BUSINESS WITH HEART
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
(Note: some of these questions were based on the evening presentation format, whilst others refer to the two day seminar experience)
What is meant by the term ‘Business with Heart’?
Business with Heart is based on the simple principle that as our understanding and appreciation of who we are changes and evolves, so too must the ways in which we relate to each other, the planet and our business. It is not a formula or a rigid philosophy; rather it is an opening to imagine and formulate practical answers to questions we have not yet conceived of. It is an art of imagination which can help us to navigate our way into a future that our hearts know is possible. Business with Heart is about finding out what it is we most feel and wish to give, from our hearts and souls, and imagining new ways to do so. It is about opening to new and creative ways to offer that to, and for, the world. It is about a sacred serving from a place of deep understanding, love and truth. It is about our innate ability to create and share as well as our fundamental desire to connect and elevate ourselves and all living beings.
What will this presentation be about?
This presentation will be a playful but informative introduction to the concept and potential practice of doing ‘Business with Heart’. It will describe a basic but quite comprehensive overview of why things are the way they are in terms of our economic, social and philosophical systems, and how the resulting structures and beliefs are no longer serving us as a species, or the whole planet and all the life that calls her Home. It will also describe and explore what other ways of seeing the world are possible, when we open to the emerging truth (and ancient wisdom) that we are all integral and vital parts of a very complex and beautifully harmonic holistic reality. It will offer a new perspective on how we can conceive and perceive ourselves, each other and the living planet in an entirely different way, and how this new vision will impact on how we do business, as we share our gifts, goods and services with the world. It will present some simple and practical changes that we can make, easily and effectively, that will align us with this natural evolutionary movement, effectively preparing us to transition ourselves into a whole new way of being.
What is meant by the ‘Gift Economy’?
The ‘gift economy’ is an expression used to describe a way of sharing the products of our human imaginations, our labours, our crafts and services as a gift to the world, from our heart. It was used in many, if not most, of our ancient societies and civilisations and is a much more sustainable and healthy way of relating to each other and all life on the planet. It is about offering our passion in the form of a non-linear / open system of giving and receiving. Each person gives according to their abilities, and every one receives according to their needs. This principle generates a very holistic and effortlessly self organising system of interactions, creativity and joy.
What is meant by the expression ‘Old Story of Separateness’?
Coined by the internationally renowned author, teacher and visionary, Charles Eisenstein, the ‘Old Story of Separateness’ is effectively an expression used to describe the predominant world view of the last few hundred years, (actually more like the last few thousand) and how this way of seeing the world, and the scientific, societal and moral assumptions and agreements that it generates, no longer serve us, or our world. It contains and describes a particularly myopic belief system wherein everything is separate, disconnected, and governed only by impersonal physical forces that have no inherent meaning or purpose. It subscribes to the delusion that all life is basically a struggle and every being is programmed and motivated to think only of themselves, and to act only to maximise self interest and gain. It fears change and assumes that such chaos and inherent danger needs to be controlled at all costs, through ever more regulation, manipulation and the excessive and ever increasing application of power and force. It perceives of and continues to treat our physical environments as well as our social, intellectual, artistic and cultural wealth as essentially being no more than a resource or commodity that can be destroyed, controlled and transmuted into money, goods and services that exist only satisfy our apparently insatiable need to be entertained, fed or so called free. It is a story that we all know and feel so well. It is the story that we have been told since before we were born, and continue to operate and suffer within. It is a story that is coming to an end, and this presentation (and seminar experience) is part of a new story being imagined and shared.
What is the essence of the ‘New Story of Connection’?
As the ancients knew and understood, everything is always in the process of becoming its opposite. The ‘Old Story of Separateness’ is well know, and has formed and informed so much of what we continue to believe is true and real, but is increasingly being seen and felt as no longer working for us, or for life on this planet. It is now time for a ‘New Story of Connection or Inter-Being’ to be told. This story is still being imagined, and we are all part of its writing and expression. This Story is one which includes everyone being able to find, develop and share their inherent gifts as part of the harmonic collective evolution of all life on this living planet. It embraces what our ancestors knew and took to be self evident; that we are all One. That what I do matters, that my gifts are important, that my mind and the thoughts it generates affects reality, that my health is intimately linked to the health of the world, that the inclinations of my heart are gifts that are part of an emergent reality that dares to imagine and manifest a more beautiful world that we can as yet perceive.
What will I learn at this event?
As with all of such events and experiences, you will invariable get what you need to receive. Your /mostly inherited or imposed collection of programs, beliefs, assumptions, thoughts and dreams will be exposed, explored and challenged, and magnified through the crystal clear lens of truth. During the evening presentation concepts and ideas will be shared that will, on many levels, threaten to and succeed in undermining many of your most secure beliefs about yourself and the world. But to contain this effect, and offer remedy and hope, this presentation will also explore how we can, individually and collective, open to, receive and manifest a more glorious vision of what our world could look and feel like.
What will I learn at the two day seminar?
The two day seminar is an intensive exploratory experience which will facilitate participants to deep down into the very foundations of beliefs about themselves, each other and the very nature of reality. It will provide many exercises and contextual information that will support the participant to go deep into their stories, and emerge with a clearer and more integrated sense of what their most precious gifts are and how they can become more open to create new opportunities to share these gifts with others, in service to all life. There will be group discussion, question time, and a lot of personal process work - designed to reveal. review and reprogram all the prejudicial perceptions that continue to limit our ability to manifest our best and most sacred dreams.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
(Note: some of these questions were based on the evening presentation format, whilst others refer to the two day seminar experience)
What is meant by the term ‘Business with Heart’?
