About Core Process
Let’s start by asking 2 questions:
Why are you on the planet? What’s your purpose?
Most of us, if we are honest, have no idea. So how would you feel if you knew? Do you think it is likely that you would be better at your job? Do you think it likely that you would be better at a lot of things? Would you have more friends? Would you find it easier to deal with new people and situations? In short, wouldn’t you be happier?
Most of us spend a lot of our lives searching for that “something” that will make us happier. The irony is that we all of us have it already. In fact we were born with “it” – that special thing that has an enormous impact on both ourselves and those around us. And being human, we love to make things happen – to have an impact. In fact it makes us happy.
So having established that we want, if not need, to be happy. how do we go about finding what it is that makes us so good at one particular thing? This is where the work done by Chris Bull and Janet Mills in the early 1970′s at ICI (the world famous chemical company) was so important. Working with open systems planning, they realised that it’s central theme of a corporate “core mission” could be applied to individuals; that with counselling, and encouragement, everyone could find their own core mission. They called this “Core Process”.
When you discover your Core Process, you find 2 words, a verb and a noun, which describe what you do when you are at your most powerful – what some people describe as being “on fire” or “in the flame”. These words, which capture the essence of you at your best, may seem strange to others but to you, they mean everything and you understand them and the effect they have on you all too clearly.
In fact these words can be literally life changing. People often change without realising it as they (i.e. their subconscious) align everything with their Core Process. It helps them to not only cope with difficult situations but to overcome them. Speaking personally, I describe my Core Process (which is Mapping Beauty by the way) as my gyroscope which prevents me from being toppled.
To a lot of people, this will seem too “way out man”. But consider this: the ideas were formed at a major worldwide corporation, and many of the contributors to this site are pillars of the establishment who are working, or have worked, for household name companies in very senior positions.
If the Core Process experience works for them, don’t you think it just might work for you too?
I would like to thank Nick Heap who helped deliver my Core Process. He was a colleague of Chris Bull at ICI and so was very much on the leading edge of this work.