The Concept Of Radical Honesty - [WAS: Peaceful Communication]

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What is Radical Honesty?

 

Radical Honesty is a kind of communication that is direct, complete,

open and expressive. Radical Honesty means you tell the people in

your life what you've done or plan to do, what you think, and what

you feel. It's the kind of authentic sharing that creates the

possibility of love and intimacy.

 

The practice of Radical Honesty is based on the work and writings of

Dr. Brad Blanton, a psychologist who found that the best way to

reduce stress, make life work, and heal the past was to tell the

truth.

 

People who practice Radical Honesty have healthy, free, powerful and

joyful lives. Lying and protecting your image takes a heavy toll on

your health and relationships. Telling the truth is less destructive

than lying.

 

From Wikipedia:

 

Radical Honesty is the name of a self improvement program developed

by Brad Blanton PhD that challenges people to give up their addiction

to lying. The method focuses the practitioner on being present with

what is happening within themselves and separating their objective

observation from their subjective judgment and having a higher level

of consciousness as to which is which.

 

The Radical Honesty technique includes having practitioners state

their feelings directly and in ways typically considered impolitic.

For example, " I resent you for X " where X is a statement of objective

observation about the person who the comment is being directed

towards.

 

The Center for Radical Honesty conducts 8 day workshops which train

people in the collection of techniques which shift them out of

typically socially acceptable patterns of " white lying " and into a

more truthful relationship with themselves and others. The material

in the Radical Honesty workshop is drawn from an eclectic collection

of sources including Sufism, clinical psychology, Gestalt therapy and

the comic spiritual belief (developed by Blanton) called

Futilitarianism. Futilitarianism claims it is futile to have any

belief whatsoever. The significant majority of participants in the

Radical Honesty workshops report dramatic changes in their lives

after taking the course, though they are not always comfortable and

positive.

 

These workshops are usually held in Stanely, Virginia at the Center's

offices, and Blanton travels widely and occasionally gives workshops

in other locations.

 

Blanton has written a series of books to help guide readers in the

Radical Honesty technique.

 

Esquire ran an article on Radical Honesty in its July 2007 issue

titled " I think You're Fat " .

 

http://www.radicalhonesty.com/

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I think lack of Radical Honesty is a HUGE reason for the decline of

our civilization and eventually the world.

Erica

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On Monday 22 October 2007, Erica wrote:

> Futilitarianism claims it is futile to have any

> belief whatsoever.

 

Wonderful!

 

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the kneeling fool

[Guest guest]

On Monday 22 October 2007, Erica wrote:

> What is Radical Honesty?

 

sounds great and would go well with Byron Katie's " The

Work " .

 

her two worksheets can be downloaded at the bottom of the

page in the left column are links;

 

http://www.thework.com/resources.asp

 

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the kneeling fool