[Neurons] 2009 Meta Reflections #23

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2009 Meta Reflections #23

June 1, 2009

 

 

 

THE SELF-ACTUALIZATION FOCUS

 

 

I did an interview a few days ago for a radio program here in Canada and
many questions were about self-actualization and the actualization trainings
that I’m doing these days—the Unleashing of Health Potentials; the
Unleashing of Your Wealth Potentials, etc.  “What is Self-Actualization?”
“Why Self-Actualization?”  “What do you know that you have actualized a
potential?”  “What are the signs or clues of the self-actualizing life?”

 

Later another person at the training asked about the new series of
Self-Actualization trainings.  First he wanted to know what workshops were
already available and their focus.  Later when several others were asking
the same questions, I thought it might be good to recapitulate the current
workshops on Self-Actualization.

1) The Unleashing of Potential: the Ultimate Self-Actualization Workshop.
The process of how we can unleash potentials through the Construct, the
Crucible and the Zone.  The design is to develop the ability to unleash at
least one potential and to learn the process.  If you can unleash one and
know how, then you can unleash many!

2) Creativity and Innovation.  Self-actualization unleashes each person’s
creativity, first to create oneself and then to create one’s expression of
uniqueness in the world.  Within a business or community, this leads to
creative products and services.  To facilitate that there’s four
conversations. It begins with a well-formed outcome, then a well-formed
problem to creatively solve; then a well-formed solution, and finally a
well-formed innovation.

3) Unleashing Leadership.  Creative organizations do not just happen, they
are led, they are created.  Self-actualizing companies are created by
self-actualizing leaders with a vision for self-actualization throughout the
company at all levels by all people.  Then the company becomes a great place
to work and full of people tapping into their human capital of intelligence
and creativity.  And that will unleash the company from most of the problems
that plagues companies today— low satisfaction, engagement, and retention by
employees, little loyalty by customers or shareholders, poor quality of
products and services, etc.

 

Next he wanted to know more about the self-actualization focus.  Why this
focus?  Where will it lead?  And of course, the answer goes back to the
“secret” history of NLP as part of the Human Potential Movement —that the
NLP Presuppositions that came through Satir and Perls originated with Maslow
and Rogers.  This means that self-actualization actually is the larger frame
of NLP.  So while I used to think that NLP was about “running your own
brain” so that you could manage your state, there’s a much larger frame.
Running our own brain is only one aspect of unleashing our potentials.
There is much more.

 

Maslow’s modeling of the bright side of human nature was the first modeling
project of excellence in human beings from the psychological perceptive.
Forty-five years before Bandler or Grinder began modeling Fritz Perls or
Virginia Satir, Maslow was modeling Max Wertheimer and Ruth Benedict and
then hundreds and then later, thousands of self-actualizing people.

 

So why self-actualization?  Because that’s the ultimate objective of all NLP
processes—to make real (actualize) our highest values, visions, and talents.
And when we do that, we facilitate the process of making our lives richly
meaningful and effective.  The content is up to each person; the structure
of meaningful performances and performing meaningfully is the heart of
Neuro-Semantics and why both Neuro-Semantics and Self-Actualization fits
onto the Meaning / Performance Axes.

 

So the self-actualization focus enables us to take any particular area and
ask the meaning— performance questions.  We can do this with creating wealth
or health, we can do this with developing leadership or coaching skills, we
can do with relationship or business goals.  Think of anything and the twin
axes of meaning and performance govern it being richly meaningful:




I.                   What does this mean to you?  What is the richest
meaning you could give it?

II.                What actions enable you to live out these meanings fully?

III.             What’s your vision and value in these actions?

IV.             What is the next level of competency to develop that will
give you even more ability to translate the meaning into life?

 

The self-actualization focus is the very focus of Neuro-Semantics because
the bottom line is that of actualizing in performance the meanings
(semantics) that we create in our minds.  Are you ready to do what you know?


 

To your highest and best!

 

 

 

 

Self-Actualizing Leaders and Companies --- 11-13 December 2009  Italy 

 

Contact details  -- phone, email

Nicola Riva and Lucia Giovannini

mobile: +39 348 5600507

nicola at blessyou.it

 

 

City Hotel --- north central Italy

Hotel Donatello

http://www.imolahotel.it/english.aspx

Via Rossini, 25

I-40026 Imola BO

 

The international airport is Bologna (http://foxyurl.com/4qg 25 miles away),

or Forlì (http://foxyurl.com/4qf 27 miles away) if you fly with some low
costs (like Windjet, Cimber Air, ...).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

International Society of Neuro-Semantics

Meta-Coach Training System

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