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"Make it quick
. Run like hell"
Lemmy Kilmister on Motörhead's 2013 studio album 'Aftershock', track 2: 'Coup De Grace'

"[T]try to live as consciously, as conscientiously, and as completely as possible and learn who you are and who or what it is that ultimately decides."
C.G. Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 300-301

"Win or be damned" It went trough my head before I knew I had to win -- or be damned. I was the only non-atheletic-club-member; a soloist. My spirit rode my body like a jockey on the back of a horse. Everything transcended into opportunity. Pain is only an indication of where potential for growth lies. Go trough it and you grow. It's a human law. It opens doors to slip into dark corners that otherwise remain closed. 

Because being the fastest that Saturday morning they gave me an award for it -- and that is the great thing about competitive sport: you win when you are the first to finish. Not, as in the arts or politics, because you have a way of charming the jury to award you (or annoying them and become an official looser). Winning in the arts, with all thou respect, is vulgar in a way. Like being appointed Buddhist Of The Year, or Employee of the Month. It's politics. Winning happens in the mind first. Screw awards -- excuse my French -- they merely tell the story of the people giving them away! Enjoy the game together. What Reinoud Eleveld (we spent two weeks with team and crew filming a Golf-pro training-camp in Portugal once) calls: The Spirit Of The Game.

Why are you showing the cup then in that slickly lit pack shot above; are you trying to impress?

Because from then, at that age (1982, 14 years at the time, the age of my oldest son now) what I remember is the chuckled look on the official's face while handing me the award at the price-ceremony afterwards. They didn't know who I was, where I was from. All others where decent paying members of a running club, decently dressed. I ran on normal shoes, my style must have been going against the status quo (which it has been ever since; generating quit a few laughs now and then -- which you get used to in a way -- focussing on what matters: having fun). It felt like having beaten something in how the system itself wants things to turn out. The winner is expected to come from within. 

What they didn't know was that I had trained for 3 or 4 years prior to that.

See also: "Sarsential 15: authenticity [ unified identities on integral experience of growth: personal, as a family, group or team, and tribal, within a neighbourhood, company or society ]"

Intermission: RLOVEUTION

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Above: the new Story of the People [ Story of Interbeing ]. Click on image to proceed.

"Once upon a time a great tribe of people lived in a world far away from ours. Whether far away in space, or in time, or even outside of time, we do not know. They lived in a state of enchantment and joy that few of us dare to believe could exist, except in those exceptional peak experiences when we glimpse the true potential of life and mind."

Charles Eisenstein, on page 268 - 269 of 'The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible', published by North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 2013

"A story is a sequence of related events that includes a [...] resolution. […] A narrative is a system of interrelated stories [ , ] a socio-cultural entity, and it serves a cognitive process of understanding and attention. Narratives […] operate as systems, both macro- and micro-, comprised of components such as stories, story forms, tropes, archetypes, and so forth. [ The ] vast array of cultural expression that circulates in a community or region is what we call the narrative landscape. [ A ] landscape includes specific features, such as trees, hills, and rivers, and these features all interact in an ecological system. [ L ] andscapes and their systems have characteristics [...] that influence how humans understand a locale and how they interact with it. The same is true with narrative landscapes: stories, narrative systems, and other forms of communication that enter into the narrative landscape interact with those already present. Literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin describes this interactive quality when he explains: ["] Each utterance [story, narrative, communication, etc.] refutes, affirms, supplements, and relies upon the others, presupposes them to be known, and somehow takes them into account. ["] [N] arrative is a vehicle for ideology [ , ] humans make sense of the world through a narrative logic [ . ] [ In ] the narrative arc that governs most narrative systems, a conflict initiates a desire and a series of actions and participants, [...] toward a resolution [ . ]"

Scott W. Ruston and Jeffrey R. Halverson in 'VISUAL PROPAGANDA AND EXTREMISM IN THE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT', edited by Carol K. Winkler and Cori E. Dauber, chapter 5, page 112, 113, 114, 122, 124, first published in USA, Juli 2014 by Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press

"The best victory, says Sun Tzu, is the one in which the losers don't realize they have lost. In the old story, we overcome evil and leave our enemies in the dust, wailing and gnashing their teeth. No more. Everyone is coming along for his ride. In the new story, we understand that everyone left behind impoverishes the destination. We see each human being as the possessor of a unique lens upon the world. We wonder, "What truth has this man been able to see from his perspective, that is invisible from mine?" We know that there must be something; that indeed, each of us occupies a different place in the matrix of all being precisely in order to contribute a unique experience to our evolving totality."

