The Saboteurs of Teamwork – Egos, Trauma, and Unconsciousness

The persistence and exacerbation of all our social ills are a result of the unconscious rules built into, and sabotaging, our ‘problem solving’ conversations. Our egos are the enforcers of these rules regarding what is safe or unsafe to include in our conversations, and they do so outside of our conscious awareness. If team members, while seeking healing solutions for our social ills, are unconsciously under the sway of the same ego driven rules that cause the persistence and exacerbation of these ills, well…not a great recipe for success. As Einstein said: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” To paraphrase his quote: “We cannot solve our problems at the same level of consciousness that existed when we created them.”

The primary way team members relate to each other is through their collective team conversations. This workshop is not about finding solutions to our social ills. Rather it is about discovering a way of creating those solutions through a radically different kind of ongoing team conversation. A collective conversation that is not unconsciously controlled by the same ego driven rules that cause their persistence and exacerbation in the first place.