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FOURPREPARE: FOSTER AN ATTITUDE FOR ENGAGING

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

—Mary Catherine Bateson, Willing to Learn

Emergence is rife with uncertainty. The more skilled we are in facing the unknown, the better able we are to engage emergence and to bring others with us.

How do we equip ourselves to engage disturbance?

Three practices—embracing mystery, choosing possibility, and following life energy—are particularly useful to cultivate. This chapter explores them.

Embrace Mystery: Seek the Gifts Hidden in What We Don’t Know

What does it take to be receptive to the unknown?

Perhaps knowing that turmoil is a gateway ...

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