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- Health Care Problems
The solution to the health care problems and the creation of a viable health care bill is actually very easy. It does however require personal responsibility, plus ethical action and social responsibility.
- Pride in Business
Unchecked pride in business and government is sadly, the ‘business as usual’ approach. Conscious business seeks integrity in the workplace, and leadership based on humility and service.
- Rights and Responsibilities
Humans are great at demanding rights, but rarely wish to take responsibility. We need rights AND responsibilities. Where is our definition of social responsibility? What is integrity when it comes to it.
- Truth in Politics
Is there such an thing as truth in politics? Why not? What black swan event needs to happen to create a game change?
 
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
- Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller spent his life creating game changing artifacts that are relevant today. We explore Bucky Fuller's principles, self disciplines and design artifacts.
- Synergy
The law of Synergy requires that we start with the whole system first. The most painstaking examination of the parts will not reveal the whole.
 
CHARACTERISTICS
- Positive Deviant Characteristics
Positive Deviant Characteristics clearly set them apart from the crowd.
 
COACHING
- Benefits of Business Coaching
What is business coaching? When we understand this we get closer to understanding the benefits of business coaching.
- Business Leadership Coaching
There are many companies now offering business leadership coaching. What makes for a successful leadership coaching program?
- Coaching Questions
Asking great coaching questions has the potential to create powerful change and transformation. We list examples, with stories of outcomes.
- Coaching
Positive Deviants require specialist coaching to support their unique world view and development.
- Executive Coaching Australia
Christine McDougall, senior executive coach for 13 years, explores Executive Coaching Australia, its history and trends.
- Executive Coaching
Integral Executive Coaching builds leaders who live at the Edge, have High Altitude Perspective and Extreme Integrity.
- Family Business Succession Planning
Family Business Succession Planning and coaching requires the ability to work with unique tensions, which may include autocratic leadership, ill-defined boundaries, and assumed values and vision.
- Individual Development Plan
Within the domain of integral coaching we create an individual development plan that is often a part of an executive coaching program
- Integral Coaching
Authentic leadership..people talk about it, most of us yearn for it, but what is it. Integral coaching supports the kind of leaders we want to be inspired by.
- Integrity Coaching
Integrity Coaching is about maintaining the highest level of integrity within an environment of power and ego.
- Just in time Coaching
Just in time Coaching allows you to access your coach when you need it-fast, effective, powerful.
- Soul Coaching
You will seek Amchara Soul Coaching because you have a longing to do the inner work of profound depth, exploring territories you speak to few others about.
 
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
- Absolute Yes
Saying no to anything unless it is an absolute yes provides a powerful decision making model with the destination truth.
- Clean Communication
Clean Communication is essential to any integral leadership development plan. Good leadership skills will allow the leader to be sure that the culture ‘keeps it clean’ for health and profitability.
- Conscious Communication skills
The importance of communication skills is critical to any personal development plan. Conscious Communication Skills indicates that a high level of awareness of the affects and effects is present.
- Conversation for Understanding
A conversation for understanding is a powerful tool for conflict resolution, simultaneously improving communication skills and developing active listening skills.
- Deception
A strong personal development plan will address deception or self and others, with intention to seek a destination truth. Deception deals with energy, and our energy is either clean or unclean.
- Importance of Communication Skills
The importance of communication skills and how to improve communication skills is essential to an integral leadership development plan.
- Intentional Communication
Clean intentional communication when giving feedback will ensure success. The importance of communication skills cannot be stressed enough in any leadership development plan.
- Trusting Intuition
Trusting intuition requires a level of self esteem and the ability to distinguish the voice of the ego. Developing intuition is an important part of a leadership development plan.
- Listen for
What we listen for matters. Practicing active listening skills though the application of listening exercises will transform our relationships and develop our conscious communication.
- Listening
Improving listening skills is a life's work and part of any conscious communication practice. To truly listen to another is one of the greatest gifts we can give.
- Making Requests
Making requests is an art form requiring high self-esteem. As part of a leadership development plan powerful requesting will assist in improving communication skills.
- Managing Expectations
Managing expectations goes hand in hand with managing change in the workplace. The power of expectations makes or breaks a corporate culture.
- New Language
If we want a game change to take us to destination truth in the brave new world we need new language.
- Staying in the Question
Staying in the question invites a world of possibility. When we are open for questions we open our mind, moving ever closer to a destination truth. This is one of the most powerful change models.
- Truth
Speaking the truth is difficult. Developing conscious communication skills as part of a leadership development plan with an aim to move closer to a destination truth is a noble skill for any leader.
- Win Win Win
Practicing win win win as a way of being invites a game change. As part of conscious negotiation strategies, and a powerful conflict resolution technique, everyone wins by implication.
 
