Insights from the seminar that I am leading on May 2nd, 2024.

What is the Bhagavad Gita?

Many years ago, I was sitting on my bed, and wondering about the nature of spiritualism. I considered myself a spiritual person, but I never actually did anything spiritual. What did it even mean?

I thought that if someone, somewhere, over all of history, had found something useful in the realm of spirituality they would have written it down in a way that could be read and understood by the common person.

I glanced down and there beside me, my partner’s book lay on the bedside table. There were two books, one was ‘The Deeper Dimension of Yoga’ by Georg Feurnstein, and the other ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ by Paramahansa Yogananda.

“Ahh, thought I”, maybe that is what Yoga is.

I read both those books and I what they told me was that Yoga is a step-by-step guide to self-realisation. There are many different paths, but they are all fairly well-trodden and do produce a deep sense of connection to something greater than ourselves.

I thought if this had any credibility, I should give it a go. I decided to give it one year and if nothing had changed, I would give up this notion of spirituality and move on.

I downloaded the lessons from Paramahansa’s Self-Realisation Fellowship, and I practised a mixture of that and Yoga. I got up 7 days a week and continued practising for 4 and a half years.

It changed my life.

Along this journey, I found a shortcut. The heart of the Yoga, so to speak. A manual that gives us one of those paths. That manual is the Bhagavad Gita.

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What can it tell us that is useful today about organisational change?

I have chosen just 10 insights from the first 3 chapters. For those familiar with Change, it will give a good insight in to the Bhagavad Gita and how what we are seeing in the macro world of organisations is replicated in the inner growth, and for those familiar with the Bhagavad Gita, it will provide perhaps a new insight into how useful this book can be to solve some of the challenging problems we face today.

Ultimately, for both personal and global issues, a shift in consciousness is required. This book provides a pattern for that.

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Is it practical and useful?

Over the years I have read everything from trading advice, through organisational change approaches, to personal development and diet instructions. One thing they all have in common is that no one follows them exactly.

Given this, they become less useful and less practical.

Instead, I have found that teaching people the building blocks yields more use and more benefit but less immediate satisfaction.?

People like certainty and then they move on and don’t do any of the advice. Instead, I prefer to give examples and ideas and then these sink in over time and people report back sometimes months later that it is useful. This is how this talk is, it is the ideas that you can use to make it useful for your context.

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When is the talk?

It will be online on May 2nd, at 5.30 pm BST (UK time).

You can register for the talk in one of two ways.

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1. Go to the Eventbrite site and pay to join, it is ￡30.
2. Subscribe to my Deeper Change Substack and receive a free code by email. Click on the link and it takes you to Eventbrite with a 100% discount code and you can attend the event for free.

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See you there!

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