| Possible Jacket Front Flap (key web search terms shown as links to Yahoo Search Engine) Founding Authentix Coaches to make a living without having to pretend took Angus Cunningham to the brink of losing nearly all that he valued. But his essential self survived. How did he do it? Most people accept that some shading of "the truth" is necessary now and then. But Angus couldn't -- for reasons his story makes fascinatingly clear. So, in extremis, he found a solution, and it has led to linguistic practices that have helped entrepreneurs and people in a diverse range of walks of life not only avert disaster but actually flourish. Now he and his clients and colleagues reveal his secrets. Angus says "We can make a fulfilling living finding the words to express our true selves – by practice of what I sometimes call 'empathic authenticity' and at other times refer to as 'responsible freedom'". His book tells us the simple but powerful principles of genuine communication that he found he had to invent and prove to help himself and the people from a wide range of predispositions drawn, because of very challenging circumstances, to pay attention to his ideas and perspectives. Drawing on stories from his own life and that of members of his far-flung and ancient family, Angus inspires us to try his problem-solving principles – starting with the “I have ‘X emotion’ now” (IHXEN) psycholinguistic. The IHXEN linguistic and its rational sequel, IHYNN, have become the foundation of Eye-Zen English, which is now much more than just "Angus-speke". Yes, Angus has consulted for Mitsubishi Juko in Japan, and he has visited Zen gardens, and he does think the Dalai Lama is great, and he certainly admires Marshall Rosenberg's practical approaches to nonviolent communication (NVC). Yet, when he visited Kyoto, he stayed in a Holiday Inn, and the closest his spirit ever got to Darmsala, India, where Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama lives today, was when his grandparents were married there. As for NVC, he's got some serious suggestions for enhancing it with Eye-Zen English. He wants also to tell you how his cousin thrice-removed, Claudie, a Canadian lady living in New South Wales, Australia, suddenly appeared over the Internet to explore whether the great grandfather they share, Major General Percy Scudamore Cunningham, might have been much more than a "Gilbert and Sullivan modern major general”. For was he not -- as lives on in the lore of the post-Rajian pride of his ancient family -- the architect of India and Pakistan's arterial road system? Certainly there are Cunningham Roads all over the former British Empire. Well, so what? Is it credible that Angus, a refugee in Toronto from that “stuffy fossil” known as the British Raj, can tell English-speaking people who are successful today anything truly worth learning about communications? Well, he’s had to learn a lot, and his remarkable devotion to veracity has given him an extraordinary range of experience. But the proof of his truth pudding is, of course, ‘in its raisins’: his clients truly benefit from practice of the Eye-Zen linguistics included in his coaching. They report they've grown in insight into the leadership, inspirational communications, and means to personal well-being that are the trinity of good things available from Authentix coaching. Possible Jacket Back Flap Are you asking “What, in heaven’s name, is empathic authenticity? Or what, in tarnation, is Eye-Zen English? And how practical IS this stuff about responsible freedom anyway?” We’ve asked those questions, exhaustively; and, in a nutshell, this is Angus’ reply: “Simple, my dear inquisitors. Try a spot of Eye-Zen English and you’ll soon find yourself solving problems you never dreamed you could!” Well, if that doesn’t satisfy your curiosity, you’ll have to ask Angus and his daughter for dinner. Want to know what they look like before inviting them? In any case, Emma says she could do with some help taming her “Tiggerish” father. So who would that be? Or perhaps he's in one of these poses .....................? ...or possibly in this snapshot? |
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| Sometimes, one has to have dinner with an author like Angus to tell! But if dinner with Emma and Angus would be too much for you, you can always ask one of the two where you can bbuy the book! And by the way, Angus’ clients are so pleased with their investment in becoming proficient at the art and science of communicating, in challenging moments, in Eye-Zen English that they’re by no means at all very keen on you catching up with them. But as for us long-suffering editors, we’ve found they bear his claims out, so …. |
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| Possible Jacket Back Cover Lying, or even pretending, is not comfortable for long. It increasingly requires a perverse discipline. It may begin naturally, but it gets harder to maintain, and it entrains horrendous future costs. Yet, Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker writes, in his widely read tour-de-force, “The Stuff of Thought”: "We expect people to sheathe their words in politeness and innuendo and other forms of double speak”. Angus doesn’t like that expectation. Indeed, even if it's almost true, it's got what he calls a Loch Ness monster in it, and Loch Ness monsters tend to unleash the wilder elements of Angus' veracity. He really gave way to his wild streak when he gave a second birth to IHXENs, of which A.J. Jacobs, author of "My Life as an Experiment", and "The Year of Living Biblically", and Editor at Large of Esquire Magazine tells us: "I have much gratitude now! And many other IHXEN's toward you. I loved reading your theories -- and love the co-aching concept as well." Angus was born in 1942 in Simla, the British Raj’s summer capital, and moved 12 times in the next 4 years before he and his mother’s half of his Army family, moved to England. He says his ayahs, heirs of Mohandas Gandhi’s soul