Guide to Getting Real
If you want to understand more about how we practice awareness as a community, we recommend reading the book: Getting Real by Susan Campbell to learn more. Below each of the truths listed below, we have added relevant resource links from Strikingly by Clinton Callahan.
"Susan Campbell provides simple yet practical awareness practices — culled from her 35-year career as a relationship coach and corporate consultant — that require individuals to “let go” of the need to be right, safe, and certain. Such questions as “In what areas of my life do I feel the need to lie, sugarcoat, or pretend?” help guide the reader toward self-realization. The truth skills include:"
1. How to Stop Being Right and Start Being Real
2. Experiencing What Is: To Get Where You Need to Go, Be Where You Are
3. Being Transparent: Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Hide
4. Noticing Your Intent: Is Your Intent to Relate or to Control?
5. Welcoming Feedback: It’s How We Learn
6. Asserting What You Want and Don’t Want: Supporting Your Feelings with Action
7. Taking Back Projections: Discovering Your Other Side
8. Revising an Earlier Statement: It’s Okay to Go Out and Come In Again
9. Holding Differences: Seeing Other Viewpoints Without Losing Your Own
10. Sharing Mixed Emotions: You’re Not Crazy, You’re Complex
11. Embracing the Silence of Not Knowing: Entering the Fertile Void
12. Serenity, Presence, and Compassion
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