COSMIC ACCOUNTING
- Cosmic Accounting
Cosmic Accounting demonstrates that we have more energy arriving on Earth each minute than being used annually.
- Definition of Ecology
The Definition of Ecology ask us to explore our every thought and action, our purchasing decision, our choices.
- Field Effects
Considering the field effects of our every thought and action is critical for our healthy future. Similar to ‘precession’ proposed by Bucky Fuller, we can no longer claim ignorance of the ‘blood diamond’ effect.
- Principle of Exchange
When the Principle of Exchange is working well, all parties feel valued. No one feels that they are giving more, working harder, spending more time, not being appreciated.

 CREATIVITY INNOVATION
- Creativity Innovation
Using creativity innovation as a game change to solve tough problems by adopting an abundance mindset
- Game Change
Creating a game change when faced with tensions between current reality and the future possibility is an essential tool of creativity innovation. We use the law of abundance in this model.
 
GUINEA PIG C
- Audacity of Hope
The myth of Pandora's box provides a background to the very audacity of hope the world seeks in these turbulent times.
- Breakdown USA
With the metaphor of the Twilight series of books, and the background of the economic meltdown, we look at Breakdown USA as a major game change.
- City of God
As a guest in Rio de Janeiro's famous City of God I consider what game change we need as the greatest leverage point to get people out of resource poverty.
- Definition of Success
How I crafted my definition of success, cultivated an attitude of gratitude and built a trust relationship with my intuition.
- Emerge through Emergency
Emerge through emergency - a personal game change as I emerge though the economic meltdown using the example of Buckminster Fuller
- Humility
Finding more humility has re-calibrated my definition of success, strengthened by attitude of gratitude and increased integrity. Each day I move closer to humility my happiness increases.
- Integral Life
Buckminster Fuller demonstrated living an Integral Life. Christine McDougall's personal blog on her journey using Bucky as my role model.
- Kairos Time
Kairos time is the perfect time, not a moment too soon or too late. Applying self discipline and improving endurance allowed me to make a game change under the influence of Kairos time.
- Life Expectations
Life expectations usually get seriously derailed..building an attitude of gratitude in the unexpected, developing endurance exercises for navigating life.
- Meltdown
Many Positive Deviants have already experienced their own personal meltdown and are able to support others going through the greater global economic meltdown and its multiple systemic repercussions.
- Redefining Relationships
In our Brave New World we are in the process of redefining relationships, building trust relationships based on a synergy model that transcend the 'traditional.'
- Transrational
We will not solve today's problems using our reasoning. We must become transrational, lords of chaos. Any leadership development plan that doesn't include the transrational with not serve the future.
 

INTEGRITY
- Definition of Integrity
The deeper meaning of the definition of integrity implies a level of living in wholeness and truth in all aspects of our lives. Destination truth. This form of integrity is a life's work.
- Destination Truth
At what price integrity? If we are to reach a destination truth, we need a game change. We need to say no to little atrocities, and to know that together, we are change.
- Divided Life
Living a divided life takes all of our energy. We need a game change, a destination truth. We need to find our unique song inside.
- Integrity
We are faced with a complex global crisis that may feel hopeless. What can one person do? Integrity is the Essence.
- Personal Integrity Inventory
Having completed the Free Personal Integrity Inventory the next step is action. What does integrity mean? It means walk your talk. This is your chance.
- Quotes on Integrity
Quotes on Integrity offers a collection of quotes and poems that reflect profound integrity.
- Radical Truth
How do we live a life of radical truth? How do we make the destination truth? How do we distinguish between what is true and what is the ego? Do we have the courage to change?
- Spaceship Earth
The age of integrity demands that we become responsible for the field effects of our every action on spaceship earth. As Bucky Fuller said, integrity is the essence.
- What does Integrity mean?
What does integrity mean? Rather than give a definition, we explore integrity as a daily practice.
 
