Matthew’s Blog

A new internet friend  of mine Peep Laja, an Estonian who found himself in the United Arab Emerates and is now galavanting around the world creating interesting websites.  The latest is for all the catlovers out there.  Catpert!  http://www.catpert.comикони

In my last post I talked about Malcolm Cohan and his coming to Minnesota.  I also said he was re-editing some of his earlier works.  Well today he just released one of the them.  It’s awesome.   It speaks to what he’s up to.

I just love the backdrop this round.

I’ve launched my new online store.   No more jerry-rigging the payments for programs and classes.  Now you can purchase an ebook and webinar, but soon will be assessments and classes.

I’m using ZenCart which is an open source project http://www.zencart.com because I am a big fan of open source projects and this one came highly recommended.   Setting up shopping carts is not for the faint of heart or web illiterate.  I consider myself to be pretty literate with respect to the web and this was/is an interesting challenge.      I could have gone for http://www.practicepaysolutions.com and will consider it again if I run into too many snags with this.

I’ve posted a recording of the Bioneer’s Presentation I did last Saturday on the

http://www.MakingTheWorldRoundAgain.com website

I had a fantastic opportunity this weekend to share with people the work I have been noodling for about 10 years now about what is going on in the world and what is emerging. Its comes from a place of what I do best - integrating complex ideas and weave the common thread amongst them.

It is a speech about hope for business and all of us. I am looking for continued opportunities to present this material to a wider audience. Click on the title to go to the speech’s website.
Making the World Round Again
Speech/Presentation by Matthew Egan Rochte
While pessimism rules and hope appears scarce, a recent convergence of business, science, and spirituality is creating conscious capitalism and restoring hope to the future.

Presented at the Northland Bioneers Conference on Oct 21st 2006
Resource Sheet handed out at the Northland Bioneers Conference (pdf)
http://www.makingtheworldroundagain.com

Book Review – The Anatomy of Peace

What if conflicts in the world, personal, and work life all source from the same root cause? What if we systematically blind ourselves to that cause? And what if, as a result, we are unwittingly perpetuating the very problems that we believe we are trying to solve?

These are the questions that the Arbinger Institute answers in The Anatomy of Peace

I have been a raving fan of the Arbinger Institute’s work going on three three years now since I was shaken to the core by the work as I experienced my family, my brother in particular in a whole new light. A light I could no longer ignor. My work with the Arbinger material has been transformational for me, my clients, and their companies. So much so that Leadership & Self Deception (L&SD) became required reading for all of my clients.

This has created a slight dilemma since not all of my clients are business people. While those that are don’t always want to read “another” business book. Heck, even I put off reading the thing for nearly a year because I was a “leadership” coach, what did I need to learn about “leadership”? The short answer – EVERYTHING, anew.

So I was overjoyed when I learned that they released a new book last month. The Anatomy of Peace is a book that I can recommend to anyone. The language is different, the intended audience is different, but the heart of the matter is still solid as ever. This is a book for everyone & business people too. It takes the work much deeper than L&SD and applies it to life circumstances from family relationships to international conflicts. It is all based on true events and a real executive and the experiences at the Anasazi Foundation Arbinger’s partner in intervention.

The Anatomy of Peace is a prequel to Leadership & Self Deception. It is the story of Lou Herbert, the founder of Zagrum (the company in L&SD) and his journey to Camp Moriah (Anasazi) where he & his wife have taken their troubled son for an outdoors survival program to straighten him out and attend a two day seminar for the parents. We get to find out about what Lou’s transformation process was that began the journey of L&SD. The camp is lead by two unlikely leaders: Yusuf-al-Falah, an Arab, and Avi Rozen, a Jew, each of whom lost their fathers at the hands of the other’s ethnic cousins. The Anatomy of Peace is about how they came together and now work at bringing peace to children and parents who are at war with each other.

This is a powerful book. In many respects it is like being a fly on the wall during part of an Arbinger program. Fans of L&SD will not be disappointed as there is a great deal of new material here. All the juicy stuff they’ve been learning since L&SD was released has been added to the mix. I love the new terminology of the heart at peace & the heart at war. This really puts a firm grip on the issue and takes it out of the logical mind. We can all relate to it. “In the box” and “out of the box” never really worked for me, it seems sterile. This wording touches my soul. The box analogy hasn’t been jettisoned though. It still has a place, especially when mapping out collusion and diagramming the process. They introduce a startling and powerful concept of boxes that we carry with us and how we all in one degree or another carry one or more of these: the I am better than box, the I must to be seen as box, the I am worse than box, and the I deserve box. I think I have visited all four of these in the past four years. How about you? This work applies to all of us. Who are you in relationship with your client? The world? Your spouse?

Matthew Rochte – Seasoned Coaches Coach, Executive Coach, & Coaching Pundit.
Matthew is about helping people be GREAT! To help is coach clients be great
they dive deep to explore the human functioning model, perceptions, business
practices, Arbinger work, SQ Spiritual Intelligence, & Coaching From Within.
He helps his business clients be great by applying the above and working
with their Spiritual Capital & relationships so they can be great.
Matthew is a 15year coaching veteran, serves on the ICF Ethics &
Standards Committee & is MCA’s 2005 Past President
http://www.coachingintentionally.com http://www.workingintentionally.com

© Copyright 2006 Matthew Rochte, used with permission

FYI: I get no kickback from this, I’m just excited.

I have been eyeing the Treo650 since they came out a little over a year ago.  I didn’t have a reason to switch, as I’ve had my trusty Samsung I300 for nearly 6 yrs with hardly a glitch.  However over the past year my computing needs have upgraded my computer, connections, and software.  Now my 6yr old palmphone no longer syncs reliably with ACT.  So.  . . I bit the bullet and found a deal.

I purchased my Treo650 through Sprint PCS Business for $99 (eventually, I’ve got a rebate and service credit to process first).
If you are interested in the offer you’ll need a business id (fed tax id usually) and a good credit rating.  Goto
http://www.sprint.com/business/products/phones/650_allPcsPhones.jsp or http://snipurl.com/njkn

Lots of places on the net talk about the standard features.  However here are some features they don’t talk about that I have recently discovered

• You have to buy a PCS Vision Package (you do not however have to buy the whole shebang with photoemail, etc.) For just $10 you have a moderately high speed internet connection from your phone which is unlimited (no minutes used).  This is actually a great deal (sure beats the $40 pricetag they originally had on this)
• With fair and flexible plan and this vision plan I am actually reducing my cellphone bill by nearly $20/mth (pays for the phone in 5 months)
• when you click on a url in you can surf straight to that site
• when you click on a phone number on a website your phone can dial the number for you.
• There is gobs of freeware and shareware out there for the Palm Treo one of the coolest that I have found so far taps into googlemaps called KMaps www.where.com
• email (you can leave your mail on the server if you wish to just check for a message)
• I can now take Credit Cards again on my palmphone with www.merchantanywhere.com (low cost provider, however they are no longer taking coaches as vendors - say you are a consultant) (My old phone and software were tied to the discontinued palmnet).

Then you have all the other fun features like
camera, mp3 player (with SD card), fun ringtones, cool factor, my uptodate database at my fingertips, my calendar up to date and current.

Its FUN!!

Hope this was more informative than rambling.