Author Archives: John Shotter

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About John Shotter

Retired Professor of Communication (ex psychologist) trying to 'cure' myself of being an academic

Gergen, confluence, and his turbulent, relational ontology: the constitution of our forms of life within ceaseless, unrepeatable, intermingling movements

“Let us envision, then, a process of relational flow in which there is both continuous movement toward constraint, on the one hand, and an openness to the evolution of meaning on the other” (Gergen, 2009, p.46). “What we traditionally view … Continue reading

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More than Cool Reason: ‘withness-thinking’ or ‘systemic thinking’ and ‘thing about systems’

Abstract: Many of our difficulties in our practical lives are not of the form of “problems” that we can solve by reasoning; nor are they are “empirical problems” that we can solve by discovering something currently unknown to us by … Continue reading

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