Sunday, September 26, 2010

#148 Swimming with Dolphins - Power - conversations with Paul Kordis,part 11

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

  • Economy
    • If we work less, we may have higher quality of life
    • From deadlines to lifelines
    • From maximizing profit to maximizing value
    • Spreading ideas
  • Power
  • Holy and Unholy Trinity: Economy, Religion, Politics

Sunday, September 19, 2010

#147 Swimming with Dolphins - Mirror Neurons & Social Capital -conversations with Paul Kordis, part 10

We are continuing our Swimming with Dolphins series of conversations with Dr. Paul Kordis. Check back to the complete series.

Paul has been researching writing, and speaking to groups for over 20 years about the processes of profound change. He is a globally traveled speaker and seminar leader on futuristic, human development, change and other topics. He received his Ph.D. degree (with honors) in human capital and economic development from Colorado State University in May, 2008.

His 1,500-page dissertation is entitled “The Superhighway to Serfdom: How False-Social-Norms Marketing is Hijacking the American Dream.” He is a co-author (with Dudley Lynch) of the books The Strategy of the Dolphin: Scoring a Win in a Chaotic World, which has become a best seller, and Code of the Monarch: A Guide to the Real Global Business Revolution. He is also the author (with his wife, Susan) of the book Name Your Passion: A User’s Guide to Finding Your Personal Purpose.

Today’s conversation touches upon the following topics:

  • Social Capital
    • Economic ladder
    • Social capital – doing business is a social process
    • Context and environment is important
  • Mirror Neurons
    • Empathy – mixing rich and poor makes rich want to help, if only not to feel the poor’s pain
  • Rapport, Brain and Autism
    • Rapport – maching & mirroring – it’s a tool, the difference in application
    • Autism – a disfunction of mirror neurons
    • Monkey moving the cursor
  • Disconnect of empathy in our society
    • Manipulation is not always bad

Sunday, September 12, 2010

#146 Embodied Mythology Series 15: The Holy Grail with Paul Rebillot,part 3

We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.

In this episode, Paul continues the discussion about the myth of the Holy Grail.

The topics covered in this talk are:

  • Levels of Spiritual Quest
  • Which myth is right for me?
  • What is a myth?
  • Multiple cultures
    • The American myths

Sunday, September 5, 2010

#145 Embodied Mythology Series 14: The Holy Grail with Paul Rebillot,part 2

We are continuing our conversations with our teacher and friend Paul Rebillot on the topic of the Healing Theatre – the combination of acting and drama, mythology, gestalt therapy, and rituals. For more information about Paul and his work, please visit his website – Direct Impact Creativity.

In this episode, Paul describes the structure based on the myth of the Holy Grail.

The topics covered in this talk are:

  • The Structure
  • “What’s troubling you, my uncle?”
    • Instead of giving an answer, ask a question
    • Instead of solving each other’s problems, listen and make it possible for them to solve it
    • Giving power to the person, rather than power over them
  • Staying present
  • Accepting the Symbolic