Fwd: Rethink the way you make choices 🔄

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From: ClearerThinking.org <info@clearerthinking.net>

Subject: Rethink the way you make choices 🔄

Date: September 8, 2023 at 5:08:48 PM EDT

Improve your decision-making and hone your reasoning with our free online programs. Not displaying right? View in your browser. A practical roadmap for rational decision-making Have you made a decision you regret? Or have you felt stuck making an important choice? We've all had those feelings. Our 7-step framework can help you to navigate even the trickiest decisions. Making a decision, especially an important one, shouldn't be done impulsively or without proper consideration. A structured approach can help you ensure you're not just reacting, but proactively shaping your future.  This email offers a brief outline of seven steps to refine your decision-making; whether you're someone who tends to be indecisive or someone seeking to enhance the quality of your choices, these actionable steps might help you feel more in control.  If you want to dive in deeper into these decision-making insights, consider trying the tools linked below or joining the Clearer Clearer Thinking 7-Day Make Better Decisions Challenge. 1️⃣ Avoid narrow framing When considering your options, there are often more than you realize. For example, when something you own breaks, you might think your only choices are to buy a new one or fix the old one, but you can also borrow, rent, upcycle, part-exchange and more. So, spend some time looking for options you might not have considered straight away. 2️⃣ Explore your intrinsic values Figure out your intrinsic values, and spend time reflecting on whether any of the options you're considering conforms better or worse to those values. 3️⃣ Consider the impact of biases There are common biases that might affect you when you're making decisions, such as: short-term bias, the sunk cost fallacy, and ignoring the probabilities of outcomes. 4️⃣ Reflect on your principles Build a list of your principles and reflect on which of them might be relevant to your decision. If you have any relevant principles, reflect on what they suggest you should do. 5️⃣ Learn from your past mistakes Think of a decision you've made in the past which you would consider a mistake. Try to identify the immediate cause and the root cause of the mistake. Reflect on those causes and then consider what you can do to stop yourself from repeating that mistake in the short term and the long term. Reflect on how you can avoid making that mistake with the decision you have been considering in the previous steps. 6️⃣ Set effective goals To increase the chances that your decisions take you where you want to go in life, try setting effective goals and reflecting on whether your decisions will take you closer to those goals. To set effective goals, do things such as: make your goal challenging (but not too challenging!); make it about achieving what you want (rather than avoiding what you don't); make it meaningful; and check your commitment level. 7️⃣ Make your decision! Once you go through these steps, you should feel more confident and certain of the decision you want to make.  However, if you feel that you need to put more thought into it, we strongly encourage you to try our 7-Day, Make Better Decisions Challenge. By signing up free, you'll get an email sent to your inbox each day, talking you through one of the steps above in more detail, always followed by a quick and thoughtful exercise, which you can do by yourself, at your own pace. Join the 7-Day Challenge 🔈 We've released a new podcast episode! 🔈 Using metacognitive therapy to break the habit of rumination (with Pia Callesen) - Spencer is joined by Dr. Pia Callesen, one of Denmark's most educated and experienced metacognitive psychologists, to discuss questions like: What is metacognitive therapy? How does MCT differ from CBT, DBT, and other mental health therapy paradigms? How do we know we're spending time worrying about the right things? How much time spent worrying is actually useful? How aware are we of our own tendencies to ruminate on certain negative thoughts? Does MCT avoid all content-based problem-solving? What is the state of the evidence for MCT? What did you think of this newsletter? Let us know by replying to this email!    Here at ClearerThinking.org, we offer many free mini-courses and tools to help you make better decisions, hone your reasoning, and create the life you want! Here's a sampling of our work: Value Of Your Time Calculator - Get a custom report that will help you make decisions based on the value of your time, like whether to take on extra part-time work or hire your own help. Achieve Your Goals - Create a personalized, step-by-step plan for your chosen goal and set a regular schedule of reminders so that you can keep track of the milestones that you achieve Life Changing Questions - Answer these open-ended questions (alone or with others) to learn new, important insights about yourself. Like this article? If so, we'd love for you to share it by clicking below. Share Tweet Forward You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive updates from ClearerThinking.org. 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Dear rafael,   We are excited to invite you to a special free Preview Event for our upcoming Collective Trauma Summit 2023!    In this live 90-minute panel discussion, we'll explore how innovative approaches in collective trauma work have the potential to shape the future and fuel transformative global healing. Thomas will also lead us in a guided collective meditation practice.   Save your spot and join us here!   [FREE Live Preview Event] Voices for Global Healing Innovative Approaches to Collective Trauma Work with Thomas Hübl and Your Summit Hosts Thursday, August 24, 2023 You'll also get access to the recording after the event. Register for FREE At the 2023 Collective Trauma Summit Preview Event, you'll discover: Emerging approaches and collective efforts focused on global healing and transformation Why there is a need for greater awareness for the interconnected nature of individual, ancestral, and collective trauma Key topics that address collective trauma and will be featured in the upcoming Summit – including environmental activism, trauma-informed journalism, psychology, spirituality, and more How you can help yourself and others in our collective healing journey And when you register for this Summit Preview Event, you'll automatically secure your spot for our upcoming 5th Annual Collective Trauma Summit,which airs from September 26 - October 4, 2023.   This year's 9-day Summit will feature 60+ curated online sessions with compelling conversations, panel discussions, poetry readings, music performances, movement sessions, and guided meditations.    By participating in the Summit, you become part of a transformative global movement, as we come together to envision a future filled with deep healing, connection, and harmony.   And as a special registration bonus, you'll receive instant access to a free excerpt from Thomas' new book Attuned which explores how attunement can reshape our relationships and help us develop a truer connection with ourselves, one another, nature, and the cosmos.   ⇨ FREE! Save your spot for the Preview Event and Collective Trauma Summit   We do hope you'll join us!   And if you can't be there for the Preview Event, please register anyway and watch your inbox – we'll send you a recording afterward.   We look forward to seeing you there!   Warmly, The Thomas Hübl Team

