Embrace the Unknown through Generative Dialogue

Welcome uncertainty. Choose to learn more deeply by releasing what you think you know.

I admit; embracing the unknown can feel like a tall order – especially in this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. In what has become a very chaotic world, we prefer to control – or adopt the perception that we can control — our lives. Letting go of that “control” – releasing what we think we know comes with it the notion that we could lose something or that “bad” things will happen. And that can feel extremely frightening.

But let’s face it. Things can still fall apart even when we did “everything right”.

With Generative Dialogue comes an acceptance that we, as human beings, don’t have as much control over our lives as we believe we do. In fact, the only thing that we truly have control over is our very next thought.

Enter “The Present Moment.” Staying present in the moment can help us to embrace the unknown and welcome uncertainty. If we can release the idea that we have to “know it all” and simply be at peace with “I don’t know”, it allows us to accept the likelihood that the future is full of possibility, providing unlimited opportunity. Choosing to live in the “I don’t know” opens us up to a deeper, more profound learning experience to new ideas that could be more meaningful, more fulfilling and more gratifying than what we thought we knew.

Come to the edge, he said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge, he said.
They came.
He pushed them and they flew. ∞ Guillaume Apollinaire

The choice to make is whether you are pushed by pain or pulled by possibility. Generative Dialogue offers the latter. By being in the present moment — through not knowing – and by way of authentic curiosity – Dialogue offers an opportunity to discover – inhaling the ideas of others, later exhaling an expression of your new ideas…and with with the possibility to fly, the caged eagle soars!