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What kind of knowledge does psychotherapy give?

This Post is actually in response to a comment by Ron, but it seemed worth it’s own post.  Ron asked me to expand on something I wrote in my introductory Post for this unit: Now, you might reply by saying … Continue reading

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Unit 2: Introduction

The first thing to say is that this program is going to give me a strong sense of how quickly time passes. We were just warming up on Unit One, or so it seemed to me, and here it is … Continue reading

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Writing Posts instead of Comments

Now that I’ve started responding to what people are writing, I have a suggestion. If you are writing about your own experience with an exercise, do it in the form of a Post rather than a Comment. Also, give your Post a … Continue reading

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Levels of Expanding and Condensing

Since it is still a little early for people to have started making comments on this week’s unit, I thought I would add a few thoughts about the Ex. A. First, I have been experimenting with at least two different … Continue reading

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Jack Petranker

I’ve studied TSK since 1978, and have been teaching it since 1983. I also teach at the Nyingma Institute: Buddhist topics, meditation, Kum Nye, etc. And I am the founder of the Center for Creative Inquiry. In the last few … Continue reading

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Unit One: Introduction

First, let me encourage everyone to read the Orientation in When It Rains. I do strongly encourage you to keep a Journal. Your online comments and questions could be a supplement to the journal, or could grow out of the … Continue reading

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What counts as knowledge: airport security as a test case

The United States government has revised its rules for allowing liquids on board airplanes: You can now bring on board 3 oz. plastic bottles, as long as they fit in a quart-sized sealable plastic pouch. The emphasis on numbers and … Continue reading

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Welcome to the TSK Online Program

The Online Program officially starts October 2, and I will post a more substantive welcome then. For now, I just want to thank everyone who has enrolled. We are about to embark on a wonderful experiment that could have great … Continue reading

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Old Intro

It’s a new moon, and the Jewish New Year, so it seems an auspicious occasion to get this little vehicle up and running and out on the road. My idea in carving out a corner of the website for my … Continue reading

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Model-based thinking

As those of you who attended the 2006 pre-conference workshop that Allan Combs and I led may recall, I have some reservations about the field of Systems Thinking (Systems Science). They have to do with the implicit assumption that the … Continue reading

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