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Paula Leigh-Doyle's avatar

Thanks for the clarity you shared about this process of competence and consciousness. I am pondering another graphic of spirals between each stage and then returning through each stage in a new circumstance or different space, not sequentially ascending a ladder but iteratively moving between the less conscious and the more conscious competence. I am also savoring your call to compassion. Striving for self-compassion seems to open to compassion for "the other." I am gleaning this vision from the book, "The Wall Between" by Khouri & Wilkinson.

Laureen Golden, Host's avatar

Paula, I so appreciate you “pulling up a chair beside me” to look together at the layers of meaning embedded in the image's visual language. Through your support, I’m now better able to perceive how embedded the old paradigm's notion of linearity remains within me.

The image wants to be iterated but before I create the next iteration, I have a bubble: This exchange between us is exactly what the work is asking for ~ spaces where people and ideas can meet and be changed by contact. I'd love to invite others who are fascinated by this journey between paradigms (specifically “the process of competence and consciousness” you've foregrounded) to gather in a community call where we can share about our personal experience of the journey, so the next visual represents the field’s intelligence, not simply my own. I’m going to take a bit of time to sense the right shape and space for it, but wanted to name the intention here, where it started. I'll follow up once it's ready to take form.

And your insight, "self-compassion seems to open to compassion for 'the other'" resonates, and the book looks fascinating. Appreciate all you've shared here!