Toward a World that Works for Everyone
I’d like to demonstrate the process of resolving cognitive dissonance and creating paradigmatic breakthrough. Why do I do that? Because things will get busier in the future and we may need to have new ways of “working the changes,” so to speak. So it’s useful to walk through an instance of this process. This will […]
Outlook just asked me if I wanted to add myself as a contact. Excuse me? Well, wait a minute. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea. The awareness path is about making contact with ourselves – with our Self. Let’s look at some features of it. I’m the only contact I have, the only mechanism […]
(Continued from Part 3.) Going First There’s another matter that I know I can no longer dodge – or probably any of us for that matter. How many times have we asked ourselves why the other person doesn’t go first in risking, taking a new path, or stepping aside? Why must we go first? In […]
(Continued from Part 2.) There are three steps I like to take with my own process of communication to skirt the pitfalls of a force-based communicational style. I own my communication. I state the status of my knowledge. I identify the principle upon which I base the communication. Owning My Communication
(Continued from Part 1.) Lately, I seem to have been entering into more and more conversations and communications that have serious consequences or can lead to serious outcomes. And because of this, I seem to be wanting to focus more attention on ways of communicating. Many of us, I think, base our communicational style, especially […]
I’ve always regarded myself as my own laboratory, subject, experiment, and appraiser. I watch how I do things and then test out what happens and look for improvements. Doing things this way, for me, is part and parcel of the awareness path and of consciousness-raising. That being said, I’ve lived most of my life as […]
