Facts and Capabilities of Transformational Consulting 

Gaining Clarity

Since these services were first developed in the 1970s for corporations and other organizations, we know that there has almost never been an instance where anyone clearly understood their dynamics, application, potential and importance through reading. We in OIC have had many documents on this but we know that only through in depth discussion with the experts can prospective clients attain the clarity they need for effective decision making.

Then why the documents? In organizations it is customary to read about services of all types. Most expect and request documents or brochures. In most cases this usually suffices because the majority of services and products in the market are familiar to prospective clients. They easily fall into well known categories and thus the assumptions made about them are often reasonably accurate.

The problem with reading about ontology based transformational services is that they do not fit into any category that the average person would be familiar with. The only exceptions are former corporate clients, select training and development experts and those grounded within segments of the human potential field.

So when someone is busy at work, they tend to skim through things quickly, make a quick or automatic category assumption comparing what they read to things that seem similar to them. However, since the average person has no familiarity with ontology based or transformational services and the breakthrough results they make possible, reading about them where there is no expert feedback can result in these services bypassed.

Those of us in OIC and in the transformational consulting field know that such services are urgently needed by  government and multilateral institution officials committed to solving major national and global challenges. Recognized or not, the fate and well being of our world hangs in the balance. There is no question that the majority of threats we face in the world today are not being resolved effectively or at all. Many of the solutions in progress involve armed force where millions over time have died, been injured or have suffered unspeakable hardships. We list these problems in our document “Global Challenges”. 

In general while people like to think they assess things newly, the reality is that we are unaware of the fact that we continually filter our assessments of people, places, things, behavior, words and ideas through a mental prism of things we have experienced or learned from the past. This is why thinking “outside the box” is rare and why many things related to behavior remain the same over time.     

Accurate Assessment Requirements 

1-To attain sufficient and useful clarity on the various aspects, principles, potential, application, results and execution of these services requires one and possibly two in depth preliminary discussions with an expert consultant trained in this methodology. 

2-Those seeking clarity must have a very serious and driving passion to succeed in completing their challenges however difficult they may seem.

3-They must not only be very serious, they must also be open-minded enough to pursue any possible and sensible approach to succeed in attaining breakthrough results. This is not for curiosity seekers with nothing of monumental significance at stake.     

Basic Individual and Group Capabilities

One of the fundamental aims of transformational services is the expansion of conscious awareness. Without that, the possibility of unprecedented breakthrough results would not be possible. 

1-Breakthroughs in the ability to identify critical obstacles beyond current levels of conscious awareness. These are factors acting as obstacles that go continually unrecognized and bypassed. They interfere with successfully formulating and executing breakthrough solutions for any security, humanitarian and environmental challenge.  

2-Breakthroughs in distinguishing the multiplicity of productive and counter-productive “interpretations” of circumstances, comments and actions that divert the possibility of effective communication and cooperation.

This is a critical capability because if for instance a diplomat negotiates based on his or her pre-existing negative interpretations he or she will not be able get on an optimum channel with their negotiating partner. Therefore, their discussion will produce little or no progress.  It may even contribute to expanding resentment, hostility and reversing any progress previously made.     

3-A new ability to effectively resolve longstanding resentment and animosity standing between adversaries that thwart cooperation in present day negotiations. This is one of the most common issues widely ignored by parties in policy formulation and in conflict negotiations. Discounting the profound impact of the past is a major “blind spot” in foreign relations. It puts every possible initiative in jeopardy. We just cannot reasonably expect to write something new on a blackboard without erasing what is already on it. Taking full responsibility for harm done is required.
 
4-The ability to identify the factors necessary to produce outstanding diplomatic results without the use of manipulative and coercive measures. (Ex. Sanctions, condemnation, political pressure, threats, armed force, etc.)

Manipulative and coercive tactics may seem useful to some but source hostility, resentment and retaliation in the short and long term.
Their extensive use is a result of counter-productive interpretations; automatic reaction based relating and communicating, responsibility not taken and the inability to identify effective non-coercive options.  When people cannot distinguish between talk and useful communication, they are off the same channel and contribute to increasing serious problems.

Definition of diplomacy: A skill in solving problems without arousing hostility.

Communicare: Latin… To draw together

5-By the dramatic expansion of conscious awareness, the ability to find solutions to all types of challenges become possible. This covers everything from highly effective team building to unprecedented breakthroughs in cooperation to developing new defensive and intelligence systems. 
 
Background: Ontology Based Consulting Services

The transformational consulting methods that OIC advocates are based on ontological research and development. Ontology is the study and science of being. Ontology based services were developed by cutting-edge companies and organizations over the last 3-4 decades to elicit the limitless potential of individuals and organizations. They produce outstanding breakthroughs in human effectiveness, communication, relationship building, negotiation, conflict resolution, creativity, productivity and complex problem solving.

These services are not based on common learning methods where information is added to one’s body of knowledge to be practiced and used. They do not promote any philosophy, behavioral formula or political view.  They are not based on psychological or conflict resolution models.

Instead, they provide a powerful group inquiry based on unique distinctions that reveal how we came to be the way we are in life, how we act, how we see possibilities, how we relate, how the past impacts us in the present inhibiting our thinking and actions.

Those substantially grounded in ontology based programs come to realize the reality that they have infinitely more power over their circumstances than they thought. They acquire the ongoing ability to self-scrutinize their thinking and the thinking and actions of others with far greater objectivity and vision thus leading to opening new pathways.

Applied to national security or foreign relations, they can powerfully support breakthrough foreign policy formulations and stunning negotiating results. Through the dramatic expansion of conscious awareness, numerous life altering revelations come into focus never seen before setting the ground work for unprecedented results in all challenges. 

The development of ontology based services has been based on the principle that all human beings are born with limitless potential to produce extraordinary results in any aspect of living. And, early life experiences and our personal interpretations of these experiences either reinforce certain natural capabilities or repress them. Thus, the aim of ontological research has been to produce programs, services and methods to assist people in accessing repressed capabilities while expanding on those that were not.

To accomplish this, services are designed using group and individual inquiry techniques based on specific distinctions and guidelines to shed light on past events in such a way that the participant is able to clearly and expeditiously dismantle longstanding, unintentional self-programming and decisions that stifle the natural effectiveness, personal growth process.    

Having dismantled these obstacles to the natural effectiveness growth process, the client-participant becomes more and more aware of obstacles inhibiting their effectiveness and readily discover highly effective solutions.

They also come to discover new areas of interest and new forms of expertise never previously realized. Over time confidence, assertiveness, tenacity and communication capabilities take major leaps forward.

These consulting enterprises are breakthrough business and organization development companies providing highly trained consultants thoroughly schooled in the most advanced ontology based methodologies and programs. They are highly acclaimed in the training, development and human potential disciplines.

They work with Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations and business leaders. They custom create programs and execute consultations that are specific to each client group taking into account group cultures, personalities, religious leanings, perceived obstacles, breakthrough goals and other pertinent issues.

Their ability to support clients in achieving breakthrough results in any pursuit is unparalleled. In depth clarity on the consulting services requires a minimum of a one hour conference call or an onsite presentation including decision makers and the consultants.  There are no parallels to these specialized services.