I Have A Dream

I have a dream that organisations everywhere will become part of the solution to the world’s social ills, rather than a part of the problem. That work will become intrinsic to and supportive of humans’ flourishing. Indeed, that the very idea of “work” fades out to be superseded by the idea of “playing productively together”. And eventually our collectively regarding the idea of working to earn a living – as opposed to a means to find joy in mutual society – as nothing more than an anachronistic curiosity.

I dream that when we talk about “productivity” we’re really thinking about the quality of our relationships, rather than the amount of good or services we can produce in an hour or a day. That “being productive” is counted in units of joyfulness, rather than in $Dollars or £Pounds.

I dream that organisations and the people comprising them recognise their own needs and go about building the kind of environments, workplaces, societies where those needs can be discussed, and addressed.

I dream that every organisation has a focus on its health, on the quality of the experience that people who work in it, with it and in contact with it have every day. I dream that organisations get to a place where they’re aware of what they think and believe, collectively, and can looks at those shared beliefs in the light of the big picture of what they’re trying to achieve.

I dream of a day when organisations are sane, and flourishing.

More Than Just Dreaming – Making A Start

Dreaming is all very well, and sometimes gives us the energy or motivation to act. For my part, I’m acting to bring about my dreams via Organisational Psychotherapy.

I take much comfort from the words of Martin Luther King, Junior. Not least:

“This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Invitation To Learn More

So, please allow me to extend an invitation to learn more about organisational psychotherapy. Either as a potential beneficiary or as a potential therapist. Not to learn from me, you understand, but perhaps to learn some things together. Might that help you get some needs met – either others’ or your own?

– Bob

Further Reading

Science and Sanity ~ Alfred Korzybski
Dreaming ~ Think Different blog post