New Life 298 – Creativity At Work
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Tal Mandelbaum ben Moshe

How can we be more creative in the workplace? What sort of communication should we develop between us for this and what is the benefit of an integral workshop in comparison with brainstorming?

Due to the acceleration of change in society, today’s work environment requires teamwork. We are no longer meant to advance and research in a multitude of specialized domains and areas of narrow expertise where we don’t even speak the same language. Instead, everything will stem from connection.

Great ideas are born from interaction and collaboration with each other. Nature is leading us toward organizations where domains won’t exist; rather, we will see nature in a round way. We will connect from within with all the phenomena of nature.

It will be worthwhile to establish a team in every factory and organization that engages in integrative artistic creativity. What are the necessary conditions for this to happen? Such a team must undergo internal change through integral education. Brainstorming should look like a workshop—no one has the answer, but we should each wish for an idea to be born in the other. Our progress will come when we connect with each other internally at the level of feelings, not on an external level. Internal conflicts between people will bring about connection on another level. It’s as if we create a new person as the fruit of love rather than ego, of bestowal rather than receiving for oneself. This character becomes much more creative, from a new level of existence.

Once we are able to include the others and be included in them, the team can proceed to engage with a specific problem or challenge. Solutions will emerge from rising above internal conflicts between people.

We need to create unity around the idea of the problem before us. It will be resolved if we elevate it to a higher degree, because that challenge doesn’t exist there. Every problem is a result of lack of connection; thus, if we connect we will solve the problem and see the solution to it. We generate an action out of a felt solution agreed upon by everyone. It becomes clear on its own in the Partzuf we have built. If there is no solution, it means that we didn’t reach connection.

A truly connected team can solve any problem, from any field, even one that has nothing to do with it.

From KabTV’s “New Life 298 – Creativity At Work,” 2/11/14
This summary was written and edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman

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