Fwd: Seeding and Harvesting

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Date: September 7, 2023 at 10:10:19 PM EDT



Interwoven Cycles of Life

Hello Dr What a season of transition, of incubation and opening, both! Find below some info on activities that might be of interest to you, and possibly for friends and colleagues: Ongoing: The year-long Conversation Series continues Programs: Levels of Scribing, and Visual Sensemaking Certification: u-lab, and Visual Presencing Pathway Generative Scribing: An upcoming audio book, intern admiration, and teaching Personally? Well, I moved... :) Tend your seeds; may they find ready soil. Kelvy Conversation Series A monthly opportunity to explore scribing applied to various topics. Tomorrow's sessions will be on Narratives, with special guests Christopher Fuller and Janis Pryor. Friday September 8 from 11am-12pm and 8-9pm EDT. From $20-40. I know this is late but you can still sign up! Programs Levels of Scribing Sept 20-Oct 11 | Online | More Info A 2-week largely self-directed program, ending with an integrative 2-hour live session, to learn and apply 4 Levels of Scribing across contexts. With Marie-Pascale Gafinen Visual Sensemaking Dec 6-7 | Online | More Info This program helps participants make sense of their current conditions, while unearthing future possibility through inner knowing. With Marie-Pascale Gafinen u-lab Celebrating it's 10th year, u-lab: Leading from the Emerging Future is going strong—updated to meet the times. This course is a core introduction to a method called Theory U, for leading change in business, government, and civil society contexts worldwide. Enroll - Learn More Visual Presencing Pathway u-school for Transformation, with Presencing Institute, has set in motion capacity development pathways for awareness-based systems change. One of those offers certification in Visual Presencing. Many of you are already well on the way, based on previous programs! Learn More - Questions? Generative Scribing Intern Admiration A big, big thank you to Iman Tuan, a bright light who spent a chunk of her summer helping me convert Generative Scribing into an audio book. There is more editing to go, but her dedication and kind direction advanced the project by leaps and bounds. Somehow Sharing Back I really, really want to open up scribing for today's youth. Emma Dulski continues to help me craft a curriculum for college-level institutions. If you know anyone who might be interested, please consider making a connection or let me know. Thank you 🙏🏼 Gardening and Art Well, I moved! Now based in the "Pioneer Valley" of Western MA—land of the Pocumtuc—my commitment to local living and work is holding steady. Less flying, more time in a community garden, while building a studio space near the woods for making art and tending the land. Rebalancing. Trying! It might be a more private time. We'll see what comes with the call of life...

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