
Saved by David Horne and
The Art of Possibility
Saved by David Horne and
None of this is possible unless you have integrity and take action on the basis of what you know to be true. And that is hard precisely because of the Voice of Judgment, or the VOJ—that internal critic that promotes the fears—stopping you from seeing the possibilities in your life.
I always teach in the immediate. When I am working with someone, I don’t concern myself with where they are in the realization process or a specific trajectory. In this way, the teaching can be immediate and not “loaded” with preconceived ideas of where someone is coming from or where they are headed. Hence the exchange is intuitive, instant, and f
... See moreIn contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
... See moreBringing about the world we want to live in, the world we want to leave to our children is, substantially, the work of the imagination, or what educational reformer John Dewey describes as ‘the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’.18