A Space for Self Awareness

Lord Buddha left all his worldly possessions to find a space to meditate. He achieved enlighment under Bodhi Tree. That was his space for himself. 

When organizations conduct training programs for employees they prefer complete disconnect from workplace. Pandemic was a different ballgame alltogether. It took everything together mixed it up in this huge jar and just gave it back, probably multiplied umpteen number of times. It did teach us an important lesson though. 

 Why is this important? What happens when we combine our work and home and play into a common space. 

Things get affected. Once your go to purpose of life becomes a distant goal and life goes from one task to another, barely surviving. In this fight for survival the most compromised is the self. 

The juggling and the tight rope walking creates two types of challenges. 

- A person is always on a lookout for space sometimes to breathe. 

- Knowing why a person is reacting the way they are seems a farout concept. 

Meditation, Exercise and so many other techniques are available but the challenge remains to find a safe space. The concept of safe space is simple- a place or environment free of harassment, criticism, judgment or emotional or physical harm. 

Creating a safe space is a joint responsibility of all stakeholders available.  It is not easy as it require contributions from every stakeholder in professional and personal space. 

What one can do is create safe space

• Set Expectation
• Facilitate Open communication
• Develop an atmosphere of confidentiality. 
• Accept Responses
• No response should be a response 
• Keep the feedback loop open

Safe space creates zone for self awareness. Only when a person is secured with themselves and others around they move into relaxed zone to know more about themselves.  

I am creating one such zone on January 19, 2021 @ 4pm. Do join in. To register https://forms.gle/Sgqsc6gUtQ8bs1hW6