Meetings definitely get a bad rap. I work mostly remotely with a distributed team of people who work in the field. My recurring meetings with them are a quick opportunity for them to update me all in one go and also for us to have a human interaction as two people on the same team. They aren’t often done well in my experience but, when they are, it can serve many simultaneous purposes.
I love this Tom. For another reason here: meetings are a profound focusing function for self-inquiry, too: especially as we learn so much about who we are by paying attention to our interactions with others in the here-and-now. I've been on a huge Yalom kick (five books in now) because of how he writes about directing our attention back to the therapeutic qualities of our relationships with each other.
To shift registers a bit, but make the same point: meetings provide a practice ground for cultivating loving kindness, sympathetic joy, emotional clarity. Propertly attuned, they can be an active practice of self-emptying.
So I LOVED the metaphor of rests and musical notes here. Just brilliant man.
Meetings definitely get a bad rap. I work mostly remotely with a distributed team of people who work in the field. My recurring meetings with them are a quick opportunity for them to update me all in one go and also for us to have a human interaction as two people on the same team. They aren’t often done well in my experience but, when they are, it can serve many simultaneous purposes.
I love this Tom. For another reason here: meetings are a profound focusing function for self-inquiry, too: especially as we learn so much about who we are by paying attention to our interactions with others in the here-and-now. I've been on a huge Yalom kick (five books in now) because of how he writes about directing our attention back to the therapeutic qualities of our relationships with each other.
To shift registers a bit, but make the same point: meetings provide a practice ground for cultivating loving kindness, sympathetic joy, emotional clarity. Propertly attuned, they can be an active practice of self-emptying.
So I LOVED the metaphor of rests and musical notes here. Just brilliant man.