satori ethos: becoming aware of inner genius
For the past week I have been wrestling with God over two words. One being Satori, a Japanese Buddhist term meaning "enlightenment" or "understanding". The second word, Ethos, a Greek word originally meaning "accustomed place". Ethos forms the root "Ethikos" meaning "the state of being" - the inner source, soul, mind. According to the Oxford Dictionary it is defined as "the characteristic spirit, prevalent tone of sentiment, of a people or community; the genius of an institution or system"...
Satori Ethos, becoming aware of inner genius ...
Today I was in Church listening to my Mentor, Life Coach and Spiritual Father Dr. Victor L. Powell and it's like all of the dots started connecting together in my mind. I was first introduced to the word Satori about 4 years ago. And since then I have tossed it around loosely in various ways. It was not until the last 7-9 months once I received the word Ethos that Satori started to have meaning beyond it's surface structure. Satori alone is a very powerful idea however; when coupled with the word Ethos - we start to see a deeper idea, Satori + Ethos or "becoming aware of the inner genius of an organization". Dr. Victor L. Powell talked today about Leadership. He talked about how as Leaders we have to know the gifting(s) of the people around us to leverage the gifts properly for the purpose of creative project manifestation. Something that was striking to me, something that he said that absolutely blew me away was the idea that the problem, many times, is not the recognition of the gifts, the problem is the individual understanding his or her own gifts, in other words - knowing what THEY are designed to do...
So what if, just what if we could all understand what we were designed to do? What if we were all grounded in our purpose? What if we knew, without a shadow of a doubt what our roles are in the earth? Dr. Powell asked the question .. "Do you know what you were designed to do..." I thought about this for a second... I know what my gifting is, I have been blessed with a early understanding that I am a Designer. I think creatively without effort, I can look at just about any problem through the lens of design and manifest creative solutions. I am indeed a Designer. However; me knowing what I am designed to to has very little impact on the collective whole if the people around me do not know what they are designed to do. For example...
Say I have an idea for a new way to execute church services and my desire is to design this idea, manifest it into the earth. If I need administrators, that can execute the ideas that I develop I need the people who have the "inner genius" or "gifting" for administration to be rooted in what THEY are designed to do. If there is a graphic design element to the idea, I need the Graphic Designers to be grounded in their "inner genius" or "gifting" ... IF all of the parts are not working together, there is a great chance that my design will fail.
Designing or even leading from the strengths of many has a huge upside; however this upside has no effect if the "many" are clueless to their "inner genius" ... This is where Satori Ethos comes into play... I really feel that if a Life Development Coach type would dig deeper into this single idea, the idea could open new doors to collective innovation at many different levels...
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[+] Open Ideation - Satori Ethos for the organization - Discovering the inner genius of an organization
[+] Open Ideation - Satori Ethos for the individual - Discovering the inner genius of an individual


