TemenosUnderstand yourself and others

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First… !

A listening activity

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Listening is really hard, although it only requires two simple steps:

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1 - Don’t Talk

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1 - Don’t Talk !

2 - Don’t THINK about Talking

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Why do we need Temenos?

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Temenos invites us to experience connection, openness and trust on a level that’s not accessible to us in daily life. !

With Temenos, we can safely test more effective methods of relating with others.

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Temenos as devised by Siraj Sirajuddin is

designed around three main parts

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Influence Maps !

Reflecting on and sharing of our past

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Clean Slate !

Deepening our understanding of our

present

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Personal Vision !

Imagination and articulation of our

future.

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Timekeeper

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Influence Maps

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Introspect visualise articulate

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Introspect. Remember. !

Visualise people and events. Re-visit how you felt: what was going on in your body, your mind, your soul at that moment in time?

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Visualise. !Decide how to draw the events and people on your paper. !This is not about creating art – drawing taps into your right brain, increasing the resources you bring into this exercise. !Your picture will help people follow your story just as fine when you do kindergarten-style drawing. !I’ve heard stories that moved me to tears using a blank page. There’s no way you can do this wrong.

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Articulate. !

Tell your story to someone you trust. !

Share with the group. Ask your audience to compassionately listen.

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Don’t let yourself be limited by your drawing.

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Clean Slate

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Introspect visualise articulate

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Clean Slate is the exercise in a Temenos lab that focuses on the present. !

You use it to gain clarity about a specific system you are a part of: your Self, your team, your marriage… !

It helps you discover what you want.21

Clean Slate gives you clarity about what is, about your individual perception of the current reality of the Temenos. !

It highlights and connects your pain points in that Temenos and gives you the option to see them, gain understanding, and let them be. It may offer you choices.

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How am I not authentic in that system? !

How does that system make me not be authentic?

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Personal Vision

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Introspect visualise articulate

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I’ve focussed with clarity on how the old pattern has sabotaged my success and how I want to choose a different pattern in the future.

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