Finding my Core Process

Who are you?  Why are you here?  I recently took a day out to find out my Core Process, a way of working out who I am when I'm at my best. It was utterly absorbing, as with anything where you spend time talking about yourself to someone who's interested in you.

The basic concept was developed in industry as a way of finding out how individuals and teams might work together better, largely by finding out what made them happiest and most fulfilled in their work and lives. The outcome is a pair of special words which express your flame, your inner man or woman, your spiritual DNA.  One of the immediate unexpected outcomes of the first workshop was multiple resignations from the company in question, as participants felt that they had finally had their epiphany moment, and the rest of their time should not be spent in corporate life. A good example of the truth setting you free!

Core Process provides an effective way of filtering the projects that life sends your way. One outcome for me has been to focus away from client-focused writing projects (words for money) towards creative writing projects for which I have absolute responsibility.  This is both good and bad - the act of writing is now liberating, joyful, urgent and intense. But there aren't any invoices to be sent anywhere just yet, so there's a downturn in earnings. But it feels alive in a way that writing web copy or PR articles never did.

I reckon most of us are probably involved, one way or another, with a variant of our Core Process, but not quite with the real thing. When we do what we're best at doing, there's a flow and enjoyment which we don't find any other way, as though we had finally slipped into overdrive, let the roof down and settled into the driving seat.

My Core Process was done by Tom Evans (see The Flame Institute).