Radical living
One of the people in my workshop today with an esteemed Fortune 100 company responded to my introduction to appreciative organizations with the observation that this is something they never do - focus on their strengths and passions. He was both shocked and inspired by the idea that an organization should focus on the appreciative side of life.
What’s interesting is that for the hundreds of people I’ve exposed to the appreciative model, no one pushes back with resistance. We all seem to have this intrinsic appetite to focus on appreciative nature of things.
It is still radical, this bias for our strengths and passions that invites us to fearlessly let go of suffering in all its forms and all its causes. Embracing commitment to joy continues to be the most daring act of the heart.
April 29th, 2005 15:49
I like that… “Embracing commitment to joy continues to be the most daring act of the heart.” This is good. This is true. It takes so much more courage to creatively envision something that is not currently real than it does to analyze or criticize something that currently exists.
April 29th, 2005 21:26
Good point Sarah; as your business and life expresses, seeing possibility definitely uses more imagination than criticism. “What’s possible?” is surely a different question than “What’s wrong?”