Rich Watkins

We are all trying to get things done and it's a mess 💎🥁💫 🌊🌱supporting good collaboration @letsgohq and exploring aliveness for me and us

[Rich Watkins @Letsgorich]

At @SD_LDF I talked about how we can create momentum in collaborative projects - and if you liked the taste of it then my TEDx is a good compliment on the dynamics of groups and how we can have better conversations #sdff2019 #sdff https://t.co/L3RQxF6YjT

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@dthorson @RomeoStevens76 Perhaps my whole thread could be summarised: I wish powerful practices did more to honour their ancestors and cousins, and less chest-beating around origniality

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@dthorson @RomeoStevens76 It doesn't at all negate that - but it's the whole field thats the art, not Circling® - and that field extends way back in time to human potential movement encounter groups and gestalt groups. The freshness of the field is because all good fields practiced well are always fresh.

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@dthorson @RomeoStevens76 @nosilverv This is a brand not a field of practice https://t.co/ClfFyq9icV

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@dthorson @RomeoStevens76 @nosilverv Maybe I mean, the innovation is overstated. It’s a beautiful art and a practice but it didn’t come from nowhere - and I can’t quite get the taste out of my mouth from when I heard the circling institute (?) started threatening practitioners with trademark infringement.

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@dthorson @RomeoStevens76 @nosilverv It’s gestalt therapy groups rebranded and recontextualised - not sure it counts as discovery or creation - it’s a marketing not product win

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You are not cured when you can say: “Now I can tell a complete story about myself!” ... The point is not to ease your suffering, but to move out of these categories ... and, to discover things .... that are more important than your suffering or pleasure.” Slavoj Žižek

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“Lacan says that the obsession to know oneself is in itself a pathology — for him, the opposition of knowing oneself is not just to act intuitively, it’s something different. His point is that instead of probing into yourself, dedicate yourself to an external cause...

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[Rich Watkins @Letsgorich]

@MarysRoommate @QiaochuYuan My take: people are talking an unspoken position on what “a being” is and pattern matching from that - depending on their position it either seems more like it “is” or “isn’t”. Wrote a practically unread article on it: https://t.co/LcAJhZbLwE

[Rich Watkins @Letsgorich]

@MarysRoommate @QiaochuYuan I think it’s not that it is but that it might be - new experience/capabilities are opening up - so rushing to decide it definitely isn’t and can’t be seems like a locked position. Isn’t the truth more like we don’t know yet, even if our take is that it seems very unlikely?

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@QiaochuYuan 100% unsettles our concepts - for me we are asking for gladiatorial assessment 👍👎 without exploring the way we are looking at what “a being” even is… sharing my take (6 philosophical perspectives on being) which took months to write for 3 likes 😇 https://t.co/LcAJhZbLwE

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@RichDecibels suggestion via DM

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I reference Alan Fiske's #RelationalModelsTheory and Dr Betty Martin's #WheelOfConsent (that I found via Adam @we_togetherness as well as @whatweallagree1 and @GreaterGoodSC

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Some thoughts on generosity:

"My thesis goes something like this: we should move away from seeing generosity as a trait (“a generous person”) or an act (“a generous gift”). Instead, I want to look at generosity as a kind of transformational context..."

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2. that genuine generosity transforms who we are, not just what we have

3. that generosity can only survive with boundaries and clean requests

4. that choosing generosity requires courage.

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@IonaItalia Two opposing processes that are both alive moment to moment

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@IonaItalia The model of grief that is used more now is called the “dual process model” where you are swept between loss orientation and restoration orientation in unpredictable waves - the oscillations tend to become less dramatic over time but can still sweep you this way and that

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@louisvarge By the time I left Shanghai i had to unlearn the habit of getting a server by screaming FUYAN across the restaurant

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@jonnym1ller How to get things going with people (collaboration) would be my contribution - and I’ve got framework and tools used with 10s of thousands of leaders developed over a decade

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@sudoingX What’s my best Hermes setup option for a 32gb MacBook m1? I’m assuming I need to supplement with something from cloud. I’ve got ollama running glm-4.7-flash