TRANSCEND CDM Transformation
Transformation approaches that integrate work-life balance and whole systems to raise awareness, adaptive resilience, leadership and consciousness into flow states
In the 1930s psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi developed "the theory of flow". Some years later, along with Dr Martin Seligman, he founded the now popular and widely known field of "positive psychology"—which focusses on increasing life happiness and productivity. Today, although Positive Psychology and its teachings have become the "must-have" empowerment utility of the armchair social media therapist, life coach and professional leadership workshop facilitator, it is the theory of flow that is now coming of age into the arena of transpersonal development and adaptive survival mastery. Flow here, is described as a state of natural concentration and engagement that is likened to a human form of a car in overdrive—one that has peaked in revs and acceleration to cruise otherwise unattainable agility and conscious states down an open highway of a life action. The flow state exists beyond fight or flight anxiety. It arises from the person's engagement and total immersion, to a point where the brain is operating on autopilot. The activity will always drive and achieve some form of success. The joyful exhilaration felt, is directly connected as a motivation coming from within. The result of that success and the act of getting into the state of flow arouses and heightens overall conscious awareness.
These factors haven't always been intrinsically linked to an emerging field of psychology favoured by US military in performance training and leadership. Many will recognise these concepts have a home in Spiritual philosophies and practices towards enlightened Self-realization. Particularly, the mystics including Buddhist and Hindu monks—who spend years evolving through disciplined meditation and kundalini yogic practices—have long been the target of scientific observation for their often seeming miraculous capabilities developed out of Spiritual Practice. Traditional practitioners and shamans around the world have also been studied in a similar manner, to discover their secrets of advanced abilities, their "sacred power". But it has fallen to our current times, where Sustainability and climate extinction threats have brought home to contemporary society how far we have come in technology and comforts for living. At the same time how much we, the people have lost in our intuitive capability, adaptive traits and general wellness that is necessary for our species survival. These days have pressed urgency and human consciousness expansion into the hands of scientific discovery for measurement and legitimacy. At this consilience point, traditional healers and Spiritual emissaries are seeing held sacred knowledge rebranded. A new coat of explanatory paint is given by neuropsychologists and physicists alike, in well heeled Ted Talks around the world. For pioneers and caretakers of Sacred ways such as Tobassa—who are working with "whole systems" integration—the rise of consciousness raising interest comes as a relief. It provides means and impetus to increase the transformation empowerment impact to those who would normally have excluded anything considered alternative.
In 1993, Tobassa founded a "whole lifestyles" Empowerment centre in Australia with the purpose and intention of integrating professional learning development with Arts, Culture, Indigenous and Complimentary Alternative Medicine (CAM) and Philosophies approaches. In the following years, connecting with Cultures, groups and individuals around the world to eventually evolve the Conscious Flow model from 2008. TRANSCEND Consilience Dimension Model (CDM) is the signature integrated "whole systems" breakthrough transformation framework. It culminates this life passage of developmental experience, consciousness abilities and contemporary research knowledge to facilitate adaptive resilience and flow living with conscious intuitive awareness.
