently identify and exploit existing resources to provide unique solutions (Dynamic Value or DyVal)

Sunday, October 12, 2008

#55 Positive Deviance with Marshall Thurber, part 2

“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”
Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,
World-renowned scholar and futurist

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

In today’s episode, we touch upon the following topics:

  • Pattern recognition
    • Structural vs. cyclical change
    • No high-tech without high touch
    • “Twoness”
  • Openness to novelty
    • How to be open?
    • Story about Bucky Fuller – God makes no mistakes
    • The broken game (archistruction)
  • Games – bringing the experience and fun into the training
    • Risk vs. Risky – the Land of Abundance game, making the point. The first 15%
    • Amount of waste – 40% of waste in US business

[techtags: Marshall Thurber, Buckminster Fuller, Convergence, Abundance, Novelty, Risk, Sharing, Business, Dynamic Value, DyVal]

Are you a Positive Deviant?

This may be the single most important activity
you can do for yourself and your career!

What is POSITIVE DEVIANCE?

Positive Deviant Theory - Bell Curve

Deviance is the distance someone or something is from the center of the bell curve. Almost all wealth and positive change comes from .1% of all human beings. It always has and always will be that way.

That one person in a thousand thinks and acts very differently. You can confirm or learn about positive deviancy right here. If you would like a FREE twelve page report on How Positive Deviancy and Network Science Can Speed Your Success by Ten to Twenty Times, register now using our easy sign-up form below.

Throughout the world, there are a few “positive deviant” individuals whose uncommon behaviors or practices enable them to outperform or find better solutions to pervasive problems, even though they share the same resource base as their associates. They consistently identify and exploit existing resources to provide unique solutions (Dynamic Value or DyVal)

Sunday, October 5, 2008

#54 Positive Deviance with Marshall Thurber, part 1

“Marshall Thurber is an evolutionary event in our time”
Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller,
World-renowned scholar and futurist

Marshall Thurber is a successful attorney, real estate developer, editor, businessman, educator, scholar, inventor, negotiator, author, visionary and public speaker.

A list of his students includes such success stories as Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, the founder and creator of Paul Mitchell hair products, Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese, Tony Robbins, Harv Eker, and Robert Kiyosaki (author of Rich Dad Poor Dad).

In today’s episode, we touch upon the following topics:

  • Biggest picture – the Universe (looking for patterns)
    • No straight lines in the Universe; either converging or diverging
    • Convergence on Earth – because of computers and the Internet
    • Network yields to the power, but ultimately gets rid of it
  • Business needs to be thinking in terms of convergence
    • Profit – filter of information
    • Primary scarcities – time and attention
    • Abundance – US is leading it
    • Converging, sharing, being part of a bigger pie, growing exponentially.
    • Information is going to be free. Sharing is having more – breaking from the paradigm of scarcity.
  • Dynamic Value
    • Value = Quality / Price
    • Pet rock – fad, because there was no opportunity cascade
    • Create value that people are willing to exchange for money; more valuable than the money they have.
    • Value will be more intangible.
    • Technology and education

[techtags: Marshall Thurber, Buckminster Fuller, Convergence, Abundance, Sharing, Business, Dynamic Value, DyVal]

Are you a Positive Deviant?

This may be the single most important activity
you can do for yourself and your career!

What is POSITIVE DEVIANCE?

Positive Deviant Theory - Bell Curve

Deviance is the distance someone or something is from the center of the bell curve. Almost all wealth and positive change comes from .1% of all human beings. It always has and always will be that way.

That one person in a thousand thinks and acts very differently. You can confirm or learn about positive deviancy right here. If you would like a FREE twelve page report on How Positive Deviancy and Network Science Can Speed Your Success by Ten to Twenty Times, register now using our easy sign-up form below.

Throughout the world, there are a few “positive deviant” individuals whose uncommon behaviors or practices enable them to outperform or find better solutions to pervasive problems, even though they share the same resource base as their associates. They consistently identify and exploit existing resources to provide unique solutions (Dynamic Value or DyVal)