Create a Meaningful Life

living in the question

The Mission

This web site is a further development of the Talking About web site that was around for nearly twenty years. Here you will find much of what was on that site and much more.

Ultimately, this is a site about becoming. It represents the development of my ideas since the turn of the century and my endeavour to create an holistic approach to examining the human condition and how we might become the human being we aspire to be. The aim is to provide a framework in which you can nurture and experience a more authentic and fulfilling life. Here you will find a cohesive set of concepts related to many aspects of the human experience, articles that take those concepts and apply them to some of life’s challenges and finally some ideas about how you could apply these ideas to your own life. I hope you find something here that sparks new ideas and takes you to a better life.

With warmest regards…. Chris Chittenden

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Linguistic Being Essay
This essay looks at some key concepts related to the human condition and our use of language. As far as we know, human language is unique. I am not saying other animals do not communicate via...
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Constructive Shift
Can You Make The Constructive Shift?
“Coaching is more concerned with blindness than with ignorance”  … Julio Olalla, Master Coach You may find this rather strange coming from a coach, but in the past I have struggled...
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Being-Authentic
Being Authentic
“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.” … Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004 The idea of living or acting authentically...
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The Foundational Premise
The ideas outlined in this work are based on a fundamental premise: Every human life is an entirely subjective, internal, and bounded experience. We define our life on a timeline of past, present...
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The Integral Model
Although all we know is our own inner experience of life, our concerns extend to others and the world at large. Our experiences and our ways of being are also shaped by our interactions with...
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Our Way of Being
If we are to effectively explore the human condition, we need a means of distinguishing that condition in a way that allows for deeper understanding whilst retaining a sense of the whole. In...
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What is Ontological Coaching?

The ideas on this site originated from the ontological coaching approach developed from the work of Fernando Flores, Rafael Echeverria and Alan Sieler.

I have built on their ideas and introduced many distinctions to make the ontological approach richer and more aligned.

Here you will find some of the history, traditional ideas and a summary of some of my extensions to the work.