At 08:42 06-10-1998 -0400, Charlie Saur wrote:
> I too have been fascinated by
>the notion (or false notion) of being able as a human to "withhold
>judgement". I find it difficult, and sometimes impossible, no matter how
>hard I try.
Me too, me too; maybe you have latin origins :-)
Sorry for the joke, Charlie, but I think that the "cultural" biases my be
important here. Maybe the reason why it is so difficult for me to "avoid
judgement" ( or to avoid "emotional reactions", by the way) comes from the
fact that I am from latin Europe... Each time I try to "avoid judgement" I
feel that I am not acting "truthfully", and that others will understand
that from my non verbal sighs.
But you have helped me a lot, when you said:
>So it may be a much healthier and efficient and
>learningful way to proceed with the notion of "dialogue" by allowing the
>internal event of judgement to "happen"; then stopping to examine the
>immediate behaviors that tend to happen contiguous to that event. Then
>turn possible immergences into emergent learning by avoiding the
>positioning behaviors that become obstacles to dialogue... Hmmm.
This sounds great to me !!! I think that I have been doing that tacitly,
without even knowing it. Thanks for putting it in an explicit way.
Regards
Artur
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