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The Physis Gap
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Physis is an important and often overlooked concept that's part of personal and organisational development. You can enjoy the stories, add comments and vote in the poll.
Richard Maun writes:
In case physis is a word you're not used to (I'm sure it's a great Scrabble score, but life is just too short to bother checking) then let me explain. Basically physis means force for growth. The ancient Greeks wrote it up in their blogs as:
"A force of nature which eternally strives to make things grow and to make growing things more perfect" (Berne, 1968, p80).
In her 1992 TAJ (Transactional Analysis Journal) article Petruska Clarkson described it as "the ongoing process of change."
I have also heard it described as our 'life force' or the 'force that keeps us growing and changing'.
So, my thinking is that physis is a pretty good thing and I'm interested in it.
We all have it and I wonder if some people have more or less than others, if organisations have it as a differentiator for greater succes, or stagnation and ruin. And I wonder that when times are tough our physis splutters and coughs a bit.
Times are tough now and my thinking is to explore physis (or lack of it) in the world around us. So the purpose of this blog is to capture thoughts, stories and ideas and see where we go.
And the next place I'm going to is the fridge to eat a delicious piece of home-cooked apricot pie. The ancient Greeks also wrote on their blogs that it's the best food in the world. They were right!
