With finesse, it’s possible to combine the techniques of truth-seeking with friendliness and empathy so that the techniques work even when the person you’re talking to doesn’t know them. That’s a good way to demonstrate the effectiveness of truth-seeking techniques.
It’s easiest to use such finesse on the individual level, but if you can identify general concepts which help you understand and create emotional safety for larger groups of people, you can scale it up. Values conversations require at least one of the parties involved to have an understanding of value-space, so they can recognize and show respect for how other people prioritize different values even as they introduce alternative priority ordering. Building a vocabulary for understanding value-space to enable productive values conversations on the global scale is one of my latest projects.
With finesse, it’s possible to combine the techniques of truth-seeking with friendliness and empathy so that the techniques work even when the person you’re talking to doesn’t know them. That’s a good way to demonstrate the effectiveness of truth-seeking techniques.
It’s easiest to use such finesse on the individual level, but if you can identify general concepts which help you understand and create emotional safety for larger groups of people, you can scale it up. Values conversations require at least one of the parties involved to have an understanding of value-space, so they can recognize and show respect for how other people prioritize different values even as they introduce alternative priority ordering. Building a vocabulary for understanding value-space to enable productive values conversations on the global scale is one of my latest projects.