Bravo! Well articulated, I'm sooo looking forward to your opus book!
I'm hoping that we men can realize the need (I think that's the first step) to form a generous and strong container in which to hold the polarities (the second step, back and forth like a dance, most likely). And for the women to realize the need to form generous and strong interrelationality between the poles, dancing together and with the men. :-)
I don't know about this whole paragraph: "The masculine impulse to protect and act has nowhere to go. The feminine impulse to attune and relate is overwhelmed. When direction is lost, power can become violence, and empathy can collapse into exhaustion." I'm 75 and grew up in another time when fighting back was supposed to be the response, but in my neighborhoods, that never happened, and I never learned to do it. I also never learned that presence is a powerful response: quiet, steadfast resistance until the parties could de-escalate. I was left with my learned freeze response, and in adulthood, I continued to freeze in verbal conflict. I'm not sure if this has anything to offer younger men, but it helps me make sense of my earlier and present life. Thanks.
Bravo! Well articulated, I'm sooo looking forward to your opus book!
I'm hoping that we men can realize the need (I think that's the first step) to form a generous and strong container in which to hold the polarities (the second step, back and forth like a dance, most likely). And for the women to realize the need to form generous and strong interrelationality between the poles, dancing together and with the men. :-)
Yes, let's dance! 💃🏼🕺🏻
I don't know about this whole paragraph: "The masculine impulse to protect and act has nowhere to go. The feminine impulse to attune and relate is overwhelmed. When direction is lost, power can become violence, and empathy can collapse into exhaustion." I'm 75 and grew up in another time when fighting back was supposed to be the response, but in my neighborhoods, that never happened, and I never learned to do it. I also never learned that presence is a powerful response: quiet, steadfast resistance until the parties could de-escalate. I was left with my learned freeze response, and in adulthood, I continued to freeze in verbal conflict. I'm not sure if this has anything to offer younger men, but it helps me make sense of my earlier and present life. Thanks.
Please find two references are very much about the topic of relational intelligence.
http://beezone.com/current/meaning.html
http://beezone.com/adida/transcendyourinvisiblescriptedit.html
This reference is also very much related to this topic
http://beezone.com/adida/quandramamashikhara/thelawofpleasuredomeedit.html