INTERVIEW
- Audio Interview with Christine
An Audio interview discussing the principles of Buckminster Fuller in relationship to our current global economy.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
- Accountability at Work
Our economic meltdown is contributing to cost cutting. The energy and time cost due to low accountability at work is rarely measured. Building trust relationships and teaching responsibility are key.
- Authority and Responsibility
We want authority but we don’t want the responsibility that comes with it. We want authorship (power), but we don’t want to be held to account.
- Business Leadership Skills
Our current business leadership skills need a serious game change, beyond the business as usual model, able to cope with rapid breakdown and change.
- Clean Communication
Clean Communication is essential to any integral leadership development plan. Good leadership skills will allow the leader to be sure that the culture ‘keeps it clean’ for health and profitability.
- Compassion
Our world is desperate for more compassion. We are so quick to condemn, so reluctant to forgive..we need a game change with the destination truth.
- Dark Night
We often treat the Dark Night of the Soul as a place to avoid, yet from the darkness comes humility and creativity, grace and wisdom
- Difference between Leadership and Management
The Difference Between Leadership and Management is rarely defined simply and clearly. Many people assume that a leader is a good manager and vice versa. This is often not the case.
- Emergence
How do we support leaders to thrive in emergence? A personal story from business leadership coaching and team facilitation to working on large scale systemic change.
- Executive Leadership Development Program
An executive leadership development program designed specifically to meet the most complex issues of the 21st Century, beyond the traditional 'good leadership skills’, incorporating leadership ethics and new worldviews.
- Famous Business Leaders
This is not about the 'usual' famous business leaders. This is about the exceptional servant leaders who are famous to the people they lead because of their commitment to creating value and being part of a game change.
- Forever Beta
We are change. Welcome to the world of Fast Forever Beta...where change is the norm. Makes you uncomfortable?..get used to it. Its the biggest game change in town.
- Healthy Anger
A lot of people do not have a distinction about healthy anger. They see all anger as bad. Most of us need to learn assertive communication. How to be assertive in a good way.
- Integral Life Practice
Years of trial and error have taught me just what Integral Life Practice supports me to be the best me I can be, to improve my endurance in all domains and to live with the attitude of gratitude no matter what happens.
- Integral Personal Development Plan
A well crafted integral personal development plan will provide the necessary stretch. It will include an integral life practice, work on conscious communication, plus many other elements.
- Leadership Alchemy
To create leadership alchemy requires a game change strategy; a mixture of positive deviants with more traditional players; add a pinch of chaos, some provocation, shake and stir..
- Leadership Development and the Future of Business
A rigorous leadership development plan is even more important in times of massive global game change. Here’s why...
- Leadership Development
Traditional Leadership Development is not hard to find. What we need today is integral leadership and a leadership development plan that addresses today's issues with tomorrow's thinking.
- Little Atrocities
We are all party to little atrocities. We stay silent, watch as ethics in the workplace disintegrate, ignore our addiction to stuff. We need a game change; to learn the importance of communication skills.
- Love and Power
By exploring a definition of love and a definition of power, and the principle of tensegrity (tension and integrity) we find the exquisite balance between love and power.
- Precession
Precession, as described by Buckminster Fuller, is a powerful principle to integrate as part of any leadership development plan. Our side effects are often natures main effects.
- Reverence as a Business Practice
Reverence as a Business Practice is rare. The two words are not listed together in google. If you want to be at the cutting edge of conscious business, reverence must become a practice.
- Right View
Right View is the first part of the four noble truths of Buddhism. But what is the “right” right view and how do we establish this for a healthy game change?
- Self Discipline
Maintaining quality self discipline liberates us, builds self esteem, and is essential for any leadership development plan, or indeed any personal development plan.
- Transition Leadership
Transition leadership requires a game change in approach. By presencing what is so you will build more confidence in uncertainty and economic meltdown.
 
MASSIVE ACTION
- Massive Action Now Corporate
Does Your Career Need Massive Action Now? This program will help.
- Massive Action Now SME
Time for Massive Action Now. Take the program that will change your business and life.
- Massive Action Now Teams
Is it time for your team to take Massive action now? Here is a program to support them.
- Massive Action Now
No matter what your circumstances, it is time for Massive Action Now. We will show you how.
 
MIND BODY
- Physical Intelligence
Our body provides constant feedback. Do we have the physical intelligence to listen to, and act on what it is saying?
 
