#49 Transforming Business and Life with David Neenan, part 1

David Neenan is the creator of the pioneering Archistruction(R) process for planning, designing, and managing building construction projects. As president of The Neenan Company, he has combined leading-edge information processing and design methods and innovative “people” approaches to reengineer how the construction process works from conception to completion. His company uses the Archistruction methods to design and costruct office, medical, retail, and light industrial buildings for clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region from offices in Fort Collins, Denver, and Colorado Springs. David is also a nationally recognized seminar leader, keynode speaker, business consultant, and the author of books such as “Evergreen” and “No Excuses: be the hero of your own life”. He has produced his “Business & You” and other seminars in Colorado, Hawaii, California, Texas, Vermont, Taiwan, Sweden, Moscow, and Siberia. He and his wife, Sharon, live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Changing Schools
  • Most beloved and hated man in town
  • Dealing with the School District – introducing superlearning into schools
• Observing the Observer
  • Handling opposition – Separate the observer from what is being observed
  • Observe the observer you are – learn from it
• Solving business problems – it’s about changing your life
• Confucius story
  • Always expect the unexpected
• Learning organization
  • vs. fighting or sleeping organizations
• Discover your magnifiscence in a breakdown
• Existentialism
  • I’m born free, make choices from my freedom
  • Responsibility – accountable for my decisions
  • Anxiety – the elixir of life
  • Evil
  • Death
• Taking responsibility
  • Patterns – what stops people, and what helps them to break through
  • If you have a problem, your options:
    • You can change yourself
    • You can change the system
    • You can get out
    • You can choose to suffer (99% of unconscious choice)
  • If you think your leader sucks, look in the mirror
  • Setting the right expectations
  • Biggest mistake in starting a company – thinking that everyone is like me
• Hiring is a crap shoot

[techtags: David Neenan, Archistruction, Business, Existentialism]

#48 The State of Flow

Flow is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity. Proposed by positive psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, the concept has been widely referenced across a variety of fields.
Colloquial terms for this or similar mental states include: to be on the ball, in the zone, or in the groove. (Wikipedia).

This episode covers the following topics:

• What is flow?
  • Our experiences of flow for the first time
  • Arman – high school math team
  • Sergey – dance, since being a kid
  • M – flow is magic; martial arts – after a lot of training
• What is the structure to your flow?
  • Self-modeling (as opposed to modeling someone else)
  • Common components:
    • Resonance
    • Time distortion
    • Elite performance
• Building the capacity for holding the flow
• How and when to apply the flow?

[techtags: flow, zone, peak state, elite performance, groove, resonance, time distortion]

#47 The Alchemy of Voice series 02: The Embodied Voice, part 2

We are continuing our conversation with Maniko – an accomplished musician and signer, personal voice coach, workshop facilitator, and a really wonderful person.

She has extensive professional and experiential training in expressive arts therapies, emotional release and integration, meditative disciplines as well as dance, movement and resonance awareness as vehicles for bridging the worlds of spiritual development, personal integration and authentic self-expression.

Maniko’s websites: TempleOfSong.com and VoxMastery.com.

This episode includes the following topics:

• Voice and Culture
• How one can explore this?
  • Just let your voice soar
  • Contextualized vs. everyday practice
• Range – knowing what’s available for me
  • Expand and relax back, gradually.
  • Physical movement, tonal movement, language movement, and silence – these are all our faculties
• Speaking and singing voice – make your talk sing
• Waking up the dead – voice in corporate world
• Tuning in to the heart of the listener
• Speaking to difficult audiences
• Tuning in – taking it across contexts
• Life as music – how do we sing it?
  • When something turns you on – stop and listen, pay attention
• Thank you!

Maniko’s songs used in this episode:

• And Now
• Just like this

[techtags: Voice, Embodied Voice, Alchemy of Voice, Maniko, Self-Expression]

#46 The Alchemy of Voice series 01: The Embodied Voice, part 1

Today, we are introducing you to Maniko Dru Dadigan – an accomplished musician and signer, personal voice coach, workshop facilitator, and a really wonderful person.

She has extensive professional and experiential training in expressive arts therapies, emotional release and integration, meditative disciplines as well as dance, movement and resonance awareness as vehicles for bridging the worlds of spiritual development, personal integration and authentic self-expression.

Maniko’s websites: TempleOfSong.com and VoxMastery.com.

This episode includes the following topics:

• Singing voice – connecting to heart
• Terror of your own magnificence
• Building a “soul muscle”
  • Dance, singing and silence
  • Working from within – with person’s own material
• Standing up for what is true
• Listening to others
• Finding your own path – knowing your calling
• Leaving your legacy
• Maniko’s approach
  • You are already a miracle
  • Start with the body & breath
  • Get the voice moving – no content, just resonant richness
  • When things happen – write it down (so many songs came out from that)
  • State of loving awareness
  • Whole person integration
  • It stops being a problem – it becomes a fuel for creativity
  • Honoring what is
  • Release to your genuine self-expression
  • Purely experiential
• Resonant voice gives birth to the myth and mysticism

Maniko’s songs used in this episode:

• Nature of Things
• Ishq Allah

[techtags: Voice, Embodied Voice, Alchemy of Voice, Maniko, Self-Expression]

Quite An Interesting experiement - try it and be ready to change/be disoriented :) in a good way

Beliefs Unlimited Exercise

This exercise is useful when one attempts to move beyond one’s
current belief structures. Record the the following in a soothing and
authoritative manner five times into a tape recorder.
(start of belief unlimited tape)

#45 Embodied Mythology Series 06: The Lover's Journey with PaulRebillot, 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 podcast , we discuss with Paul the Lover’s Journey – the structure he has introduced in the previous episode.

• Hermes and the Dance of Transformation
  • Dedication to Gods
  • Story of the Dance of Transformation
• What is the essense of femininity and masculinity?
• Polarity, Acceptance, and Love
• Feminine-Masculine duality and universal human being
• Body Armor, Rolfing (see also Wikipedia entry)
• Somatics – applications in healing
  • Martial Arts – destructive / protective way. What are the healing applications?
• From Body to Heart to Mind

[techtags: Myth, Mythology, Hero’s Journey, Lover’s Journey, Paul Rebillot]