Generative Communication unlocks being human to generate mutual commitments and shared meaning.
Cultivating a generative mindset transforms our relationship to language from being describers of some objective-knowable world to being designers and authors of reality.
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With awareness, we weave thought and meaning to bridge the mind and existence.
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With practice, we discern our reactivity and develop the capacity for reflectivity.
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With language, we wield the power of interpretation to generate meaning-making.
generative communications MODEL
These FIVE PATHWAYS support cultivating generative conversations.
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Developing spaciousness for relaxed awareness to navigate the tension between confusion and clarity.
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Discern distractions that enable habitual reflexivity and constrain deeper understanding.
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Appreciate unlearning/letting go dynamic to develop grounding.
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Embrace your intentions, speaking, and listening; claim your past, present, and possibility that shapes thoughts, feelings, responses, and results.
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Recognize and dissolve defensive, avoidance, and survival strategies that constrain action.
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Strengthen integrity to produce authentic agreements.
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Probe evidence, conditions, concerns, and backgrounds, that shape an interdependent view of situations and circumstances.
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Recognize limitations and fragmentation that constrain change/flow.
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Develop critical and creative thinking to realize greater integration and freedom.
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Practice ontological humility to question views and surface assumptions that develop insight and new perspectives.
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Discern, expectations, attachments, deeply held positions, and fixed beliefs that constrain listening.
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Develop space for receptivity to realize the undivided flow of life.
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Cultivate openness to be with the unknown and presence possibility.
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Discern resistance and blind spots that constrain seeing possibility.
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Listen from potential to engage in co-creation.
Generativity means giving birth to something, and that something emerges from this conversation.
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You feel connected, more understood, seen, heard, and experienced. You’ve been recreated beyond any label or concept – acknowledged as a legitimate being. That is generative communication.
Language becomes generative when:
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Communication opens minds to bring something new into existence or prompts action that changes a situation.
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We accept responsibility for our intentions, speaking and listening, and claim our past, present, and possibility to shape our thoughts, feelings, responses, and results.