Engaging people, their world, for good
I converse. That is my work: engaging people in their world for good. Specifically for Mom and Dad facing difficulties thinking, getting along, staying healthy.
:- Doug.
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feel good about your work?
What have you done recently that made you feel good about your work?
:- Doug.
To engage you in helping me reflect
The effort is to engage the person in helping me reflect, and so inviting this person to reflect too.
:- Doug.
No more elevator speeches
What do I do? I don’t know; I know less and less everyday. I used to try to come up with elevator speeches, but that is not me. (I am more reflective.)
:- Doug.
Highest aspirations
I am after motivations, especially highest aspirations. How do you want to see your mother treated now? What would you do if you could? What do you think your mother wants now?
:- Doug.
To see my work in the larger flow
I’m seeking to know what I do, to see my work in the larger flow. How do I have a deeper touch on the world’s spinning?
:- Doug.
Your relationship with your mom?
Growing up, what was your relationship to your mom? How has that developed over time?
:- Doug.
You are affected by Mom’s health
Reflection might start with getting people to see how they are affected by Mom’s or Dad’s health, by admitting their own vulnerable confusion and overwhelm, and finding their own role in the matter.
:- Doug.
a higher level and power
Reflection together is a higher level and power of conversation. It takes more exploration and work to get there.
:- doug.
Helping Dad care for Mom
I am helping Dad care for Mom, and still be able to eat and live at home. But more, I am helping families come to terms with each other and with Mom’s new normal.
In the community I am helping folks come to terms with their own deaths and preferences around that, and with getting families to come together. Especially in the sacred intimacy of strangers.
Beyond this my community work could get people reflecting together (T4) around What are our responsibilities to and for our elders?
:- Doug.
I get to ask, “How?”
I get to ask, “How?”
How do we care for Mom and Dad
When thinking becomes difficult?
Walking? Eating? Taking medicines?
I get to ask this of families
And of communities
:- Doug.
Living fields
Living fields
Humankind within
Working, learning, beautifying
Inventing the
Living fields
:- Doug.
Getting to help
I get to help people in the crises of nursing home, long-term illness, and death. This is very fulfilling because I get to do much good.
:- Doug.
Getting Mom or Dad in the nursing home
I get to help people get Mom or Dad in the nursing home for good. I’ll let you reflect on what way I might have meant.
:- Doug.
The great quaking
The great quaking we are going through is the struggle of something old against approaching death, something old that is refusing to go gently, punching the air and thrashing out in all directions.
:- Doug.
A more complex way of processing
Reflection is the definition of human, and the respirational method explains why it is useful to encourage groups to give themselves the opportunity of going to smaller groups, rather than staying always in a committee of the whole. This way we get the benefit of a more complex way of processing what we are hearing, saying, and seeing.
:- Doug.
Is not to prepare a Power of Attorney
To prepare a Power of Attorney
Is not to only prepare a Power of Attorney
It only takes an hour to prepare
And then another hour to
Explore it with you
:- Doug.
Reflection is how we became conscious
Reflection is how we became conscious
We see what we are doing, thinking
Reflection is the only way we can claim we are conscious
Reflection is the definition of conscious
And human
:- Doug.
