August is associated with the astrological sign of Leo the lion. I figured this is a good month to focus on courage. In the Wizard of Oz, the lion is portrayed as cowardly and this is seen as unnatural, but it turns out that he has courage which he hasn’t yet recognized. This is true for all of us. We each have courage within which shows up at various times. When does your courage show itself?
- Interest in the material, he loves (values) George Gershwin music and learning about the brain; he’s a neurologist
- A desire to share his knowledge; he thought what he had learned was valuable for the participants at the conference
- Pleasure he has sharing the music and information
- A challenge which he set for himself to learn about biological basis of creativity and to present to a large group (valued the experience) and then
- breaking down the presentation into component parts and working on them individually and then pulling them together
- working with others who are more experienced to make this daunting task a success
- lots of practice and revision of the presentation
The excitement about the prospect of learning and sharing proceeded the action steps. He was able to get in touch with this excitement by connecting with his values – learning more about creativity and the brain, music of George Gershwin and even the idea of overcoming the challenge of speaking to such a large group as a way to expand his confidence and competence.
