Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:NLP Changework vs. Therapy and Coaching |
Posted by: | John Schertzer |
Date/Time: | 23/04/2003 17:30:32 |
I am a musician with lots of improv experience too, so I know what you mean. Yet those patterns we use are both explicitly and tacitly coded into our knowledge and behavior. This raises an interesting question about the tacit/explicit distinction, since much of it depends on "when" something is one or the other, while other patterns may never reach awareness. I'm not saying we can simply beautify our lives, but that we obviously have many more choices available which may not fit squarely into the therapeutic and coaching modes of interaction, though surely involving personal growth. I don't consider aesthetics a form of pure gratuity or entertainment, but as path of knowledge akin to philosphy and science, though obviously under-appreciated in this role. Perhaps a science of representations, which are the foundation of our understanding. At the same time, I don't want this to sound heavier than it has to be. I believe a lot of science and philosophy are as light and improvisational as jazz, though perhaps not the part that makes the final document. best, JS |