Business with Heart is based on the simple principle that as our understanding and appreciation of who we are changes and evolves, so too must the ways in which we relate to each other, the planet and our business. It is not a formula or a rigid philosophy; rather it is an opening to imagine and formulate practical answers to questions we have not yet conceived of. It is an art of imagination which can help us to navigate our way into a future that our hearts know is possible. Business with Heart is about finding out what it is we most feel and wish to give, from our hearts and souls, and imagining new ways to do so. It is about opening to new and creative ways to offer that to, and for, the world. It is about a sacred serving from a place of deep understanding, love and truth. It is about our innate ability to create and share as well as our fundamental desire to connect and elevate ourselves and all living beings.
What will this presentation be about?
This presentation will be a playful but informative introduction to the concept and potential practice of doing ‘Business with Heart’. It will describe a basic but quite comprehensive overview of why things are the way they are in terms of our economic, social and philosophical systems, and how the resulting structures and beliefs are no longer serving us as a species, or the whole planet and all the life that calls her Home. It will also describe and explore what other ways of seeing the world are possible, when we open to the emerging truth (and ancient wisdom) that we are all integral and vital parts of a very complex and beautifully harmonic holistic reality. It will offer a new perspective on how we can conceive and perceive ourselves, each other and the living planet in an entirely different way, and how this new vision will impact on how we do business, as we share our gifts, goods and services with the world. It will present some simple and practical changes that we can make, easily and effectively, that will align us with this natural evolutionary movement, effectively preparing us to transition ourselves into a whole new way of being.
What is meant by the ‘Gift Economy’?
The ‘gift economy’ is an expression used to describe a way of sharing the products of our human imaginations, our labours, our crafts and services as a gift to the world, from our heart. It was used in many, if not most, of our ancient societies and civilisations and is a much more sustainable and healthy way of relating to each other and all life on the planet. It is about offering our passion in the form of a non-linear / open system of giving and receiving. Each person gives according to their abilities, and every one receives according to their needs. This principle generates a very holistic and effortlessly self organising system of interactions, creativity and joy.
What is meant by the expression ‘Old Story of Separateness’?
Coined by the internationally renowned author, teacher and visionary, Charles Eisenstein, the ‘Old Story of Separateness’ is effectively an expression used to describe the predominant world view of the last few hundred years, (actually more like the last few thousand) and how this way of seeing the world, and the scientific, societal and moral assumptions and agreements that it generates, no longer serve us, or our world. It contains and describes a particularly myopic belief system wherein everything is separate, disconnected, and governed only by impersonal physical forces that have no inherent meaning or purpose. It subscribes to the delusion that all life is basically a struggle and every being is programmed and motivated to think only of themselves, and to act only to maximise self interest and gain. It fears change and assumes that such chaos and inherent danger needs to be controlled at all costs, through ever more regulation, manipulation and the excessive and ever increasing application of power and force. It perceives of and continues to treat our physical environments as well as our social, intellectual, artistic and cultural wealth as essentially being no more than a resource or commodity that can be destroyed, controlled and transmuted into money, goods and services that exist only satisfy our apparently insatiable need to be entertained, fed or so called free. It is a story that we all know and feel so well. It is the story that we have been told since before we were born, and continue to operate and suffer within. It is a story that is coming to an end, and this presentation (and seminar experience) is part of a new story being imagined and shared.
What is the essence of the ‘New Story of Connection’?
As the ancients knew and understood, everything is always in the process of becoming its opposite. The ‘Old Story of Separateness’ is well know, and has formed and informed so much of what we continue to believe is true and real, but is increasingly being seen and felt as no longer working for us, or for life on this planet. It is now time for a ‘New Story of Connection or Inter-Being’ to be told. This story is still being imagined, and we are all part of its writing and expression. This Story is one which includes everyone being able to find, develop and share their inherent gifts as part of the harmonic collective evolution of all life on this living planet. It embraces what our ancestors knew and took to be self evident; that we are all One. That what I do matters, that my gifts are important, that my mind and the thoughts it generates affects reality, that my health is intimately linked to the health of the world, that the inclinations of my heart are gifts that are part of an emergent reality that dares to imagine and manifest a more beautiful world that we can as yet perceive.
What will I learn at this event?
As with all of such events and experiences, you will invariable get what you need to receive. Your /mostly inherited or imposed collection of programs, beliefs, assumptions, thoughts and dreams will be exposed, explored and challenged, and magnified through the crystal clear lens of truth. During the evening presentation concepts and ideas will be shared that will, on many levels, threaten to and succeed in undermining many of your most secure beliefs about yourself and the world. But to contain this effect, and offer remedy and hope, this presentation will also explore how we can, individually and collective, open to, receive and manifest a more glorious vision of what our world could look and feel like.
What will I learn at the two day seminar?
The two day seminar is an intensive exploratory experience which will facilitate participants to deep down into the very foundations of beliefs about themselves, each other and the very nature of reality. It will provide many exercises and contextual information that will support the participant to go deep into their stories, and emerge with a clearer and more integrated sense of what their most precious gifts are and how they can become more open to create new opportunities to share these gifts with others, in service to all life. There will be group discussion, question time, and a lot of personal process work - designed to reveal. review and reprogram all the prejudicial perceptions that continue to limit our ability to manifest our best and most sacred dreams.