The Summer Solstice as most know these days is a time when the sun is above the horizon in the northern hemisphere for the longest time in the whole year. A day for enjoyment, meeting and connecting with friends, family and others as well as taking stock on how the year is going.
In Co-active Coaching terms this is also a day for Inquiries - an inquiry is a broad, open question that has no right answer but the potential for many answers. A tool to help us reflect on something at a deeper level and just let whatever thoughts want to come to the surface.
So on this long day here are a couple of Inquiries:
"What is it to celebrate?"
"What am I not allowing to surface?"
Happy Solstice!
What do you think of the notion some writer's have that if they were to ask such a question as your second it would risk their capacity to write; by which they mean the buried whatever surfaces in their work obliquely? Sorry for the terrible syntax.
ReplyDeleteWhat am I not allowing to surface?" Is a question that prompts the inquirer, that is, ourself, to respond and so allow a stream of thinking, images and sensations - some might say a stream of consiousness - to come to the surface. If as a writer this stream is allowed to flow in written form then the writer is being what they are. One of the five context of co-active coaching concerns forwarding the action and deepening the learning. So what learning comes from the iquiry? What do we know about ourselves now and what action do we want to take from this? There are many routes up the mountain, some more oblique than others.
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