what if development isn't about getting better?
There was a point when I realised that for me the inner development journey is not about getting better or improving. About adding knowledge or skills. My inner journey is mostly about shedding, about letting go of the stories that have shaped the way I see the world. Peeling back the layers that have (necessarily) provided meaning, belonging and status. The onion layers analogy is not sufficient to describe what happens, because the profound significance of recognising the next story that has held me captive, can be both surprising and shocking. One of the stories for me to name and shed is that accumulating experiences matters for the inner journey. Instead of accumulating experiences, I’m learning that what matters is radical presencing. Presencing that is attentive, that slows down to notice things. In his piercingly insightful The Art of Travel , Alain de Botton suggest that one of the things about travel that is often swept under the carpet in our planning and anticipation;...
