Green: A Manager Faces the Future—Fear vs Faith 

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In this insightful IFS session, a manager, Green, explores fears about the future, coming up with a wide variety of approaches to the problem and many diverse solutions!<ol><li>Economic Anxiety: Green expresses significant stress over economic conditions, fearing a potential Great Depression and feeling powerless to control external factors.</li><li>Coping Mechanisms: Green highlights strategies to manage stress, such as avoiding fear-based news, maintaining a low-cost lifestyle, and focusing on personal development.</li><li>Desire Management: Green discusses how limiting material desires reduces financial pressure, making it easier to navigate uncertainty.</li><li>Career Strategy and Self-Improvement: Green emphasizes the importance of developing expertise and mastering a craft (drawing on books like So Good They Can’t Ignore You). This, Green believes, creates resilience in tough times.</li><li>Decision-Making Through Energy Alignment: Green reflects on past career decisions, realizing that fear-based choices often lead to poor outcomes. Instead, Green advocates for choosing work that aligns with personal passion and energy.</li><li>Disillusionment with Institutional Changes: There is a discussion about shifting dynamics within the IFS (Internal Family Systems) community, including a sense of exclusion from traditional training pathways for coaches. This contributes to a reassessment of professional affiliations.</li><li>Letting Go of Fear-Based Thinking: Green acknowledges the need to move away from making decisions out of fear or scarcity and instead focus on love, faith, and alignment with personal values.</li><li>Grieving Change: The conversation follows a grief-like process—denial, bargaining, anger, sadness, and acceptance—regarding shifts in professional identity and community belonging.</li><li>Practical Steps: Green decides to eliminate unnecessary expenses, unsubscribe from fear-based marketing emails, and focus on meaningful professional opportunities (e.g., the IFS Unconference).&nbsp;</li></ol>Overall, this session is a fee-wheeling self-exploration of career decisions, financial stability, and personal values in the face of uncertainty, ultimately advocating for making choices based on alignment rather than fear.

This a deep, introspective dialogue between Self-energy, A, and Green, a manager. The conversation revolves around fears about the future, particularly in the context of economic uncertainty and career decisions.

Green: A Manager Faces the Future—Fear vs Faith

Melissa Sandfort

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