Expert Beginners

When they think they know the answers
People are difficult to guide
When they know that they don’t know
People can find their own way
Lao Tzu - Tao Te Ching

The Unfrozenmind workshops and retreats are about discovering your beginner’s mind; this mind lies in the space between your habits of thinking, talking and acting. It requires real work and bravery because you have to go places that most people choose not to. Economic creativity is a matter of self-creation and its constraints are our unobserved habits of mind, speech and body.

“Language is a plan of our mind”
When we choose to examine the very foundation of our experience then we discover that the way we conceive ourselves, and our outside world is a matter of language, social convention and shared concepts. Nothing is actually fixed.

The key to understanding the art and practice of an unfrozen mind is to fully appreciate that our experience is organised into pre-established patterns. Once we recognise that our minds are conditioned then we can retrain the mind to realise your highest future potential and highest future purpose. The research being undertaken into the benefits of meditation, training the mind, and neuroscience demonstrate that we can take charge of our own experience and redirect it in a positive and nourishing manner. http://www.mindandlife.org

Zen Master Seung Sahn talks about embracing ‘don’t know mind.’ This ‘not knowing’ is where our experience of body, speech and mind is not born from habit. Following ‘don’t know mind’ means embracing failure, repeatedly making mistakes. True learning takes place when we let go of what is secure and known and embrace the unknown future. Being an expert beginner means that you have to fully embrace the practice of self-love and outward compassion. When leaders operate from these key principles then their organisation changes…because it frees their people from the fear of making mistakes and being wrong, or not knowing the answer. An expert has to protect himself, an expert beginner is open to learning and new possibilities.The truth is if you are not making mistakes then you are not learning. Check out http://www.tompeters.com he preaches this code to business leaders and is brilliantly captured in his book Re-Imagine: business excellence in a disruptive age.

Unfrozenmind is the space between our thoughts, words and actions from which unfolds new narratives, that unite teams and individuals to ’self-create’ their organisations and design their own future.


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