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09/04/2019 10:18 am
Deep democracy requires that all voices of a system be heard, and presupposes that all voices represent a need or longing within that system, even if sometimes unskillfully expressed. I’m interested in connecting Arnold Mindell’s Deep Democracy work to how we work with all aspects of a client - in parts and shadow integration work. Mindell worked extensively with deep democracy in dealing with the complex and triggered social issues of race, gender and privilege. Their deep democracy process gives voice to the marginalized members of society as well as those in the mainstream. Deep democracy maintains that every position has power, and every voice has something of value to add to the overall experience and growth of the community .
It has helped me work with teams in conflict, and to listen to the voice of resistance or disruption without being triggered by it (not taking it personally). I try to listen for the longing, the values and needs, beneath the complaint. Even our bodies work like this. Every part of our body is part of the whole. We get messages from it all the time. The sore knee, the repeated infection, the IBS. What messages do our bodies have for us? How willing are we to listen to the pain or disease and hear its voice and act on its request? I certainly don't always listen.
So in working with parts, or aspects of self, there are voices we like and those we don’t. Yet each has power and purpose in it, however unskillfully expressed. I believe our work is to listen deeply to that longing or request hidden behind the triggered response – in ourselves as well as others. To see the power and purpose in it. And re-integrate, re-member, these parts into the whole.
I am interested to hear how others have worked with parts integration and what you have learned.
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28/04/2021 12:23 am
😀 Thank you for sharing. I’m also reading Arnold Mindell. I’m thinking about studying World Work more in the future and would like to do this in a supportive group. So far I haven’t applied Arnold’s work to my inner parts, though I appreciate Amy’s puppets. I mostly work with my inner parts just with self compassion for anything that seems painful and it tends to help. Simple answer I know. I tend not to progress as much as I’d wish however continually inviting more self-compassion does take care of the blocks and obstacles that arise, which are only natural, and it just kinds of melts them away out of my path. I hope the same technology could be used on a social and world level. Just to be so kind to people, all together, many of us helping to be kind, so that eventually the problems dissolve such as hate, fear, greed and violence. It’s ongoing work, it’s alchemy.
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09/04/2019 10:18 am
Deep democracy requires that all voices of a system be heard, and presupposes that all voices represent a need or longing within that system, even if sometimes unskillfully expressed. I’m interested in connecting Arnold Mindell’s Deep Democracy work to how we work with all aspects of a client - in parts and shadow integration work. Mindell worked extensively with deep democracy in dealing with the complex and triggered social issues of race, gender and privilege. Their deep democracy process gives voice to the marginalized members of society as well as those in the mainstream. Deep democracy maintains that every position has power, and every voice has something of value to add to the overall experience and growth of the community .
It has helped me work with teams in conflict, and to listen to the voice of resistance or disruption without being triggered by it (not taking it personally). I try to listen for the longing, the values and needs, beneath the complaint. Even our bodies work like this. Every part of our body is part of the whole. We get messages from it all the time. The sore knee, the repeated infection, the IBS. What messages do our bodies have for us? How willing are we to listen to the pain or disease and hear its voice and act on its request? I certainly don't always listen.
So in working with parts, or aspects of self, there are voices we like and those we don’t. Yet each has power and purpose in it, however unskillfully expressed. I believe our work is to listen deeply to that longing or request hidden behind the triggered response – in ourselves as well as others. To see the power and purpose in it. And re-integrate, re-member, these parts into the whole.
I am interested to hear how others have worked with parts integration and what you have learned.
Kesley reacted
28/04/2021 12:23 am
😀 Thank you for sharing. I’m also reading Arnold Mindell. I’m thinking about studying World Work more in the future and would like to do this in a supportive group. So far I haven’t applied Arnold’s work to my inner parts, though I appreciate Amy’s puppets. I mostly work with my inner parts just with self compassion for anything that seems painful and it tends to help. Simple answer I know. I tend not to progress as much as I’d wish however continually inviting more self-compassion does take care of the blocks and obstacles that arise, which are only natural, and it just kinds of melts them away out of my path. I hope the same technology could be used on a social and world level. Just to be so kind to people, all together, many of us helping to be kind, so that eventually the problems dissolve such as hate, fear, greed and violence. It’s ongoing work, it’s alchemy.
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