Sublime

No cabe duda, por tanto, de que hoy día cada uno se encuentra más directamente enfrentado a la necesidad imperiosa de construirse que a la de deconstruirse, al menos aparentemente. Digamos que la deconstrucción ya se da por supuesta y que ahora el verdadero reto es qué hacer en adelante, lo cual tiene su lado apasionante, pero también puede ser

Action research may be defined as an emergent inquiry process in which applied behavioural science knowledge is integrated with existing organizational knowledge and applied to solve real organizational problems. It is simultaneously concerned with bringing about change in organizations, in developing self-help competencies in organizational

In the arena of self-knowledge, psychotherapy may be the single most useful intervention of the last 200 years. It is a tool and, like all tools, it finds its purpose in helping us to overcome an inborn weakness and to extend our capacities beyond those originally gifted to us by nature.

This process raises the question: Who are you without all of your stories and defenses?

This is sacrifice and compromise personified: One can always create something trivially original on the grounds of trivial individualism. The challenge is to create something meaningful to others and true to oneself that manages to say something new, or at least newly, to infuse just enough individual creative spark as to manipulate the common pool

Maturation in the psychological realm involves the differentiation of the elements of consciousness—thoughts, feelings, impulses, values, opinions, preferences, interests, intentions, aspirations. Differentiation needs to happen before these elements of consciousness can be mixed to produce tempered experience and expression.

The “death” component of Square One, that initial period when you first come to terms with the fact that your old identity is lost, can only be managed by grieving. Psychologists sometimes call it “grief work.” I like this phrasing, because it points out that experiencing the pain of loss is a concrete, productive behavior, not a waste of time.

In this place of transition - a place that feels disorienting, confusing, messy - we need to be learning from each other, plural in the possibilities we generate, and willing to let go of those mental frameworks that are no longer serving us well.