{"id":1438,"date":"2013-01-16T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somatics.com\/wordpress\/mainstreaming-hanna-somatic-education-part-4-the-inevitable\/"},"modified":"2013-01-16T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T19:34:00","slug":"mainstreaming-hanna-somatic-education-part-4-the-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somatics.com\/wordpress\/mainstreaming-hanna-somatic-education-part-4-the-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstreaming Hanna Somatic Education, part 4 | The Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Inevitable<\/span> <\/b><\/p>\n

The Association for Hanna Somatic Education is the organization formally responsible for mainstreaming Hanna Somatic Education.  How is it doing?<\/p>\n

There is no Association for Hanna Somatic Education “out there”.  The Association has its home in and as we, ourselves.<\/p>\n

THE POTENCIES NEEDED TO MAINSTREAM SOMATICS<\/b><\/p>\n

To “mainstream” somatics, we need four “potencies”*:<\/b><\/p>\n

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  1. integrity<\/li>\n

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  2. relationships<\/li>\n

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  3. communication that inspires people’s sense that something is possible and do-able<\/li>\n

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  4. persistent action (attention and intention)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \nFirst potency:  integrity<\/b>
    \nIntegrity isn’t honesty.  Integrity is stable wholeness and completeness — what makes a collection of parts into something organized that produces an intended result.  When we have integrity, we are pleased to be seen.  We’re “playing with a full deck” — complete, competent, proficient.  We have the fortitude to be honest. Without integrity, we’re too shaky to be honest, particularly where it counts — in cleaning up messes and dysfunctional situations — and we’re incapable of living up to our promises.  Integrity is an essential principle that allows something to live.<\/p>\n

    Integrity is the nature of the second potency:<\/p>\n

    \nSecond potency:  relationships<\/b>
    \nWe operate as relationships of all sorts.  We connect. We cooperate. We get results. We share the benefits.<\/p>\n

    Relationships are resources. Relationships are the recipients of our gifts and abilities.  Until we forge and activate relationships, we’re left only with our own resources and stay small.<\/p>\n

    Relationships are the setting for the third potency: <\/p>\n

    \nThird potency:  communication of the advantageous possibilities<\/b>
    \nCommunication isn’t, “talking to people.”  Talking isn’t communication.  Communication happens when someone internalizes<\/u> what we mean to put across — and when we internalize what someone else puts across.  Communication is the outer form of the intentions we are exercising. <\/p>\n

    When we’re in communication, people:<\/p>\n