Marvin Berman shares with us his model for employing the Kubler-Ross
grieving cycle. Specifically he bookends his comments with:
>Fear underlies all stages (loss of control, powerlessness, abandonment)
and
>This is where one sits at the edge of the unknown, centered and
>without a map and employs faith to continually direct their energy toward
>their curiosity and away from the fears generated by negative predictions and
>other fantasy-based thought patterns.
What struck me was the proposition that fear is the foundation of our
reaction to change, and faith is what we employ to overcome fear.
I've been sensitive to fear-based behaviors lately, largely due to renewed
emphasis on programs to induce fear as a way of dealing with social
ills--put uniforms on our school children, increase the severity of
penalties for juevenile crime, the perpetual "build more jails" appeals.
Even advertising campaigns use fear to get people to think they must do
something--don't lose your hair, don't die of breast cancer, and heaven
forbid, don't grow old!
So if faith is what we must use to ovecome fear, how do we embed a
foundation of faith in our relationships to replace the fear?
--Ginger Shafer The Leadership Dimension "Bringing Leadership to Life" vshafer@azstarnet.com
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