A DAY OF DEATH ON THE TUBE .......
....... what sort of human am I today ....... when bombs on tubes leaves my town under a cloud of tension..............
One cannot be but gripped by the enfolding news on such a day - and gratefulness that I am not going by underground this day.
Five words to describe my life at the moment;
anticipation
soulscratched
loved
weepingfor
stretchedwell
...... single and real words don't seem to fit my 5 words brief at the moment.
I want to stretch them as I yearn to communicate.
I remember sitting with the Queen and telling her about the five word answer by Santos who I worked with that week/month.
I didn't have the courage to ask her hers.
We all have five words.
Usually the positive ones come first.
Then there is a deeper google type interior search of the self and a resulting deeper revelation comes through.
Often the latter words are more real than the former.
Often, I find, humans are given so little opportunity by those not prepared to listen.
Or maybe these humans are not sensitised or skilled or tuned to listening?
When someone is really listening - I find that people will take risks and share words of reality.
I am asked to do more training in Team Work/Team Building than anything else.
So I see lots of teams.
'Games People Play' - a book by Eric Berne
&
a good description of teams ............
If we can work at being authentic
being open
sensitive
listening
questioning
being Level Five
........................ a different climate is evident
bonding
cohesive
vulnerability
eyes active
emotional radar - ON
as if the team is physically glued together - hugging each other - kissing each other.
Emotionally
not really the physical because it can be there emotionally without the physical.
BUT
It is beautiful to feel an un-requested massage around your shoulders.
A touch to the arm
a kiss to the cheek
a touch to your foot from another under the table.
Fantastic if a team can hug and kiss - but the bonding can happen without the major physical thing
culture plays a part
but still
and a group be bonded like a honeycomb
rather than
marbles in a jar.
Marbles in a jar make a lot of noise
rattle
take up a lot of space
hardly touch
highly individual
hard
hardly unique
a honeycomb however ................
