Finding Peace Through Managing Risk – Exclusive Interview With Dr. Elaine Christine
Updated: Oct 3, 2024
Donna Anselmo, host of Bold Talk Business Radio on AM 1060 WMEL welcomes Dr. Elaine Christine, author of Managing Risk: Methods for Software Systems Development. They discuss risk, opportunity, and finding the possibility for peace in their professional and personal life.
Dr. Elaine Christine, Mindfulness Expert, Best Selling Author, and International Keynote Speaker
Peace vision story
My name is Donna Anselmo, and you’re listening to Bold Talk Business Radio on AM 1060 WMEL. It’s sure to be an uplifting show as we have Dr. Elaine Christine, author of The Peace Prophecy, with us today. Elaine, tell us about your vision for peace and how this all started.
Thank you, Donna. I was walking the beach on August 5, 2000, in Indialantic, Florida. Suddenly, I saw the peace symbol glowing neon violet projected from my third eye and burst into tears. I went home and wrote the first chapter of The Peace Prophecy trilogy.
What is the six-discipline model?
Donna: You started as a computer scientist and developed a model for defense systems working for Harris Corporation and the Pentagon. Tell us how your risk management model informed your passion for the Peace Process and how the Peace Process flowed out of your work in technology. That’s a crazy story!
Elaine: When I was in London teaching my 3-day Managing Risk seminar, a student asked, ‘How does risk fit in the big picture?’ I turned to the board to draw something but drew a blank. Back in the hotel, my husband, Tom Gorsuch, inquired, ‘How did it go today, honey?’ I replied, ‘Not very well. The students asked me a question I couldn’t answer.’ Tom said, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll work on it when we get home.’
My husband and I developed the Six-Discipline Model together. After I drew the model correctly, my physical body was energized for three days. Finally, I had the thought, ‘Please let me sleep.’ That diagram is in my textbook, Managing Risk. Three years later, I saw the diagram in a book titled Pyramid Power. I had drawn a three-dimensional pyramid in two dimensions.
That process can produce products, and we were using it for large-scale software development. This model of mind is a simple model that runs any thought. I wondered what makes the model holy, and then I went to a spiritual conference in Miami. Everyone wanted world peace, but nobody had a plan. I decided to run the thought of world peace on the Six-Discipline Model. And it became known as the Peace Process.
The 6-step peace process
Donna: So, walk us through the six steps of the model for inner peace.
1. Discover the problem
Elaine: What you discover is the field of all possibilities. A field of pure potential has risks and opportunities. When you have a problem, you need to expand your mind.
Donna: When I walked through the Peace Process with you, the first question was, ‘What’s taking your peace?’ And that’s an interesting question. What is keeping you from being all that pure potential?
Elaine: You’re wrestling with that because there’s uncertainty in the future. You need faith and trust in God to walk through the unknown. You’ve got some decisions to make. You assess the upside and the downside and know more about your opportunity when you understand the risk.
2. Envision the solution
Elaine: The envisioning aspect is a turnaround from what you don’t want to what you do want. You walk 180 degrees in the other direction to find out what you want. What you do want is the opposite of what you don’t.
Donna: Well, that’s easy to figure out, I think. Of course, there are always possibilities, and sometimes it’s hard to narrow them down.
3. Plan for peace
Elaine: In the Peace Process, the plan is always for peace. How can we take one action step, applying time, talent, and treasure? What’s one thing that we’re going to move toward? We’re not just dreamers, and we need to plan.
Donna: Right. We discover the problem we want to resolve and envision the solution that makes us feel good and gives us peace. Then, we plan how we’re going to make that happen.
4. Work in harmony
Elaine: Work is a meditation to send love to what’s taking your peace. Send love to the vision and visualize yourself taking one action step. The Peace Process dissolves the problem because problems wait for your positive energy. They don’t go away with criticism, condemnation, blame, shame, or guilt. The work is sitting in meditation, taking a deep breath, and flowing love to what you don’t want, to what you do want, to the plan. And that raises your vibration.
Donna: I just had a thought. We talk about people feeling stuck. What’s happening when they’re stuck is that energy isn’t flowing. They’re looking backward and not putting positive energy into changing their mindset about the problem.
Elaine: You elevate your energy to attract your next best move.
5. Measure with honesty
Elaine: After your meditation, you rate yourself on the quality of love you’ve sent. You measure on a scale of zero to ten, zero being no love at all and ten being the most love in your heart.
Donna: What happens if you give yourself a low rating? You don’t feel like you’ve given enough love. Do you have to work back into the process?
Elaine: Yes. I recommend giving feedback to change the plan because maybe your plan is too aggressive. I work with people whose teenage son died after being hit by a drunk driver. You may need to build that forgiveness muscle over time.
6. Value the progress
Elaine: Value the progress invites people to share about a positive experience. They’ll say, ‘Well, it brought me clarity. I was able to talk it out.’ They’re creating a long-term memory of appreciation that uplifts their spirit.
Donna: One of the things I love that you’re doing, Elaine, is working with a heartfelt mission for peace, using the Internet as a strategy for raising awareness and bringing more people to the Peace Process. You’ve been listening to Donna Anselmo Bold Talk Business Radio on AM 1060 WMEL. We will be back after the news break. Stay tuned. We’ll be back!
Exclusive interview resources
Tune in to Bold Talk Business Radio as host Donna Anselmo interviews Dr. Elaine Christine (19:15 minutes). Read Donna’s article, Dr. Elaine Christine Inspires Peace through Science in the Mark of Excellence newsletter. Elaine’s textbook on Amazon, Managing Risk, is a comprehensive guide for busy professionals delivering products on time and within budget.
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Elaine Marie Christine, Mindfulness Expert, Best Selling Author, & Keynote Speaker
Elaine Marie Christine is a Mindfulness Expert, number 1 Best Selling author, and International Keynote Speaker. She earned an MBA, Master in CS (1983), and PhD in Computer Science with a minor in Artificial Intelligence from the Florida Institute of Technology (1995). Her landmark text, Managing Risk, was published by Addison Wesley Longman (1998). She is the tech-savvy Sole Proprietor and Owner at Aquaterra, publishing digital content (since 2005). Dr. Elaine Christine was inducted into Who’s Who in America (2021).
