AW: happiness

Visuelle Protokolle mail at visuelle-protokolle.de
Sat Sep 27 02:21:16 PDT 2003


Peter Sharon wrote:

Hi Alexander

What about a term that recognizes this, such as 'Work-contentment' or
'well-being at work'. For some their 'well-being' will be linked into
leadership & responsibility. Some would be prefer to take orders. Some will
want to share & openly contribute, others will be there to listen, some will
act on facts, some will be more creative/problem solvers etc, and so on....
It respects differences...Just what 'open space taps into!

And as you said Kerry ,' belonging means
being involved, participating in the key decisions affecting our
future'.

So if this leads to happiness/contentment, and happiness is holistic. Then
true happiness/contentment gives a sense of well-being.

A kind of inner calm. (to both individuals & organisations)

Maybe it is impossible to have total happiness at work (I used the term
contentment as it implies that there may be areas that are not totally
satisfactory, but things are progressing in a forward manner, and that the
positive things certainly out way the bad!)

Does this make sense?

Sharon.


Oh yes, it does!

since according to a Gallup research about 70 % of the employees are working
against their company, and according to a recent article in the German paper
"Die ZEIT" more than 50 % feel stressed and suffer under their working
conditions, for me it is one of the most important tasks of our time to deal
with these themes. Thank you Alexander.

Happiness - is to be happy with ... satisfied with ... content with ... with
a life, a working space, conditions, that one feels  worth to live.

Since I am optimistic about the general human approach towards work, and
towards life, our companies and firms seem to make huge mistakes if people
are so unhappy.

What is missing is a form of mutual understanding, a form of a human
communication, of seeking the inner approvement of the other. Especially
between management and coworkers.

I write this in words, but am a bit sceptical about the effect of words in
general. That is why my profession is to work with handdrawn pictures, as a
means to foster understanding and communication by drawings. And people love
it, and it helps to understand better, and maybe to increase happiness.

Every tool that helps to open the space for the often frightened inner child
is worth while, pictures if they are honored in a process, fairy tales,
metaphors, music, poetry. Honesty, curiosity, inner and outer searching.

Looking at the tremendous amount of time we are sitting or standing at the
workplace, we should use every possibility to make this place worth being
there. David Whyte (author of "The Heart aroused") paints an "experience of
work that can benefit the spirit as much as the pocket, a nourishing
approach to work ..." bringing the soul to the workplace. That stirs up our
dark side as well, but involves us as humans, not only as work force. And at
the end  could give us a reason to laugh and even be happy.

So I wish your book every possible success, and may it make people smile and
laugh !

Reinhard

Mit freundlichen Gruessen
Best regards

VISUELLE PROTOKOLLE
Kuchenmueller & Dr.Stifel

Munich Germany

Tel: +49-89-202 447 48

http://www.visuelle-protokolle.de

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