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Alchemy

The Science of Transformation

Basic Concepts

• Alchemy is an ancient art and science that

can contribute many valuable insights to the modern healthcare manager.

• The highest leel of management is
• creation. Alchemy is the science of

creation.

Basic Concepts

• The “ordering principles” in alchemy come

from the consciousness of the CEO. The CEO asks, What is missing that would transform this situation into something better? Then the CEO then supplies the missing ingredient.

Basic Concepts

• . Modern alchemy is a process for

transforming the baser elements in any situation.

Basic Concepts

• Alchemy is the science of transformation.
• Alchemy is spiritual chemisty
• It enables you to change one form into

another form.

• Usually you change an inferior form into a

superior form – such as lead into gold.

• This is the primary job of a good manager

– to produce something better.

Basic Concepts

• Alchemy is a very specialized language

system.

• Alchemy is a multidimensional science

that incorporates the full energy spectrum

• f the universe.
• In alchemy reality is a probabilistic

clustering of moving events and is therefore mutable.

Basic Concepts

• Alchemy works with the universe and uses

subtle forces to achieve its ends rather than brute strength.

The Power of Alchemy

• Transforming the unmanifest into the

manifest

• Drawing to yourself all that is needed
• Creating preferred realities
• Perceiving the subtle energies of the

universe

• Liberating the potential in any form

The Power of Alchemy

• Integrating diversity into unity
• Transmuting negative energy into positive

energy

• Reshaping your environment
• Embracing and patterning chaos
• Exploring the infinite extensibility of

everything

• Changing the inner to change the outer

The Power of Alchemy

• Changing the future in order to alter the

present

Characteristics of the Alchemist

• Being fully present and radically open to

new possibilities

• Viewing reality as self-generated
• Using the power of synthesis
• Engaging with the universe in co-creation
• Going beyond current limitations
• Escaping your limiting assumptions

Characteristics of the Alchemist

• Experiences emergence
• Uses intuition to beyond the data
• Operates easily from neutrality
• Reframes negatives into positives
• Employs the power of symbols
• Empowers others
• Lives in a universe of unlimited abundance

Characteristics of the Alchemist

• The alchemist is a conscious agent of

human evolution.

• Accepts “what is” in order to change it
• In alchemy, the alchemist is always the

missing ingredient.

• Uses the power of designed spaces

Characteristics of the Alchemist

• Creates a beneficial alignment with the

universe

• Achieves better control of his mind/body

vehicle

• Operates from an abundance mentality
• Utilizes the power of synchronicity

The Alembic

• In alchemy an alembic was a piece of

laboratory apparatus used by the alchemist for distilling liquids. It consisted

• f two retorts connected by a tube. It was

used to purify, refine and transform

• solutions. It was a still that drew off the

essence of a liquid.

The 13 Elements

• 1. PERCEIVING A study of alchemy
• pens your door of perception. You see

and live in a larger world.

The 13 Elements

• 2. RESONATING Alchemy enables you

to form a relationship with anything in the

• universe. This relationship consists of a

two-way exchange of information and energy.

The 13 Elements

• 3. PURIFYING Personal purification

greatly increases your sense of clarity and your mental and emotional coherence. As a result you shed what no longer serves you.

The 13 Elements

• 4. STAGING The end is always in the
• beginning. A savvy manager initiates any

effort the right way by creating the appropriate first steps and then establishing a solid framework for what he wants to see develop over time.

The 13 Elements

• 5. CONCENTRATING A study of

alchemy greatly increases your powers of concentration and visualization.

The 13 Elements

• 6. ENERGIZING Alchemical processes

help the CEO build up a high energetic charge and then discharge it in successful

• rganizational accomplishment.

The 13 Elements

• 7. CONNECTING Everything is

connected to everything. We live in a relationship universe. Alchemy is the science of forming relationships.

The 13 Elements

• 8. FUSING A skillful alchemical CEO can

bring together either similar or dissimilar elements and combine them into something entirely new and better.

The 13 Elements

• 9. PUTRIFYING Some things are better

left alone to deteriorate sufficiently enough to permit transformation. The alchemical manager knows when not to jump in prematurely and try to fix things.

The 13 Elements

• 10. INCUBATING It takes a little bit of

gold to make a lot of gold. An alchemical CEO plants a small seed of what he wants to see happen. This seed is then carefully nurtured until it grows into the intended result.

The 13 Elements

• 11. DENSIFYING A challenge facing

every CEO is converting subjective ideas into objective events, programs, and

• structures. This means stepping down

from the subtle to the dense.

The 13 Elements

• 12. PRECIPITATING Precipitating is a

little bit of alchemical magic. It means evoking from the Void (the background of being) a reality in our third dimension.

The 13 Elements

• 13. SYMBOLIZING In alchemy, the

symbol is the thing at a more subtle level. Therefore the alchemical CEO must become as conversant in the world of symbols as the world of concrete objects.

Transforming Yourself

• Discovering your Being
• Attaining bliss
• Exploring multiple personal realities
• Learning to hold the mind steady
• Exploring new mental models
• Altering your consciousness, at will
• Transcending the consciousness of

separation

Transforming Yourself

• Becoming nonjudgmental

Transforming Your Organization

• It takes only a pinch of the Philosopher’s

Stone to transform a whole organization into gold.

• Building evocative organizational

environments

• Generating group energy
• Managing your organization in a much

larger frame of reference, thereby creating many more possibilities.

Transforming Your Community

• Alchemy is the ultimate art of synthesis -

how to radically improve healthcare in a community by combining existing

• rganizations and resources in a new way.

Transforming Your Community

• The alchemical CEO works in a different
• world. He can generate alternative

realities and parallel futures for his

• rganization and his community.
• The alchemical CEO is adept at creating

spaces where good things happen of their

• wn accord.

Transforming Your Community