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Chapter by Chapter
Review
Each part of the book is listed corresponding to
its page number.
Foreword
By Dr. Don
Beck, Spiral Dynamics Integral
CPR for the Soul by Mike Jay takes us beyond the
New Age into the Real Age.
"Chicken
Soup" won't get it done.
Here is the
substance to handle turbulence; the insight to detect opportunities
and threats; and the strength, spirit and courage to act
responsibly.
Jay meshes
state-of-the-art knowledge regarding human nature with a quiver full
of specific strategies and skills to empower self and influence
others to fully become what they can become.
This is a
bold, unique and creative synthesis of power-driven leadership, in
both theory and practice, to be found no where else.
CPR for the
Soul stresses natural design principles and processes to enhance
personal resilience.
This is not a
simplistic and superficial "airplane" read; it will challenge you to
your conceptual depth, to your very soul.
You will be
able to map your own strength and blind spots and then construct a
world around you that will naturally draw out your capacities.
Clearly the
21st Century will demand the very best we have to offer.
Mike Jay is
rapidly becoming the "coaches" coach, and the "leaders," leader.
He walks his talk in this Real Age.
Don Edward
Beck, Ph. D.
Spiral
Dynamics Integral Founder
Preface 5
In the preface, the author puts forward a definition
for resilience and five ideas:
I define resilience
as
the differentiated
power to persist when things don’t work out at first,
the capability to navigate ambiguity and uncertainty,
the motivation to transcend common problems and barriers
and to collaboratively anticipate the future in
sustainable ways.
1. Why would people want more resilience?
Essentially, we have a simple equilibrium to deal with:
to live our lives and to be lived by our lives.
The soul’s art is the unfolding of a life fully lived.
Each of us has the opportunity to find harmony in our
soul’s journey.
Life will present us with opportunities for
resilience—challenges to the soul, our life, our
relationships, our families, our activities, our
religion and spirituality and daily in our work. In
those moments, we may choose to engage, account,
author and respond through conscious design, or not.
The methodology I’m going to outline for you will give
you some tools with which to become more resilient by
design…if you choose.
2. What is soul?
I believe soul is an emergent set of properties that
arises from our nature via nurture. Religion and
Spirituality aside, these properties seek fitness in a
world that is constantly changing, growing, renewing and
evolving itself.
Fortunately for all of us, whether we understand
the secrets or not, our soul emerges, often in ways
which are unimaginable. It is not just the so-called
self-aware, the cultural creative, the spiritual sage,
or repentant sinner that takes communion of the soul,
but each and every sentient being in the universe. Out
of our primal nature emerges the soulful life, if we
only realize that and nothing more, life becomes
alive! So, if you choose to do nothing, your soul
will find its way. If you choose as I do to participate
with the soul in designing a life, your soul will
find you.
3. What is design?
When I use the term design, I’m talking about the
unconscious natural design and what I refer to as the
“cynthetic” design I use in this methodology. Cynthetic
is a term I coined to discuss “creative synthesis.”
4.
What is the pressing need…a new morality?
The
current paradigm keeps the new morality dormant and as a
result we promote unsustainable futures.
5. In the end you’ll discover in this book:
Each person has a unique constellation of gifts that are
often emergent in equilibrium of action, which is
not balanced. Therefore, resilience will
be emergent in a variety of unique and unpredictable
ways through the ability to innovate and adapt your own
as well as the constellation you create with others to
life-conditions over time.
The Path of Resilience 12
There are two kinds of resilience: event based and
path driven. Paths can be viewed in a rear-view mirror
of life, or projected forward out of the soul's gifts,
it's really a choice to be lived, or to be alive.
CPR as a Pathfinding System 25
CPR is an approach to help people find their gifts,
cynthesize those gifts into aliveness and reach more
robust states of resilience in the process of being
alive.
Resilient Design 35
Resilient design is a practical process of outlining
specific constellations of valued action through a
proprietary model the author developed over 19 years as
a coach, consultant and entrepreneur around creating
"unique success" or success customized for an
individuals gifts.
Mapping Personal Resilience 54
In this chapter, the actual Integral Mapping Process
is aligned with an exercise which the reader can perform
to identify design requirements.
The DNA Model 65
This coaching model was included in this book because
of the necessity in understanding the difference between
means and ends, or want and needs. The model helps the
reader understand the difference between unconscious
desires and conscious needs, and the action taken with
purpose to resolve existential contingencies
efficiently, effectively and sustainably.
PAAR 75
The Power, Accountability, Authority and
Responsibility Model was included to help people
understand the constituents of success. In order to
clearly become resilient, one has to realize that in
every action lies the essential nature of PAAR. Using a
golf-metaphor, we show the reader how PAAR is related to
PAR on a golf-course. Knowing "PAR/PAAR" for the course
helps us choose how to play.
Purpose 88
Purpose helps us quantify resilience. Without
purpose, resilience becomes detached from importance,
motivation, urgency, leverage and of course low-hanging
fruits, which are all components of choice-making.
Engage 101
The author takes time to explain the necessary
relationships between engagement and power in the PAAR
model, a constellation of action designed to promote
discovery, disclosure and acceptance among self and
other.
Account 118
Account is a model of Integral Mapping that includes
four domains, four perspectives, and four dimensions of
time. When we include space and phase, we create a
differentiated approach to integration which occurs in a
more robust resilience inventory.
Author 131
The actual capability to author a design comes from
the precursors and recursion of power and
accountability, without which authority is limited and
less resilient.
Respond 145
The author uses a practical exercise to show how the
entire CPR Formula is used to construct a design that is
able to respond across a broad range of contingency to
promote resilience.
Epilogue 156
The author summarizes the philosophy back-grounding
this model of designing resilience with a very
specifically outlined set of points to remember.
Bibliography
165
Appendices:
Personal Mapping Survey Map 2.0 Blank
170
These are blank maps to be used in cynthesizing
design and become part of the iterative process of
design, mapping and resilience over time.
Integral Mapping System™ 175
This is an expose on Integral Mapping, a very
practical approach anyone can use to guide the process
of mapping accountability.
The Cart & Horse 183
This paradigm comes from the author's own dilemma of
creating the book and how the simulation led to the
design of the book and the writing of the book.
Simulation Worksheet 198
This is a blank worksheet that can be used to walk a
person through a thought process designed to uncover
capability and requirements used for creating a
practical, yet resilient design approach for solving any
problem.
Dr. Steven Reiss Interview 202
The author interviewed researcher and Professor
Steven Reiss from The Ohio State University on his model
of Motivational Sensitivity, what it means and how it
can be used in mapping resilience.
Orders of Mind 239
This inclusion is at the generosity of Jennifer
Garvey-Berger with an excerpt from her dissertation at
Harvard on Kegan's Orders of Mind.
Dialogue 254
The author included this expose by David Bohm, et al
on dialogue to show clear specific methods to discover
strengths, limitations, opportunities and threats in a
collective.
RightAction™ 267
The 2006 version of RightAction™ Model (RAM) as
updated by the Author outlining the RAM as the right
people, doing the right things, in the right way, at the
right time, in the right space, for the right reasons,
to emerge right results.
The Final Word 278
Best way to experience the program is by reading the
book, completing the exercises and using a mastermind
group, or CPR
Developed Coach.
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