The foundations of the ontological approach which led to this work were established in part through the work of a Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana. From the 1960s he explored the nature of living systems and through his inquiry he came to some remarkable conclusions, certainly for the time. Maturana identified that each human being is […]
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If we accept consciousness is a subjective experience arising from the dynamics of our body, how do things find their way into consciousness? We are constantly taking in information about the world from our senses, yet not all of this becomes conscious to us. You are likely to have had an experience, where music was
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Our simulations occur outside our awareness, yet some enter our consciousness and become our conscious experience. Any discussion about the human brain and our biological or physical being must involve the aspect of our being where we become conscious of something. Consciousness remains one area of the human condition that is still open to debate.
To appreciate the human condition and how we experience time, we must include another aspect of the human condition that allows us to engage with the past, memory. Memory is key to the human condition and plays a big part in how we create our predictions and simulations throughout life. We have two clear memory
A common-sense view of our experience would have us believe our brains react to what our senses tell us about the world. We perceive something, process what we perceive and then take some sort of action. That a stimulus leads to some brain activity which leads to our actions would, at first glance, seem to
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We do not step into the future in a vacuum. Through our life, we develop certain important concerns that we take into the future with us. These concerns form the basis of our interpretations about what is important and the meaning of situations ultimately leading to our actions. Our interpretations of the world include interpretations
For each of us, our Circle of Concern is generally quite extensive. There have been many attempts to provide a basis for those concerns and these have been used to help people understand what is important to them in life. This approach initially focuses on concerns about our personal experience and ways our being then
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It is easy and somewhat intuitive to believe when we observe the objective reality, we actually observe it as it is. Yet, this is not the case. We experience and engage with the universe through our way of being and that experience is all we know. As our way of being in any given moment
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 this approach, we consider the human condition as a coherence of three domains – physical being (body), emotional being (moods and emotions)
The dominant players in the world of ontological coaching and its underpinning philosophy are commercial entities namely Newfield Network, The Ontological Coaching Institute and Newfield Consulting. Their focus is largely on coach training and personal growth with some coaching and consulting activities. The development of the ontological theory has appeared to have been largely left
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