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The Venus of Willendorf
How can we be both tender and at the same time so aggressive in our nature. Can we be both modern and human? We are a paradox...

Robert Fertman
Apr 24, 20152 min read


Identity as Self-Generation: An Autopoietic Process of Reciprocal Maintenance
Central to our all of assessments is the implied question; “Do we like the life we are living.”

Robert Fertman
Apr 19, 20155 min read


Alba Emoting and Emotional Intelligence
As we are socialized in our families of origin, many people lose this natural-born ability to express what they feel without emotional armor

Robert Fertman
Apr 14, 20152 min read


Authentic Inquiry and Radical Open Listening as a Practice for Transforming Identity
We do not readily give our identity up. Even if we wanted to, we actually have no clue how to give it up. Thus identity is persistent.

Robert Fertman
Dec 13, 20142 min read


Divided Attention Is An Authentic Practice of Radical Open Listening
What is "the doing" of listening? An action occurs in which the speaking of a speaker is really understood and not just perceived

Robert Fertman
Nov 14, 20143 min read


Can We Bring Nothing to What We Listen To?
Any preconception that I have about what a speaker is saying is an obstruction to actual listening.

Robert Fertman
Nov 7, 20142 min read


Turtles All The Way Down
Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a kingdom and who dreamed of knowing everything.

Robert Fertman
Oct 31, 20143 min read


What Are The Limits Of Possibility
In reality, our ability to see from another point of view than we habitually take opens access to a new realm of possibilities.

Robert Fertman
Oct 2, 20141 min read


Living as a Created Self Rather then as a Personal Identity
Becoming a created self offers a new reality for living life. Observing differently, new assessment becomes possible.

Robert Fertman
Sep 8, 20141 min read


The Situation Now: A Changing Environment
Like most people, you want certainty, predictability, and ease in the situations of life. Instead, you find the opposite.

Robert Fertman
Sep 4, 20141 min read


What is Ontological Coaching?
It is about self-authorship; creating and fulfilling a future through speech and action..self-awareness in body, emotion, & language...

Robert Fertman
Sep 2, 20142 min read


Now That's The Way To Live!
RE-Creation. What you want is to be Re-Created. To be with someone who Re-Creates you!!! To live with Fun and play with people in a "DOING"

Robert Fertman
Aug 24, 20141 min read


An Attitude of Skepticism Is Needed To Think For Yourself
One very good way to know reality is to perturbate the world...Inquiry through perturbation will lead to discovery.

Robert Fertman
Mar 22, 20142 min read


Must the Unknown Be Present for a Conversation To Be an Inquiry?
An inquiry is not a conversation about the known. Those kinds of conversations might be useful, but they can only repeat known discourses.

Robert Fertman
Mar 20, 20142 min read


What is Authentic Inquiry?
It seems that to be authentic, in an inquiry, one must be “all in.” The state of authentic inquiry requires the full self-deployment of ...

Robert Fertman
Mar 19, 20142 min read
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