NEW ECONOMICS
- Creative Integrity
Creative Integrity is a required if we wish to navigate towards a future of comprehensive consideration of the natural design of Universe.
- New Economics
Our current economic system has reached its limits. We need a new economics to navigate the road to future prosperity.
- Scarcity
The Scarcity principle is all pervasive in our society. Highlighted by the economic meltdown, we must be the game change to recognise that we live in a sufficient Universe.
- What is Security
In asking the question, what is security, we need to look beyond the global economic crisis, and into the very model that is the global economy. Its survival depends on our remaining in fear.

PERSONAL SUSTAINABILITY
- Beauty
What is beauty in our lives? How does it sustain us? Any personal development plan or leadership development plan that does not include bringing in more beauty will be lacking.
- Courage Quotes
Inspired by Lao Tzu, this article on courage quotes discusses creative ways on how to overcome fear using love as the core motivation.
- Emergency Tool Kit
Create your own Emergency Tool Kit to navigate the changing waters of today's world, to move through the dark night of the soul, get out of stinking thinking and increase personal sustainability.
- Energy Bank Account
Monitoring the inputs and outflows from our personal energy bank account is essential to any personal development plan. Are we in personal energy debt? Or do we have a reserve?
- How to overcome fear
It was a bungy jump that taught me how to overcome fear, breakthrough resistance to change, and tell my lizard brain to go sit in the corner and be quiet.
- Personal Sustainability
Personal Sustainability and Resilience are the two sides of one coin. How to build endurance and manage the dark night of the soul are some skills required for increased personal sustainability.
- Song Inside
Emerging from a dark night of the soul and respecting the kairos time to everything allows the birth of our unique song inside. Singing our unique song enriches the world.
- Voluntary Simplicity
A journey from the ambition for ever more, to the joy of less. Voluntary Simplicity has redefined my definition of success, and crafted my definition of integrity.
- Workaholic
Are you a workaholic who has forgotten how to have fun? How do you create your own playlist to add depth and dimensionality to your life? A life playlist is an essential part of an emergency tool kit.
 
REVIEWS AND RESOURCES
- The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker movie affected me in ways I was not expecting. More of a study of extreme stress, the edge of life and death and the very different coping mechanisms than a look at war.
- Linchpin
Linchpin, Seth Godin’s new book, challenges us to become indispensable. Its a book written for positive deviants and others who really understand what it takes to be an artist in our work and life.

RUNNING
- Adelaide Hills
Some beautiful steep trail running is to be had in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia.
- Buenos Aires
An Aussie girl finds her way around Buenos Aires by running the streets. She shares her highlights..
- Champion Team
Is it possible to build a champion team in a day? The following true story is an illustration of how this can happen.
- Endurance
We all learn endurance -in this article we use ultra distance running as a metaphor for life.
- Gold Coast Marathon
A long time sufferer of exercise induced Hyponataemia experiments with solutions at the 2009 Gold Coast Marathon
- Gold Coast Marathon 2010
In times of uncertainty, the benefits of running become more recognised. More people are running marathons around the world. The Gold Coast marathon 2010 was no exception. Ordinary people become heros.
- Rio de Janeiro
Join an Aussie girl as she runs the amazing Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ipanema, Copacabana, Lagoa.
- Running to Lose Weight
Many people start running to lose weight. Here are some tips on how to make this work, how to avoid the traps, and enjoy the experience.
- Running Training Program
Creating a Running Training Program that fits your goals and lifestyle and covers the essential ingredients
- Running
Articles and stories on running from a Positive Deviant marathon runner as she travels the world.
- Six Foot Track
March 13, 2010 I was one of 800 people who ran the Six Foot track in the beautiful Blue Mountains Australia.
- Trail Runs
An inspirational adventure about trail runs in the Australian Bush.
- Where the Truth Lies
Where the truth lies is often not in the obvious places. Truth often defies the logical, rational and reasonable world. Allow me to explain using a story of a running injury in the root chakra.
 
SENSE MAKING
- Integral Map
Navigating the increasingly complex world made clearer through the use of an Integral Map
- Sense Making
In our increasingly complex world, an Integral Map provides sense making.

TEAM COACHING
- Stand up Meetings
Stand up meetings for effective team facilitation are tactical meetings. They are not about strategy, or governance, or getting into technical issues.
- Team Facilitation
Team facilitation is a highly interactive, organic and powerful form of team coaching that surfaces issues and creates pathways for more cohesion and success.
 
WORLD FORUM
- State of the World Forum
A personal account of the State of the World Forum held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, August 2009

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