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How does Navigating Reality support a Preventative Approach to Well-Being?

Making sense of our experiences and increasing our resilience is a learned skill. The more skillful we become, the greater our scope of understanding and the more resiliently creative we can be. We spend a lot of time trying to make sense of the experiences we have. Sometimes, we can easily interpret situations while other times, this journey requires us to design ourselves a story, then see if we are realistically accurate.

This technique is what I call “navigating reality.” By improving our ability to conceptualize and navigate through reality in meaningfully accurate ways, we increase our own sense of well-being, too.

How does this work?

By understanding tendencies, patterns and anomalies, we work towards integrating what we understand and identify the missing pieces, so what was a puzzle can make sense. This facilitates insightful learning and enhances confidence as we track the outcomes of decisions and subsequent activity.

Sometimes, this can be done through independent study (more will become available in the Learning Tools section), or a customized approach by working directly with me. Oftentimes, two to three consultations can see you on your way. Other times, more consistent interaction and activity over time can prove more useful, for studied and sustained enhancement.

How can this help me or us?

Whether interacting with family or friends, colleagues at work or in behalf of supporting community, we both influence and are influenced by our surrounding environments. Familiar patterns of experience often occur across and within these different settings. For this reason, sharing your observations and thoughts can help build a more useful conceptual perspective.

Working together we employ reflective thinking, whereby perspectives, ideas and future actions become more integrated, thoughtful and intentional. Together, we find more meaningful and constructive ways to approach situations by identifying important values and meaningful insights. Through the process of reality-checking and follow-up reconstructions, our adaptive navigational abilities become an authentically acquired skill set to employ across multiple endeavors.

Everything is fine, how could I or we benefit?

This is perfect timing! Change comes to all of us and what an ideal moment to engage in more learning and skill building, when life is meaningfully stable!

At this time, situations and events can be more easily viewed from a learning perspective, and in behalf of improving our ability to facilitate the best in others, as well as ourselves. Rather than wait until the stress of life becomes too intense, or when faced with a crisis, investing now (in yourself or as a group) can become a preventative approach to meaningful living. When our lives are stable, we are more able to engage the smaller details with clarity and objective openness.

By investing in improvements now, situations can be approached with more thoughtful confidence than is often possible when unexpected stress arises, as happens with all of us at different times, throughout our life cycle.