Non-combat applications/corporate realm

[parrapiti]

As I promised on another thread, here is an edited translation and invitation to share more about non-combat applications from our Shaolin Chi Kung and Wahnam Taijiquan to daily life.

As suggested in the Spanish part of the forum, there is plenty of information about the benefits of the Shaolin arts to Health, Vitality, Combat, Spiritual Joy, etc., both in Sifu´s books and on the forum. The basic idea of this thread is to focus on another aspect of these applications of Taijiquan principles and Chi Kung experiences to daily life - metaphoric applications for the Western World´s corporate realm.

Several of us are part of this forum becuase we practice/teach Wahnam Shaolin Arts, but most of us have different jobs that are not directly related to the Shaolin Wahnam School, so each of us is an "expert" in different fields other than the Shaolin Arts, so everytime one of us makes a sudden link between his/her martial arts practice and his/her own job, sharing it through this forum will expand our perspectives about the dimensions of this practice.

Apart from teaching Shaolin Wahnam Chi Kung and Wahnam Taijiquan to the leaders of our community in Latin America, I am a corporate consultant for an organizational developement firm based in Colombia. Part of my job/hobbie is to research and implement new ways through the application of non-western wisdom to generate personal/corporate developement. It is important to clarify that the term non-western and western does not relate to geographical areas of the world, but more to philosophical approaches to one´s way of life, so a different perspective for this could be "applications of non-traditional concepts to the modern western corporate world".

Lately I have been implementing a workshop on "Basic Fundamentals for Negotiatios" that incorporates concepts such as:
- Five Elemental Processes.
- Be straight, be relaxed and Smile from the Heart.
- the Art of Yielding (thank you Sifu Marcus Santer for your great thread about this topic...)
- Internal Force and "verbal Fa Jing"
- Timing and Spacing
- Start later arrive earlier
- etc.

If others are interested in these topics, I will continue adding and will start explaining. I know other instructors and practitioners are involved with corporate consulting also (Juan Pablo, Diego, Jose Antonio, ...) and it would be great to hear and share with all!

Best regards,

Piti Parra Duque

[LeeWeiJoo]

Siheng Piti,

Count me in Applying our concepts and skills to the corporate world is something new to me. Please do continue sharing with us.

With Shaolin Salute,
Lee Wei Joo

[barrys]

Siheng Pitti,

I am very interested in what you have to share. When I get chance I will share some of my experiences as well.

Barry

[parrapiti]

Lee Wei Joo and Barry!

I am looking forward to reading your comments on this thread, too. I am leaving to the mountains of Central Colombia for a couple of days and will not have e-access, but will write on my return to the "virtual" world again!

Piti Parra Duque

[Antonius]

It's been a while since I've seen any mountains (none in Florida). Please say hi to them for me, Piti.

[joko]

I am looking forward to reading your comments on this thread, too. I am leaving to the mountains of Central Colombia for a couple of days and will not have e-access, but will write on my return to the "virtual" world again!

Piti Parra Duque

And which part in our world which is not virtual?

Joko

[Jonny Say]

Dear Piti Sipak,

I would also be interested in hearing your experiences especially about the concept of 'verbal fa jing'.

All the best

[Jose Antonio]

Great thread Piti! Count me in!
Jose Antonio

[Mark Blohm]

Dear Siheng Piti,

Looking forward to everything, especially the 5 elemental processes.

Mark

[parrapiti]

Back from the mountains (Anthony - you are always a guest here, come teach, share, practice anytime...).

So here is a bit of info about the topic in hand:

While learning Wahnam Taijiquan with Sifu Wong at Sifu Rama´s place in Costa Rica (www.shaolin-wahnam-center.org), my brothers and I started making connections to his teaching sequence and our corporate workshops. Juan Pablo specializes in Strategy, Diego in Creativity and Innovation, and I focus especially on Human Interaction, High Performance Teams and Negotiations, so each of us linked it in different ways.

Here are some bases for my link between Wahnam Taijiquan, Shaolin Wahnam Chi Kung and Fundamentals for Negotiations:

1.- Most of our negotiation skills are based on our capacity to debate. When we train our negotiation skills, we usually train our rational part. In negotiation workshops it is common to see the focus on developing such concepts as "separate persons and problems", "concentrate on interests, not on positions", "insist on objective criteria", "find the Best Alternative of a Negotiated Agreement",... The developement of these argumentative criteria is very useful, but it is like external training in martial arts. The Power in a Negotiation (Pn) is a relationship between our argumentative skills and our foundations/fundamentals (Pn = A+F). Even though the position of the variables doesn´t affect the outcome, I think it is clearer to put it this way: Pn=F+A. Having concious fundamentals increases the potential of arguments, very much like having the correct stances to increase the potential of our arms and hands. But as we know, it is not enough to have a correct stance to be able to use our arms and hands to absorb, neutralize and/or redirect an attack. It also requires that we learn harmony, internal force, correct timing and spacing, ..., so the same is applicable for negotiation skills. Debate skills without the developement of the non-rational aspects of a negotiation are not enough. We need to also focus on aquiring emotional, perceptive, intuitional skills to interact with our counterparts. And all this is not enough if our basic stance is not correct (concious): A negotiation is an interaction that focuses on maximizing the valuable outcome for the maximum of parts involved. If we don´t keep this in mind, soul, body and heart throughout the interaction, then the negotiation is just a rational battle with shortsighted outcomes.

More to come!

Piti Parra Duque