Alchemy the modern healthcare manager. The highest leel of - PDF document

Basic Concepts  Alchemy is an ancient art and science that can contribute many valuable insights to Alchemy the modern healthcare manager.  The highest leel of management is creation. Alchemy is the science of The Science of Transformation creation. Basic Concepts Basic Concepts  The “ordering principles” in alchemy come  . Modern alchemy is a process for from the consciousness of the CEO. The transforming the baser elements in any CEO asks, What is missing that would situation. transform this situation into something better? Then the CEO then supplies the missing ingredient. Basic Concepts Basic Concepts  Alchemy is the science of transformation.  Alchemy is a very specialized language system.  Alchemy is spiritual chemisty  Alchemy is a multidimensional science  It enables you to change one form into that incorporates the full energy spectrum another form. of the universe.  Usually you change an inferior form into a  In alchemy reality is a probabilistic superior form – such as lead into gold. clustering of moving events and is  This is the primary job of a good manager therefore mutable. – to produce something better.

Basic Concepts The Power of Alchemy  Alchemy works with the universe and uses  Transforming the unmanifest into the subtle forces to achieve its ends rather manifest than brute strength.  Drawing to yourself all that is needed  Creating preferred realities  Perceiving the subtle energies of the universe  Liberating the potential in any form The Power of Alchemy The Power of Alchemy  Integrating diversity into unity  Changing the future in order to alter the present  Transmuting negative energy into positive energy  Reshaping your environment  Embracing and patterning chaos  Exploring the infinite extensibility of everything  Changing the inner to change the outer Characteristics of the Alchemist Characteristics of the Alchemist  Being fully present and radically open to  Experiences emergence new possibilities  Uses intuition to beyond the data  Viewing reality as self-generated  Operates easily from neutrality  Using the power of synthesis  Reframes negatives into positives  Engaging with the universe in co-creation  Employs the power of symbols  Going beyond current limitations  Empowers others  Escaping your limiting assumptions  Lives in a universe of unlimited abundance

Characteristics of the Alchemist Characteristics of the Alchemist  The alchemist is a conscious agent of  Creates a beneficial alignment with the human evolution. universe  Accepts “what is” in order to change it  Achieves better control of his mind/body vehicle  In alchemy, the alchemist is always the missing ingredient.  Operates from an abundance mentality  Uses the power of designed spaces  Utilizes the power of synchronicity The Alembic The 13 Elements  In alchemy an alembic was a piece of  1. PERCEIVING A study of alchemy laboratory apparatus used by the opens your door of perception. You see alchemist for distilling liquids. It consisted and live in a larger world. of two retorts connected by a tube. It was used to purify, refine and transform solutions. It was a still that drew off the essence of a liquid. The 13 Elements The 13 Elements  2. RESONATING Alchemy enables you  3. PURIFYING Personal purification to form a relationship with anything in the greatly increases your sense of clarity and universe. This relationship consists of a your mental and emotional coherence. As two-way exchange of information and a result you shed what no longer serves energy. you.

The 13 Elements The 13 Elements  4. STAGING The end is always in the  5. CONCENTRATING A study of beginning. A savvy manager initiates any alchemy greatly increases your powers of effort the right way by creating the concentration and visualization. appropriate first steps and then establishing a solid framework for what he wants to see develop over time. The 13 Elements The 13 Elements  6. ENERGIZING Alchemical processes  7. CONNECTING Everything is help the CEO build up a high energetic connected to everything. We live in a charge and then discharge it in successful relationship universe. Alchemy is the organizational accomplishment. science of forming relationships. The 13 Elements The 13 Elements  8. FUSING A skillful alchemical CEO can  9. PUTRIFYING Some things are better bring together either similar or dissimilar left alone to deteriorate sufficiently enough elements and combine them into to permit transformation. The alchemical something entirely new and better. manager knows when not to jump in prematurely and try to fix things.

The 13 Elements The 13 Elements  10. INCUBATING It takes a little bit of  11. DENSIFYING A challenge facing gold to make a lot of gold. An alchemical every CEO is converting subjective ideas CEO plants a small seed of what he wants into objective events, programs, and to see happen. This seed is then carefully structures. This means stepping down nurtured until it grows into the intended from the subtle to the dense. result. The 13 Elements The 13 Elements  12. PRECIPITATING Precipitating is a  13. SYMBOLIZING In alchemy, the little bit of alchemical magic. It means symbol is the thing at a more subtle level. evoking from the Void (the background of Therefore the alchemical CEO must being) a reality in our third dimension. become as conversant in the world of symbols as the world of concrete objects. Transforming Yourself Transforming Yourself  Discovering your Being  Becoming nonjudgmental  Attaining bliss  Exploring multiple personal realities  Learning to hold the mind steady  Exploring new mental models  Altering your consciousness, at will  Transcending the consciousness of separation

Transforming Your Organization Transforming Your Community  It takes only a pinch of the Philosopher’s  Alchemy is the ultimate art of synthesis - Stone to transform a whole organization how to radically improve healthcare in a into gold. community by combining existing  Building evocative organizational organizations and resources in a new way. environments  Generating group energy  Managing your organization in a much larger frame of reference, thereby creating many more possibilities. Transforming Your Community Transforming Your Community  The alchemical CEO works in a different world. He can generate alternative realities and parallel futures for his organization and his community.  The alchemical CEO is adept at creating spaces where good things happen of their own accord.