Training relational awareness as a life skill

​Continually reshape the relational connections between functional parts to sustain whole-system resilience.​​

 

Return to your teams relaxed, in alert connection, able to enjoy a dance of anticipation, confident you can handle whatever comes next, and play a role in whole-system resilience.

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Welcome. I hope you’re well. My name is Jon Thorne, and early in my career, I focused on separating the functional from the relational aspects of face-to-face interaction. The functional moved online. Later, I focused on bringing the relational back into the functional.  My book explains that we can’t find health and well-being through function alone. Meaningful connection comes from seeing how functional parts relate as a whole.

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When people realise that focusing too heavily on how individual parts function can prevent them from experiencing how those parts relate to the whole, they tend to respond in several ways. They may embrace the relational experience of the whole, relate to one functional part at a time, or, driven by a need for certainty, try to eliminate the relational interplay between functional parts. LifeSkills21.club is for those who want to embrace the relational experience of the whole.