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Day 3: Find Your Gremlin's Trigger Response

4/28/2017

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I have my fear patterns pointed at me by amazing Paula Colletto in her clown mask workshop last year in San Francisco. We were working on a trust fall exercise as a group. As actors, our task was to fall back behind, fully committed, trusting  that our exercise partner got our backs for life. Most importantly, we were to make sure to keep an eye contact with the audience while falling back like a graceful swan. Let me tell you, it was not a piece of freshly baked artisan loaf of bread. (I don't like cake.) Each time my partner increased the distance, thus raising the stakes, I either barked like chihuahua, annoyingly loud or completely went silent, closing my eyes and disappearing from my own body. Months later, I am realizing that getting loud and angry or disengaging and ghosting from the scene are two ways how I protect myself when a stressful event happens. This is very true for work or my improv scenes. Ten thousand light bulbs fusing through my brain with this amazing discovery!!! Thank you Paula for seeing my inner child through the veils of fear.

Realization is the first step to healing. I believe actualization will come by sharing this insight with my coworkers, family and friends, so that they can be compassionate and loving to my scared little child and not take it personally. Understanding my own patterns are helping me be more understanding with others. I inadvertantly am now noticing other people's fear/stress patterns and I say with my inside voice "Oh poor little one is just scared. It is going to be ok little one. I am here with you and we will figure things out. We have [few more days] before we hit that [deadline] and together we will make magic happen." 

Professionalism does not mean to act like a numb robot at work and suffer through a career and make others drawn down to Pacific Ocean with you. We are in this together. My healing is your healing. Your healing is my healing.

What are your patterns when compost hits the fan? If you find them, will you reveal them to everyone for the sake of global healing?
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    This is an experiment to redesign the work experience  by design thinking, improv and energy medicine.

    WHY
    Because, I feel a call to help to those who are amidst an existential career crisis. ​We are here to share our gifts with the World by becoming more of who we are. We are not here to force fit our lovely essence into prescriptive roles and to act like productive unconscious drones. We are here to co-create!

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    - if are not waking up with joy to go to work
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    BACKSTORY
    I have spent 9+ years wasting energy on blaming everything that made me miserable at my oh so perky tech jobs in the Valley. I truly felt like a fish climbing a tree 99.9% of the time. There were many urgent episodes to quit just like that with no backup plan. Many sleepless nights with tears, googling when to quit your job inquiries that returned no relief, but more frustration. I have come to realize that no matter where I go, I will probably feel this way, unless I reprogram the way I response to stress triggers at work.

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