Replying to LO25569 --
Hello Ray,
So nice to read from you again. Thank you.
Being a western in training and culture and working with groups, i found
the same issues. All these issues somehow have a "split", for instance
monochronistic versus polychronic modalities of time and space, night and
day. Even this thread contains the split: western versus non-western
theories. You've highlighted why we need that: it enables us to see and
hear each other. We cannot have the light without the darkness, no
silence without sounds.
What is relevant for me at the moment, is that these "splits" seem to be
interpreted as opposites, as contradictions, negations of each other, like
darkness being the opposite of light, silence against sounds. They are,
off coursing, and at the same time they are not, becausing. Perhaps we're
living in an interesting age, were opposing realities start to meet.
I would like to add Max DuPrees "Leadership is An Art", who's stories
support your contributions, both in content and in the title. Max starts
out with the beginning and the end of the tasks of a leader. Defining
reality and saying thank you.
Warm regards,
Jan Lelie
Ray said, snipped,
> Being non-Western in training and culture but working in the arts of
> Europe and America, I have found the issues to be the use of time, space,
> language, affect and structure.
>
> For time and space, the best writer either Western or of those other
> cultures of which I am familiar is Edward T. Hall with his extensive study
> of both time and proximics. In particular the exploration of monochronic
> and polychronic modalities in leadership and communication. The most all
> around explanation is found in his book the Dance of Life but all of his
> books are wonderful.
>
> there is "no complexity for one who knows how to solve the problem." It
> is Warfield's study and exploration of pedagogy in the "Great University"
> which I find to be a very cogent description of leadership.
>
> Ultimately we define leadership as communication and that begins from the
> individual's use of language in all of its modalities before it becomes a
> part of the ensemble.
> In my work, leadership is based in the holistic term "diction" and begins
> with the person who is responsible for leadership. I would stress that
> this is probably found everywhere but this particular way of looking at it
> comes from (a.) my Cherokee culture and (b.) my training as a performing
> artist, as a conductor and in performing arts education.
>
> Diction breaks down into individual and ensemble communication. The basic
> elements of "Diction" are:
>
> 1. the above mentioned use of time and space.
> 2. Stress: or the choice of language within basic meaning and context.
> You could say, as in semiotics, Denotative and Connotative uses of primary
> language.
> 3. Awareness: an enlightened use of the modalities of the language.
> English for example has three: Polite, Familiar and Vulgar.
> 4. Tone & Trigger: Indian people are very aware of phonetics, or the tone
> used by the speaker as well as meaning on a morphemic level.
> 5. Music: This is the ensemble structure of communication that
> disseminates what the individual leader has been organizing.
> Or as Sarah Bernhardt put it:
>
> "Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that
> one becomes rich."
>
> Add to that, making it relevant down to the seventh generation and you
> have a lot of what my culture has given to me as well.
>
> Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
> The Magic Circle Opera Repertory Ensemble, Inc.
> mcore@idt.net
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