AUTHORITY
1. Charismatic Founder
A “charismatic founder” is characteristic of organizations - and
cults. It is hard to develop a group of leaders, and although consensus
decision-making may sound nice, it is usually ineffective. We encourage
independence, not only for organizational health but because we avoid
undue responsibility.
2. Inner Circle
An “Inner Circle” is characteristic of organizations – and cults.
Every large political party, corporation, university, church, etc has an
inner circle. We are creating a professional service organization - and we
do not want it to be revered. We are fortunate to have the friendship and
mentorship of people from many countries, each with proven
expertise in key areas.
3. Management Secrecy
Secrecy is characteristic of organizations – and cults. Many details of
your government are shrouded in secrecy. Corporations in your country
protect their commercial secrets. We plan that Soulwork will be transparent;
although we support privacy and we will attempt to control information that can
be misused by untrained people.
4. Financial Openness
Financial evasiveness is characteristic of organizations – and cults.
Financial secrecy may contaminate our role. We advocate financial
transparency.
5. Dependency
Authoritarian leadership is characteristic of organizations – and
cults. It encourages members to become or to remain dependent. We
encourage our graduate coaches to be independent.
INDIVIDUALITY
6. Conformity
Conformity is characteristic of organizations – and cults. Consider
militaries and large companies such as IBM. We encourage
individuality and we appreciate diversity.
7. Special Language
A “specialized language” is characteristic of organizations – and cults.
Groups that work together often develop jargon. Consider psycho-babble
and medi-babble. Such jargon can become a secret language. While our
systemic coaching does use some unusual systemic terms – we strive to
keep our terms simple, clear and easy to understand.
8. Dogmatic Doctrine
Norms and doctrines are characteristic
of organizations– and cults. In cults, theories became dogma. Our systemic
coaching discerns between theories and what can be readily demonstrated.
SPIRITUALITY
9. Doing good
Some cults are obsessive and distrust individual excellence. We distrust
obsession and we applaud excellence. Our coaching is based on integrity.
Instead of asking people to have faith, we repeatedly demonstrate
whatever we describe.
10. Relationship with God
Some cults claim to define God. We minimize religious and esoteric
concepts throughout our systemic coach training. We provide experiences,
demonstrations and exercises that
allow people to explore what works and reject what is not effective.
We encourage people to fulfill their goals of
happiness and well-being.
We do not support goals that appear illegal, immoral or that hurt children.