force, kept him warm, fed, and properly in nappies while his parents fought Tojo’s attempted invasion and calmed independence riots for as long as London told them they should. Like Yasmin Khan, author of “The Great Partition”, Angus thinks the truth or otherwise of words is much more crucial than most people today believe. "For perhaps 500 generations," says Angus, "people have felt truth to be sacrosanct – even if that meant fighting for whose truth was God or whose God was truth, so the common expectation today to which Steven refers might well be collective insanity. Yet it might also be wisdom, or even love, in certain circumstances." Which is it when? Angus isn’t about to let the world’s most influential psycho-linguist get lightly away with telling us what might only be true mainly around the circles accessible to Harvard research scientists, and Angus, let it be known, got his Dean's Honours MBA from Penn's Wharton Business School. |
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| What People Are Saying About ["Veritable Language", prelim. Book Title] List of Possible Introducers or Influential Reviewers. (Please Note: None of these distinguished people have yet been approached in this context, but Angus is in creditable connection with all -- except Steven Pinker, who probably does not yet know that Angus exists). Steven Pinker Author of “The Blank Slate” and “The Stuff of Thought” Yasmin Khan Author of “The Great Partition” Hank Davis University of Guelph Psychology Professor & Author of “Caveman Logic” Robert Fulford Columnist with Toronto’s National Post Linda McQuaig Author of “The Cult of Impotence” & Columnist with the Toronto Star Ron Charach MD Toronto Poet-Psychiatrist & Author of “Cowboys & Bleeding Hearts” Thomas Walkom Columnist with the Toronto Star Michael D. Young PhD President, Social Science Automation, Columbus, Ohio .. .. .. |
| This book/educational project will introduce and encourage new linguistics-based habits of self-monitoring, centering, listening, thinking, initiation, and responsible problem-solving connection. Everyone's habits in these domains can be described as 'sometimes robotic'. Tragically, absent-minded uses of language can 'corrode' either one's own or another's self-image so much that they will erupt in unlimited desires for independence, and/or freedom. and/or self-entitlement. Acting out such desires can all-too-easily stall or reverse the gains in quality of life that advancing human knowledge and insight would otherwise make possible. Can we make our uses of language much more persistently rational (from a universal perspective) in problem-solving oriented to meeting serious needs than is usual in almost every circle of influence today? This is the urgent challenge this project addresses. Participation in this project will empower people to make progress in the urgent necessity to free English-speaking communities from violence-inciting/triggering or insight-obscuring uses of language. Given the stakes, I hope you will feel invited to participate in this project. |
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| Family communication styles and habits are like the water in a swimming pool: they can be polluted without any family member being much aware of what the form or source of the pollution is. This is well-established science now, although not everyone in the medical or psychiatric professions appears yet to be fully aware of the linguistic implications of this science for the communication to their patients/clients and their family members of "diagnoses". (If any Cunningham should want, I can circulate some material on this subject). It is also a founding premise of this book, a truly family-wide venture if ever there was one. While still in the blissful space of not being responsible for the consequences of a book's title for its success in book store sales, I have begun to call this book "Presumption Free! A sure path to genuine communication in trying times". Having that aspirational title in mind, let's each venture forth in to the windy and sometimes ominous storm clouds of these unsettled times, with malevolence toward none, with as much love for others as we can spare from the work of maintaining our own equanimity, confident in the idea that, as my father, Peter Cunningham, field commander of many active and distinguished battalions, including the 7th Gurkha Rifles, so often used to say in ways that unfailingly amused and warmed many hearts, mine among them: "Have no fear, for lo, Cunninghams are here!" Cunninghams are indeed gathering, so my father's words seem today to call forth the courage, faith, and goodwill that has got us Cunninghams through all the military and other challenges that have faced, and continue to face, both our women and our men! Now isn't that true, O all ye far-flung Cunninghams? Angus |
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Men are what count in a military family! |
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Sorry about the notes. They exist. But they're in the book. So, if you have interest in them, please let me know, and you'll have the latest version of the notes pronto! - Angus |
| Angus requests feedback. Please write to him by email. If you would please try to begin your email with "I have 'X' emotion' now" because I ......................................", you would make him very happy! Not only that, you would get some experience of the remarkably potent properties of the IHXEN linguistic. If, in trying to do so, no label for your emotion seems right/satisfying, then that's entirely OK! You are in good company. In the current culture prevailing almost everywhere, we have forgotten how to label our emotions accurately from the points of view of recognizably trustworthy truth and neurolinguistic health. But Angus thinks the Plantagenet Court of England knew how. In any case, here's a partial list of emotion nouns that may help you make a right/satisfying selection: |