Inquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.
ALAN BRISKINInquiry allows us to discover what might be outside the cave instead of arguing about the shadows on the wall.
ALAN BRISKINOur language and symbols are always incomplete versions of a greater reality.
ALAN BRISKINThey are essentially commitments and attitudes that foster collaboration and positive collective action.
ALAN BRISKINThese stances are not abstract rules but tangible practices that must be renewed each time we are in groups.
ALAN BRISKINWe know that uncertainty creates anxiety and sometimes desperate attempts to find something to believe in.
ALAN BRISKINFor an understanding that our immediate actions have long-term consequences, and for an appreciation that there are different ways of knowing and understanding situations.
ALAN BRISKINWe seek guides and guideposts to ease the anxiety of the journey. But we also need to depend on our own insights and imagination to cultivate, from our own experience, a way to move forward.
ALAN BRISKINHere is why inquiry is such a powerful tool when compared to simple advocacy.
ALAN BRISKINUncertainty engenders real opportunity as well as misleading choices, great leaders as well as false messiahs, and new ways of understanding the world alongside hollow maxims and deceptive promises. Understandably
ALAN BRISKINDeveloping wisdom in community is to constantly learn and relearn that expedience in the short term.
ALAN BRISKINWisdom involves our accumulated knowledge about a subject but also a reverence for life.
ALAN BRISKINWe also show how group polarization sets the stage for risky and even dangerous decisions to be made.
ALAN BRISKINWisdom is not developable, as if it’s a matter of luck or personality or genetics. Well it’s just not the case.
ALAN BRISKINWisdom in groups is earned by gathering useful data, exploring diverse perspectives, respecting different viewpoints, and then shaped through critical reflection on behalf of tangible outcomes.
ALAN BRISKINWisdom in groups emerges as a product of commitments we make with ourselves and to each other.
ALAN BRISKINThe image is a great reminder how we create our world through interpretations made up of language and symbols.
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