We are inspired by many different and diverse traditions and philosophies. Polarity/Wholeness has a rich, deep and long tradition in a host of spiritual traditions including Taoism and Buddhism.
The writings of Parker J Palmer, Quaker, teacher and philosopher speaks deeply to us and we have integrated some of his work/theories into our workshop. The work of the Polarity Pathways Group in the US has been very inspiring and we have been using an adapted version of their coaching model in our work. We are currently developing an approach to polarity work with individuals and organisations that we are calling the Paradoxo Approach and this has been inspired by spirtual traditions mentioned above and gestalt psychotherapy/counselling models
Quotes from some of the writers who move and inspire us:
If I am to let my life speak things I want to hear, things I would gladly tell others, I must also let it speak things I do not want to hear and would never tell anyone else. My life is not only about my strengths and virtues, it is also about my liabilities and my limits, my trespasses and my shadow. An inevitable though often ignored dimension of the quest for ‘wholeness’ is that we must embrace what we dislike or find shameful about ourselves as well as what we are confident and proud of. – Parker Palmer
Life comes in opposites; life as we know it is a process of drawing boundaries; we treat the boundaries as real, we never seem to question the existence of the boundary itself - Ken Wilber
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the ebb and flow of water; in male and female; in the equation of quantity and quality – Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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