BLOG on Empathic Action, Education, and Neuroscience: AdoptAdapt

WORKSHOPS in Communities, Organizations, and Schools: Social Learning Lab

TOOLS for Mindfulness (to do right now if you want): Wholeflow Yoga

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.Adopting Different Viewpoints to Strengthen Adaptive Intelligence.

With….Empathic Action Acting

“To flourish, living systems must be more than just organized. They must be dynamic. Systems must constantly move and change if they are to carry out their
functions and maintain their integrity and their interrelations with other functioning systems. A system that
becomes static—unable to change and adapt to varying
conditions—will quickly perish. Social, psychological,
or biological systems must be able to stretch the limits
of their current patterns of organization, and even to actively guide and reorganize the relations that constitute
their structure.”

How? One way is through super-mindfulness, self-flooding, self-priming techniques, derived from acting’s techniques and suggestive sensory inspirations.

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”-William James

All of the ways we are -being, thinking, feeling, doing, speaking- are related to and affect the others. By purposefully experiencing new ways of being, thinking, feeling, doing, and speaking we can shifts the neuronal firings of the brain, creating new patterns of neuronal activity, biochemicals and hormones.

“Minds are not merely brains that happen to be in bodies. People’s minds are parts of their bodies, and their mind-bodies act, think, and feel in a world of objects and other people.”-Kurt Fischer

How Acting Reveals Life:
The ability to temporarily suspend the self in order to experience and then include another world view enables more intelligent choice making in the development of selves, and social systems.
Social structures and constructs are extensions of human internal structures and constructs. When one experiences varied internal structures in the first person then open, empathic conversation becomes possible and non-fear based actions and choices present themselves for consideration. By experiencing the motivating factors of different individuals we can understand the otherwise impenetrable “why” of differences in belief and behavior.
If we can impartially empathize with divergent internal constructs (perspectives) then maybe we can find the most useful aspects in our varried social constructs and synthesize them to create a better society, develop more effective rehabilitation methods, organization structures, and cross-cultural relations. We can experience another person’s point of view and from that vantage point we can better understand where we overlap, where we differ and why. We can then make take the most helpful aspects of all points of view, merging them into a new course of intelligent action. Revealing people and society and what each can be.

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet in spite of its ubiquity there is no word for the opposite of fragile, Let us call it antifragile. The property is behind everything that has changed with time:…technological innovation, cultural and economic success, corporate survival, good recipes. ” – Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb