It’s a fascinating thing: Groups.
I have children who are in elementary school and of highschool age, and I don’t know if you remember what it’s like to be in highschool, but it’s a daily practice of confrontation because there is nothing but group dynamics going on.
Things happen in groups.
There is momentum in groups.
Stuff goes down in groups.
You are either outside the group, or inside the group.
There is often an alpha personality who runs the group even if he/she doesn’t want to. It’s just part of their personality, so it happens by default.
I was at a conference table once where there were 30 year olds sitting on one side, and 45+ year olds sitting on the other. Some of the voices were wanting to emerge while others were wanting to share wisdom.
And out of love and nourishment, these over 45 year olds watered the shit out of these emerging buds of voices. They were just trying to come out of the ground, and they got blasted by a whole bunch of well meaning wisdom…
Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.
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