Charles Eisenstein, on page 200 - 201 of 'The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible', published by North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, 2013

"The screenwriting and directing workshops could take any shape […]. It was not about theory, […] everyone [was] presenting some ideas, […] we would all work together. […] I would bring students to the market [ telling them: ] first, you walk around the market, watching and listening but picking different angles, so that, for instance, instead of being the clients, you go to the side, and see as though you had put a camera behind the back of a vendor, see the rotting fruit he throws under the stall, the dogs going by, people misbehaving and so on. See what you usually don’t see. Then, note down everything that could happen in a film. That will take about three-quarters of an hour. Then we go back to school and there, the third step, you talk about what you have seen and heard. [...] Which is still different from the other two steps. And that often gave amazing results. Something that reality gives; how to see it, how to take it down, how to transmit it. That is an exciting exercise anyone can do anywhere, like I used to do with Tati and Pierre Etaix, sitting at a café. You simply look at people going by and you wonder what could happen, what could happen in a film, adapting it. It is not often and quite artificial, when reality can be inserted into a film."

Jean-Claude Carriere on 'Web of Stories' http://www.webofstories.com/play/jc.carriere/69;jsessionid=76FC291F95B079E22FFFC4553E103E3B

See also: http://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/running/118-sar-act-2-2-3

SAR_9: Injury control = interim management

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Above: SAR_9 footprint

"In any process of change, the complementary tendency toward stability must always be taken into account. If, for example, the manager puts all the emphasis on change [...] frequently the opposite response is provoked as an attitude of resistance. In The Law of Opposites, such opposition is creatively transcended trough the insight that, in the process of change, change as well as stability are always recursively involved. Any manager wanting to initiate change has to respect stability. If he wants to realise stability, he has to honour change."

Dr. Michael M. Tophoff  ('Chan Buddhism: Implications of Awareness and Mindfulness-Training for Managerial Functioning')

SAR training is Kick-Ass-training: taking-over from previous 'management' (that led to overload and injury -- usually fear driven management) and re-establish control ("Get in, get it over with and get out! "). Change requires collaboration on all levels. Trough the creation of unity the runner leads/inspires/guides/informs/balances the transformation at hand. It requires growth from egotistical overload-behaviour towards- and transformation into- an Alert-balanced runner, who emphatically and sensibly controls his behaviour. SAR training is focussed upon improvement of technique and effeciency. Trough Strategic use of available resources, including time, terrain, weather, technical-support -- and injury treatment, food and rest.

Familiar terrain for storytellers, who are trained and experienced inhabitants of this threshold zone. The best stories take place (t)here, it provides the dramatic content -- the protagonists awakening willpower and conflict coming from ignorance -- that storytellers focus upon, record and loyally show.

Mark Divine wrote in his Blog 'Trust Actions NOT Words continued…': "The relationship of those in a loyal bond is transformational versus transactional. Like trust, it is a two-way street, in that loyalty is earned through mutual action. Loyal teammates don’t tolerate negativity, backstabbing, or activities that harm the team. Loyalty requires that you examine and shore up your weaknesses so that you can carry your own load to support the team. Trust and loyalty, when accompanied by honor and integrity, lead to high-performing individuals and teams."

Mark Divine's blog 'Trust Actions Not Words continued': http://www.sealfit.com/blog/marks-blog-trust-actions-words-continued/

Dr. Michael M. Tophoff: http://www.tophoff.nl/en/

Footprint_SAR_3

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Above: Footprint after deserted dune-/beach-scape SAR 3. Fresh day, some wind from the South/West, with silver sun reflections -- 30K. Meeting Peer -- master-carpenter and builder of the new, still located at the geographical center of the Dune/Beach-training-route, 'Beach Inn' place -- driving his Land Rover on the beach, is always fun -- we regularly run into each other. Our talk lasted about 20 minutes while several flocks of returning birds from the South flew over and two bulldozers shovelled excess sand back into sea, to make way for the return of the summer-beach-houses.

Todays training dedicated to [Land Rover owner] Bastiaan Houtkooper and his web-hosting company 'Zebra hosting'. In a (telecom-)world dominated by moguls and morons, Bastiaan founded, owns and operates a state of the art web-hosting company -- his costumer support and brilliance in trouble shooting is beyond comparison, rooted in deep empathy and years of experience as high-end cinematographer for commercials mainly.

Zebra hosting website: http://zebrahosting.nl/

Bastiaan Houtkooper's personal showreel website: http://bastiaanhoutkooper.com/