Valuing Perspectives

We can only see the world through our own lens.

Your lens on the world is made up of your values, how you’ve been socialized and educated, your experiences, your culture and heritage, and even your communication style. All of which is informed by your biases.

Here’s the really interesting piece.

Most of us walk through life assuming that everyone sees the world through the same lens we do, like looking through the same pair of binoculars.

It is really more like looking through a kaleidoscope.

What you see in the kaleidoscope depends solely on what you focus on and how you turn the wheel to shape and reshape the fractals of color. We are each seeing the world through our own kaleidoscope and the result is thousands and thousands of different colors and patterns.

In other words, no two of us have the same view.

With every situation encountered, the human tendency is to assume that we share the same view. However the person or the situation is showing up just as they are, not as you are. And this can cause conflict.

It helps to invite these different perspectives.

For my newest book about my Navigating Challenging Dialogue program, I’m working with an editor.She provides a totally different perspective from mine. She sees what I can’t. She questions what I assume to be true. And believe me, that is uncomfortable sometimes.

I’d also like your perspective.

What do you think would be valuable for me to include? What do you love most about NCD? What might I not be seeing? What is in your kaleidoscope that I am missing or need to know?

Send me your thoughts, your big questions, your small concerns.

Help me to make this book truly be in service of the good of the whole. An opportunity to make clean and clear communication accessible and available to all.

You can share your thoughts by email. Thanks!