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From Responsible to Response-Able
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Contents: 6 video clips
Fred Kofman offers a series of lectures from the 2005 Integral Consciousness seminar, helping to break the cycles of impulsive reaction in the face of challenge.
Fred Kofman is the co-founder and president of Axialent, an international consulting company specializing in leadership development and teamwork. Fred has created and taught programs in leadership, personal mastery, team learning, organizational effectiveness, and coaching for more than 15,000 participants.
Fred Kofman discusses the fallacy of thinking we can be completely responsible for the consequences of our actions, especially in light of the "fiction of self"—it's like telling a dream character to be responsible for his choices, but how responsible can the dream character actually be? Can there really be a "wrong choice" in a dream? Does the dream character even exist to begin with? The key, Fred explains, is not to feign responsibility for consequences that are well beyond our control—but to instead be “response-able” in the face of whatever arises in your actions, by simply asking ourselves "What is my dharma in this situation?"
Fred explains that ever-present consciousness is not a place at which you can arrive, but a ladder that is made of the very same stuff you are aspiring to reach.
Bastards and Saints—however can we tell the difference between the two? In this clip, Fred explains the wisdom of humanity is that we can only win by being defeated....
Here Fred discusses the difference between process goals and a product goals, beginning with the intention in which the goal is created.
How do the challenges of your everyday life define the most admirable qualities of your human soul? Would your beauty ever be able to shine without these challenges? Let Fred explain why, when faced with adversity, we should say "oh, fertilizer!" instead of "oh, shit!!"
Can a question be so important that an answer is not warranted? When the question itself demands an intention of awareness that guides your actions, the answer, according to Fred, is the question.
Image: Dreaming by Pamela Sukhum