Alice’s Chat #2 – Go meditate

Lately shared governance experiments are becoming popular and institutionalized and that’s really cool! But we’ve been testing for a while now and we’re getting feedback. Let’s not make the same mistakes again.

I’d like to talk about benevolence. It seems that it is a prerequisite for managers, that you can get it with a training at only 3100€ for 2 days. 

« A benevolent leader increases the sense of well-being of his team members. » Kalliance

Do you have your Benevolence certificate?
Shared governance empowers us, gives us back power, gives meaning to our actions. They say that benevolence is a pillar of cooperation. So be it. What better quest than to be a benevolent person? What bothers me is when benevolence is considered a prerequisite that can be trained through personal development practices such as meditation.

Kindness as a hards skill? 0o

The way we try to teach benevolence through expert communication techniques through body and speech can quickly drift into a tool for controlling individuals within a group. This reminds me of the positive thinking movement unmasked by HappyCratie.

« Happiness can be built, taught and learned: this is the idea to which positive psychology claims to confer scientific legitimacy. It would be enough to listen to the experts and apply their techniques to become happy. »

In this essay, we understand, among other things, how positive thinking clears the system of your misfortunes. The solution is within you it seems.

Ok, I will meditate tomorrow morning but right now, this is the system I would like to discuss.

If we don’t know a magic formula in terms of governance, we know that there are at least two essential ingredients that we sometimes forget: honesty and time. In my humble experience, I have seen benevolence used as a shield against dissonant sounds. I have seen it used as a tool to manipulate the disruptive Other. 

I think that the abuse of benevolence is a symptom of a lack of empathy, undermines intellectual honesty and is a generator of taboos, standardization of opinions and oppression of minorities of thought. 

Otherness is a richness. Open your mind, not your chakras.