Dear Celia,
Have you ever noticed that just
right after the sun goes down
from the horizon, the sky all of
a sudden bursts into bright
orange color. Last night, the
dark blue ocean was calm as if
it was also mesmerized by the
sunset.
In this newsletter, I will
continue to explore the topic of
leadership and inform you of our
upcoming education
events including our Gestalt
Intro workshop entitled ,
How to Use
Yourself to Have a Better Impact
and Influence in the Work You Do
scheduled for January 21 through
January 25, 2009. Please join
us or send someone. And we are
also here to help your business
succeed with integrity.
May our newsletter inspire you
to become more fully who you are
in order to transform your
organization for the greater
good.
Have an endless summer.
Love & Light,
President
Celia Young & Associates, Inc.
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phone: (949) 388-7882
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Leadership is a
Co-created Reality
At first, it was the credit
crisis. Then, it was the housing
market decline. Now it is the
failing Wall Street. It has
been so easy to find something
to get angry about lately. We
seem to forget the collective
"greed" that we share. The
American economic powerhouse is
built on the circulation
of wealth on paper. We are all
related to this bubble blowing
game. Many of us dream about
cashing in on the growing equity
of our real estate or the gains
and returns on our stock
investment or 401K. "Greed is
good", said the character played
by Michael Douglas in the movie
"Wall Street." Nevertheless,
the crowd is seething to find
someone to blame and the
politicians play into this as
well. In reality, we as the
masses have played a major part
to co-create our own demise.
When in doubt, it is so easy to
stone the leaders. Maybe we
should be angry at ourselves for
blindly following the leaders
that we put up on the pedestal
in the first place. We handed
them their power.
Back in August, watching the
eighty thousand people filled
the Mile High Stadium in Denver
to hear Senator Obama speak;
someone said this was more than
a political campaign. This was
a movement. I could see the
emotional surge on many teary
faces. What did Obama do to
create this energy? The answer
may not all be within him.
Listening to his speech, it
became clear to me that the
world, amidst all the chaos, has
been longing for an orator-kind
of leader who can rally the
crowd and ignite the inner power
of each human being to move
toward a future. This power is
the power of self, power of
vision, and power of the human
spirit. Often we mistakenly
believe that all we need is one
person who can lead us out of
the fire. We look at the
qualifications of the candidate
to see if she or he has the
capability to save us. We ask
our leader to solve the problem
for us. I have not seen too
many leaders who can
single-handedly accomplish this
task but people keep insisting
on living this illusion. What
I believe the world needs is a
leader who can inspire us to
find the "power" and the "light"
within ourselves to solve our
own problems. Besides being an
inspiration, the most effective
leader, whether a CEO or a
president of a country, is the
one who can gather a group of
smart people who are inspired to
do great things. We created the
current economic crisis
together. And we need to have
enough courage and wisdom to get
out of it together as well.
In the opening ceremony for the
2008 summer Olympic game in
Beijing, movie director Jhang
Yee Mu did not have to make a
speech or pound a nail in the
building of the gymnasium or
putting the show together. But
he was able to inspire and
organize people to come together
and perform with such precision
and beauty. The one
undisputable ingredient to
China's success was the pride in
these Chinese performers and the
country. They woke up the pride
in all of us. We are inspired
to find the "leader" within.
Obama has also tapped into that
spirit of aspiration and human
capacity. He painted a clear
picture of who we are, where we
are going and what we are meant
to be. We saw ourselves in that
picture. Whether or not Obama
will become our next president,
he has reminded us what kind of
leaders we can become.
Change comes from finding the
spirit that energizes us to move
and the right picture to move
toward.
Practicing Gestalt enables us to
quiet down in the middle of
chaos and find that clear
picture and energy within to
make a difference as leaders.
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WORKSHOPS
Sponsored by Celia Young &
Associates, Inc.
How To
Use Yourself
HOW TO HAVE A BETTER
IMPACT
AND INFLUENCE IN THE
WORK YOU DO:
An introduction
of Gestalt principles
and their application
January 21 through January
25, 2009
Location: South Orange
County, California
Workshop
Leader: Celia Young,
President & CEO, Celia
Young & Associates, Inc.
Workshop
Co-leader: Deborah
Ranier, Organizational
Development Consultant
In this
modern world we live in, we
spend our most energetic
hours in a day at work.
Regardless of what we do,
most of us want to make a
difference. Our success
often depends on our ability
to impact and influence our
environment effectively.
This workshop is designed to
help participants increase
their effectiveness at work
by introducing to them some
of the basic Gestalt theory,
concepts, methodology and
its application in the work
world.
Workshop Outcome
At the end of the
workshop, participants will
have:
- gained a
keener sense of awareness of
themselves and their
environment in assisting
them to see the choices they
have
- expanded
their ability to make
clearer and more effective
interventions in their work
- learned to
stop getting in the way of
their natural process of
work by trusting their own
and their clients'
experience
- become
bigger than the tools and
techniques they carry
- magnified
who they are, what they
already know and do, in a
more succinct manner.
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