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The Voices Within

An important component of any organization is their communication strategy. What happens in communication is deeply influenced by our understanding of power, our emotions, beliefs and experiences. These deep emotions emerge due to ineffective patterns, beliefs and experiences and become like inner figures - grouping together by the inner voices. In this workshop where we supported the cohort to explore their communication strategy, we explored the inner voices in the mental wellness sessions. We all have many thoughts in our head. Many of these thoughts are like voices. As if there is a person sitting within us speaking to us. While attending Mahabharata Immersion- a program by @Raghu Ananthanarayanan I came across this framework of inner voices. If the thoughts in our head follow a pattern, they are akin to a person sitting and talking. His framework provides seven voices, four of them are ineffective and can be transformed into effective voices with the help of the other three. When

The Drama of Life

Sometimes, I wish life was simple: everyone understood everyone else, treated each other equally, and lived a life of ease and tranquillity. Well, this is just a utopian dream. In reality, we are not meant to live a trouble-free, conflict-free life. We are meant to understand the big drama of life and work towards transforming each moment. We are meant to be tested, and life does a good job of it. When we cannot escape, we manage. The fact that humans have made progress means that we are capable of making the best of challenging situations.  What comes in the way is a repeated pattern of viewing the drama instead of tapping into our agency. When I facilitated my first mental wellness workshop for the cohort, I wondered how I could best support them. One of the primary principles we follow at Parity Lab is that each person is the expert of their reality. My job is to bring them face to face with their individual, organizational, and community realities. We began by introducing them to t