199: In Brilliant Conversation with Steve Morris

Steve Morris is on a mission to help organizations and their leaders rise to their potential to live and work wholeheartedly, all while making a positive impact on the world. We last spoke in episode 173 on Beautiful Questions for Challenging Times, which many of you gave us great feedback on—thank you!

Today we’re taking a page out of the Co-Active Training Institute’s playbook on Brilliant Conversations, the context for their recent open Zoom call. As CTI defines it, a Brilliant Conversation has the following qualities: 

  • Larger than how we hold a regular conversation

  • Intentional conversation where there is no answer, no destination, no problem to solve

  • Resist the temptation to converge; allow ourselves to expand, to explore, and to play

  • Place and a space where contributions come from ideas, emotions, intuitive hits or spirit or strategy—we use all of us as a resource and our entire field to contribute.

  • Divergent nature, where as so many conversations aim to converge

  • Call upon on our “brilliant mind” or collective consciousness. We create a brilliant mind together, rather than a singular mind.

  • The process is organic and flowing, much like polishing a brilliant diamond.

  • You leave with more questions than you had when you came

  • We tap into a larger mystery and unfolding that is playing out around us

  • You are attuned to what life then starts offering you back as you walk the world with these questions in your heart, spirit, and mind

I hope you enjoy this unfolding, wandering, improvised, in-the-moment conversation with Steve! Be sure to also check out his free Care Package for COVID-19.

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Check out full show notes from this episode with links to resources mentioned at http://pivotmethod.com/199

More about Steven Morris

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Steve Morris is a brand and culture advisor, author, and speaker. He partners with business leaders to mine, articulate, and activate their unique belief system to create organizational integrity, connected cultures, and evolved brands.

Steve’s book will launch in late 2020, The Beautiful Business: An Actionable Manifesto to Evolve Your Business, Brand & Culture, published by Conscious Capitalism Press.

Over his 25 years in business, Steve has worked with more than 3,000 business leaders at 250+ global and regional companies, helping them build trusted and vital brands, so they spend less time chasing customers and more time earning the trust of the people that matter most.

Steven lives in San Diego with his wife, two boys, and Aussie Shepard mix Cocoa, and is a surfer, yogi, and trail runner. 

Topics Covered

  • Defining brilliant conversations (from CTI)

  • Both/and paradox

  • Acceptance, surrender to where the intuition wants to take itself

  • What does the future look like?

  • “When you find your intuition rising, trust that it has meaning” = doublecheck quote and attribution

  • What is the data telling us? Gut/heart?

  • Heart intelligence

  • Technology of intuition

  • “Every great quest starts with a question”

  • Our character is being questioned

  • Love After Love poem 

  • Elation in transformation

  • Path of surrender and remember

  • Truest voice

  • Shifting the Rubik’s Cube of our assumptions

  • Dropping perfectionism

  • Revealing more and more of our authentic nature

  • The good, the bad, the ugly of corporate communications

  • Leadership example: daily fireside chat

  • People want to be heard, to hear ourselves think

Resources Mentioned

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