Welcome to the Five Questions blog!

Posted on | December 23, 2008 | 2 Comments

Let’s get right into it. . .

The purpose of this blog is to get some discussion going and deepen understanding of The Five Questions and how they can be used to turn the @#$% that happens at work into ‘life lessons’.

You know how it is: you go to work, do your thing, and stuff happens. Sometimes it’s the same stuff from the same people. Drives you nuts. Makes you want to quit.

What if there were a way, a simple process you could master, that would turn those ‘bad’ situations and interactions into powerful life-changing learning experiences?

Yeah. It can happen. Been doing it for years myself—and helping other people do it, too. That’s where the book came from, actually.

So – I’ll be posting about ways to help you do this….more soon!

Comments

2 Responses to “Welcome to the Five Questions blog!”

Bob Kamm
February 28th, 2009 @ 8:26 pm

Questions are more powerful than answers…because while the same questions apply to most of us, the same answers often don’t. They will tend to be different with each of us. It’s OUR work, not John’s to find our own answers. John has been an important mentor to me for nearly a decade and a half. His willingness to ask these questions first of himself…and openly share his own struggle with all those he teaches is bracingly authentic. Identifying one thing that doesn’t need to change–ourselves, creates a paradoxical tension that is good for the work. Perhaps John’s “self” we need to come home to is very much like James Hillman’s sense of the soul’s code…that there is an image, a calling within us from the beginning…it is there all the time in an eternal state of presence…the journey is a journey of a breath, a single step, a turn of the heart, so close is the truth, so emergent into
every moment, if we just allow ourselves to be in its welcoming. Bob Kamm 2/28/09, in congratulations to John for the realization of this work.
john
March 1st, 2009 @ 5:54 am

Thank you, Bob Kamm, for this. . .

Yes, what I am referring to in Five Questions is, I think, what Hillman calls ‘the soul’s code’. The rest of nature lives in this truth: the oak tree is in the process of becoming a mature oak tree, not trying desperately to become something else, like a pine tree! We seem to be the only ones here that struggle with being and becoming who we are.

When I think of the kind of Father YOU have been, Bob, it gives me hope that perhaps we can begin to raise up young people to know who they are, and help them find the courage to simply BE, without the need for books like mine–and yours!

JOHN