Upcoming Book: Empathic Authenticity, EA
Excerpt 1: communication in public
Excerpt 1: communication in public
| WARNING! Abandon all nonsense all ye who enter here, but feel free to enjoy some (again?) when you leave! |
| Empathic Authenticity: An Adventure of Discovery with Chinghiz and His Friends |
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| The publication of every book, and especially a first book, is a minor miracle. But don't miracles only happen if one has no doubt there are such events as miracles? Well, yes, that is just about the only way of using words to keep the fighting dogs of religion and science from abusing each other -- unless one wants to devote one's life to the project of constructing a verbal bridge between such worthies (which is not, I hope, why I particularly was born). And because this seems to be so I believe that one in my circumstances would certainly both be obliged to one camp to recognize even a minor miracle even as he must expect to have opprobrium heaped on his head by the other. This is, furthermore, my first book, so the least I feel I must do in order to maintain a modicum of credit with both camps is to acknowledge my feeling of this particular book’s “miraculosity”. Having founded Authentix Coaches, which has set out to earn an outstandingly good reputation for helping fuse successfully the seemingly perpetually competing objectives of organizational prosperity and individual well-being, I might be feeling rather clever at having thus found a solution with at least some hope of having friends from both camps respond to my invitations in the more of less holistic if not entirely holy week that follows our annual Winter Solstice. But no, I have to make a confession. The word miraculosity was not entirely my invention. Although I doubt many dictionaries would stoop to admitting this word into their orthodoxies, I might be able to pretend that no one else has ever used this remarkably salutary word for my special circumstances. But no, that's not the case either. We “coaches in empathic authenticity” might, one would think, have a right to pat ourselves on the back when we invent, in circumstances where no other known word will suffice for a purpose in which the very survival of our friendships and client relationships is at stake, a word like “miraculosity”. But in my case, that also is not so. The enormously difficult thing for me is that I must begin by acknowledging that one of our coaches, Chinghiz Kayan , is the inventor of this fabulous new word. But now that I have taken that plunge into blatantly ego destroying honesty, I feel encouraged to tell you, dear prospective reader, that in writing my book, in which Chinghiz has won the right to figure in its pride of place, I continuously have been in gross need of this wonderful (new?) word in order that as many nonsenses as possible may be boggled from your mind, and of course as any blatantly honest author must in due course admit, mine too. Sadly, however, at least sadly to me, I have had almost no luck with my attempts at bogglement of Chinghiz's nonsenses. There seem never to have been any there for me to boggle!! Can you imagine how invaluable having Chinghiz as your partner would be? Yet I must warn you very seriously: one's ego finds its match in Chinghiz' style of nonsense boggling! But seriously, the extent to which I feel indebted to Chinghiz may perhaps best be acknowledged by reprinting here an email citing Chinghiz that I recently sent to Robert Fulford. Mr. Fulford is one of the most distinguished contributing writers to Canada's National Post. This last Fall, he wrote, in the opinion of both coach Chinghiz and me, a wonderful article entitled “Wasting time is good for your soul: Distractions can help productivity and happiness”. Chinghiz and I raved about this article because we sensed in it the intriguing hint that Mr. Fulford might have something to tell us about the possibility that wasting time, categorically a “no-no” in virtually all circles of Western society, might have some potency in healing from, or staving off, workaholism, which is now estimated to afflict between 55 and 85 percent of employed Canadians: |
| Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:33:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Angus Cunningham" <angusc@authentixcoaches.com> Subject: Authentix Coaches’ “Healing from ADD” Program: Launch Announcement 070724 To: "Robert Fulford" <robert.fulford@utoronto.ca> CC: "Douglas Kelly" <dkelly@nationalpost.com>, "Barbara Kay" <bkay@videotron.ca>, Chinghiz Kayan <cuwk@authentixcoaches.com> Dear Mr. Fulford: This is to make official an award that Authentix Coaches wishes to bestow upon you. The Award is for the first National Post article in history ever to succeed in failing to excite any criticism whatsoever from our Authentix coach Chinghiz Kayan, who has earned the reputation of being the most verbally truthful critic on Authentix Coaches' payroll. Our Award recognizes the outstanding achievement of your Post column today headlined "Wasting time is good for your soul". For your information, Mr. Kayan tells us that, when we eventually create an Award for the article in the National Post that first causes him to break out uninhibitedly in guffaws of pleasurable laughter – an event he seems confident will actually happen, he will nominate that article, and also ask you to submit your preferred alternative, which he will then, in devotion to the god of distraction, do you the special, because unique, honour of reading attentively in full. Congratulations on your award! Please hang this announcement upon your desk wall and consider its existence in appropriately framed glory thereupon as full, final, and flagrantly authentic evidence of your having been the very first recipient in history of this about-to-be-famous Award. Sincerely, Angus Cunningham Executive Coach, Management Consultant, and Sponsor of Authentix Coaches' ADD non-drug Healing Program (ADDNDHP) |
You can imagine that I had great pleasure, as did Chinghiz also, when Mr. Fulford replied graciously to this flagrant
promotion of our non-drug ADD Healing Program. And, if you would tell us that you want to know more about
"Empathic Autenticity", EA which you can do by clicking on the More Info button, below, Chinghiz and I would
have even greater pleasure to tell you!
Our non-drug ADD Healing Program needs money, because those afflicted with ADD cannot always pay for the
know-how and care by which their suffering can be relieved. Sales of EA, which now consists of 120,000 words
organized into 10 chapters laced with scrupulously authenticated narratives of the amazing adventures of Chinghiz
and his friends, will therefore benefit our non-drug ADD Healing Program.
But that's not all you will make happen when you buy a copy of EA. In addition you will get a stimulating read that
has helped many people recognize and heal the implicit assumptions by which one is held hostage to such
debilitating "isms" as workaholism or genderism. Imagine a world in which none of us are trapped in anxiety, but
all of us have work and play in a balance that ceases to despoil our environment, assures justice, and promotes
peace without limiting any fun of living, including that of Chinghizzian excellence!
Angus Cunningham, Toronto, 071221
promotion of our non-drug ADD Healing Program. And, if you would tell us that you want to know more about
"Empathic Autenticity", EA which you can do by clicking on the More Info button, below, Chinghiz and I would
have even greater pleasure to tell you!
Our non-drug ADD Healing Program needs money, because those afflicted with ADD cannot always pay for the
know-how and care by which their suffering can be relieved. Sales of EA, which now consists of 120,000 words
organized into 10 chapters laced with scrupulously authenticated narratives of the amazing adventures of Chinghiz
and his friends, will therefore benefit our non-drug ADD Healing Program.
But that's not all you will make happen when you buy a copy of EA. In addition you will get a stimulating read that
has helped many people recognize and heal the implicit assumptions by which one is held hostage to such
debilitating "isms" as workaholism or genderism. Imagine a world in which none of us are trapped in anxiety, but
all of us have work and play in a balance that ceases to despoil our environment, assures justice, and promotes
peace without limiting any fun of living, including that of Chinghizzian excellence!
Angus Cunningham, Toronto, 071221
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| Excerpt from Author's Preface (c) 2007 by Angus Cunningham angusc@authentixcoaches.com |