The work of Contegrity is whatever work needs to be done to have living be fulfilling. We often find ourselves addressing important areas of life and giving a new view of them. It seems that our everyday culture has taken over the thinking about important areas of life and turned them primarily into excuses for shopping.
We have revitalized the conversation and practices around communication, relationship, development, and accomplishment, among others. For those involved with Contegrity, each of these areas leads naturally to the others: communication to deepened relationship, relationship and communication to development, and development to accomplishment.
A large area that Contegrity has taken on is to be a place where one's deepest strengths can be recognized and articulated, and where one's life mission or aim can be recognized with clarity. This seems to be a central component of a fulfilling life and is often undermined by the everyday comparison people make of themselves with others. Contegrity supports people in fulfilling the life they have been given with the "cards they have been dealt" and shows that that is more than sufficient.
In many ways, the job of Contegrity is to demonstrate through its people, over and over again, that we all have what we need for fulfilling life, and that being whole-hearted and fully engaged, and doing so in a discerning way, is sufficient for fulfillment.
There are several orientations that Contegrity fosters that lead more naturally to a fulfilling life. Here are a few that we find under-appreciated in everyday conversation and understanding:
- Being Connected: that we are already connected to others and to life and hence aren't a separate unit figuring out how we want life and others to be. This orientation gives a more sound starting place for establishing fitting intentions for one's life.
- Belonging to life: being willing to have the issues of our times and start where we are in life is part of a deep sense of belonging that makes our challenges and issues meaningful, and lets us select the "right-sized" challenge to resolve and fulfill next.
- Fulfillment: making fulfillment the background of our lives makes room for a deeper appreciation of how full life can be and how deeply satisfying accomplishments can be when they are congruent with how life works and where life wants to go.
- Living from your unique strengths: There is one place and one place only that each of us ought to reach into when life really counts - and that is our unique and fundamental strengths. They aren't arbitrary nor are they ever-changing. In this area, we are deeply consistent and have a wealth of experience and insight to draw upon. It is a missed opportunity when people bet their success and enjoyment of life on anything else (on wiles, on others' advice, on "what everybody knows", on family tradition, on the common sense wisdom of one's education, etc.)
- Time as an unfolding: getting familiar with what is already in time, what can be, and what is involved in having life turn out well makes a new time orientation in which it is possible to be satisfied both while turning life out, as well as satisfied when it turns out.