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Transformational InquiryChange from the Root of Your Being
Welcome to Transformational Inquiry
Transformational InquiryChange from the Root of Your Being
The Need
Transformational InquiryChange from the Root of Your Being
There is a clear consensus that the future now emerging will be extremely different from anything we have ever
known in the past. It is a difference not of degree but of kind. There is no prior
period of change that remotely resembles what humanity is about to experience. We have gone through
revolutionary periods of change before, but none as powerful or as pregnant with the fraternal twins—peril and opportunity—as the ones that are
beginning to unfold. Nor have we ever experienced so many revolutionary
changes unfolding simultaneously and converging with one another.
Al Gore: The Future
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Earth, Inc: Global economy knit together by multinational
corporations.
Global Mind: Instant global communication.
Decline of US Power: Loss of a credible international mediator and power
broker.
Unsustainable Growth: Misguided and confused expansion of human energies.
Reinvention of Life: New technologies have put evolution in human hands.
Climate Change: Potential catastrophic loss of earth ecosystems.
Al Gore: The Future
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Cognitive Threshold
Gridlock
Beliefs supersede Facts
IncreasingComplexity
Mental & EmotionalComplexitySpiritual Simplicity
Rebecca Costa:The Watchman’s
Rattle
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Einstein: ”We cannot solve our problems with the same level of
thinking that created them.”
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Technical Change
vs. Adaptive Change
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Technical Change: May require new
skills, but solutions are
known.E.g.: brain
surgery, landing an airplane
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Adaptive Change:Requires a new
way of knowing, a new mindset.e.g.: personal
responsibility; gay marriage
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Adaptive Change occurs when we challenge and
expand our Core Beliefs.
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Adaptive Changeis the work of
Faith Communities
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Effective Action for our New World
Community Stories
Core Beliefs Assumptions
Archetypes/Myths
PracticesTheology
Work of the Church Transformational
Inquiry
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Churches and other faith
communities play a pivotal role
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Churches “own” the
great meaning-making
stories of Western
Civilization.
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We are invited to transform people at their core.
Transformational InquiryChange from the Root of Your Being
We have Time
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Vision: Churches Leading
deep, adaptive change for the
coming Age
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The question is
HOW?
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Immunity to Change
Robert Kegan &Lisa Lahey
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Transformational Inquiry adapts Immunity-to-Change to the Faith context
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Transformational Inquiry helps develop:
•Mental Complexity•Emotional Resilience
•Spiritual Simplicity
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Example
Column 1Noble Commitment
(Improvement Goal)
Column 2Doing or not doing
instead?
Column 3 Hidden Competing
Commitments:
Column 4 Big Assumptions
Core Beliefs
Worry Box
DynamicImmunity To Change
Transformational Inquiry
Brilliant!!
Self-Protective Commitment
Stop trying to please
everyone.
I seek out people that
need my help.People might
not like me any more or want to
be with me.
I am committed to being needed
I assume if people stopped needing me…
- Everyone would desert me & I
would be alone
- My life would be unbearable
- I would die of sadness
CompetingCommitment
The Hell I want to avoid
“For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I
do.” (Romans 7:15)
What I’m doing or not
doing instead
Noble CommitmentThe Heaven I
want to create
Dynamic ImmunityTo Change
Summary
CompetingCommitments
Noble Commitments
Dynamic ImmunityTo Change
Hidden Hidden Big Big
AssumptioAssumptionsns
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Opportunities for Faith
Communities
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• Small groups• Work on major life
issues • Existing community
of trust• Know one another
well• Dive more deeply
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“Growing Up” our Big Assumptions
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A Taste of the Possible:
Natural Safe Tests
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Other Tools
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• Observing the Big Assumption in action•Write a History of the
Big Assumption •Safe Tests: Natural and
Constructed• Writing into Fear
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• Psychodrama• TheWork of Byron
Katie• A weekly practice of mindfulness using the
columns• ITC in the body and
emotions
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OtherApplications
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Personal Evolution: what do I want and
what will I do to avoid
getting it?Resilient Community:
what do we collectively assume that keeps us
from becoming the community we want to
be?
Building a Just World:
how do we avoid getting the
economy we say we want to have?
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Training:Facilitating
Transformational Inquiry in your
Faith Community
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Basic Immunity to Change tools for
your Faith Community
•Confidence•Community
•Support
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June 22-26 St. Andrews
Conference Center
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More Information:
www
.transformationalinquiry.us
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Transformational InquiryChange from the Root of Your Being
Resilient Community: what do we collectively assume that keeps us
from becoming the community we want to
be?
Column 1Noble Commitment(Improvement Goal
Column 2Doing or not doing instead?
Column 3:
Collective Competing Commitments
Column 4:
Collective
Big Assumptions
A journey of spiritual
growth as individuals
and in community.
.
We avoid sharing what we have with
others
Worry Box
-ask questions can’t answer
-Step on toes
- Be Rejected
-They’ll take over
-Target me
-Won’t fit in.
-Our sharing will degenerate
-Won’t like us
-Challenge us
Competing Commitment
Also committed to….
Status quo
Not embarrassed in front of a friend
Seeming normal
Being responsible for how other people feel
Being comfortable
Not changing
Controlling the outcome
We assume if we invited new people…
-We’d cease to exist…lose our identity… lose our community…lose friend, spiritual base, ourselves… couldn’t
recreate what we have.
-I would have failed my church…people won’t like me…I’ll be pushed
out.
- It will make things worse for self and
community.
DynamicImmunity To Change
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Building a Just World:
how do we avoid getting the
economy we say we want to have?
Column 0 Complaint or Frustration
What Shouldn’t Be?
Column 1Noble Commitment(Improvement Goal
Column 2Doing or not doing
instead?
Column 3 Hidden Competing
Commitments:
Column 4 Big Assumptions
Worry Box
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Transformational Inquiry
I won’t earn free airline
miles
Committed to earning miles
to see grandchildren
regularly
I assume if I didn’t see
them regularly…
• bereft• life not worth
living• I may as well
die
The big banks create
massive injustice with their single
minded pursuit of profit
I use my card…
regularly!
I am committed to not using my
big bank credit card
Brilliant!!
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