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2 Write down as many words describing values or suggesting ways of behaving as you can

think of, starting with the letter A, then B, and so on. For example:

Autocratic

Bullying

Caring

With which of these do you most strongly identify?

3 What saying or line from a song most sums up your approach to life, your values? What

line most sums up the values of the place in which you work? Do they sit happily together?

A new sixth sense?

Polynesian thinking has at its heart the idea that to be healthy we

need to find and embrace the sacred in life. This involves injecting

joy into our lives, what Dr. Paul Pearsall calls “aloha” based on the

phonetic representation of the Polynesian word. It is connected

with the capacity to be content, patient, kind, and unassuming. It

unlocks our ability to be quieter in our lives. For me, this is a more

attractive sixth sense than the example of psychic awareness that is

sometimes cited as a candidate. We see, we hear, we touch, we

smell, we taste—and we are.

As Carl Rogers puts it in Freedom to Learn:

Significant learning combines the logical and the intuitive, the intellect
and the feelings, the concept and the experience, the idea and the meaning.

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