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Relating Inner To Outer, Now to Longer Arc

I participated in a group this morning — about 35 people on Zoom. The organizers are thoughtful people from the Center for Purposeful Leadership.

Their prompts today for small group discussion included:
– how to navigate in disrupting times?
– how to proceed grounded in love?

This map above, NILO, is one that I created a few years back, and that I continue to find helpful for such prompts. I suppose because I need nuance.

The basic map brings things into relationship. What is inner is also connected to what is outer. And vice versa. What is happening now is also connected to what is longer arc, both forward and backward.

Relevance today for these CPL prompts is that it helps to have good company to explore disruption both inner AND outer. And, also, to explore things that are well cohered both inner AND outer. Likewise to explore the patterns of disruption and coherence that are visible now, yet ALSO visible in the longer arc. It all helps to see the bigger view, and, to get meaningful insight / choice of action.

I felt simple in this call. Good simple. Clear simple. Which is / was so acutely my inner need this morning.

I’m glad for maps that bring view of the whole and of the parts.

4 Replies to “Relating Inner To Outer, Now to Longer Arc”

  2. This particularly resonated with me today, so thank you, Tenneson, for sharing it. It’s all too easy for me to operate in the outer/now and miss insights and opportunities to see a bigger picture.

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