The Human Approach

         "The human soul thrives on a challenge or a problem and, once it is stretched by struggling with any sort of adversity, it can never stretch back to its original dimensions. And so it grown bigger." Eliminate the adversity, eliminate the risk, and while in the name of comfort, you may save the body, you will lose the soul.  -The Wilderness Within by Daniel L. Dustin Author speaks on bad airline food, “It gave me the feeling that I had bitten into the modern world and discovered what it is really made of… everything slick, and streamlined, everything made out of something else.”

Being genuine... this word carries a lot of weight. Before I get into my own personal experience with genuineness and its implications in ones daily "going-ons", I want to preface with a few definitions I've stumbled across that I feel embody the concept. The first comes from psychologist Carl Rogers in his book titled, A Way of Being, in which he states,  " Congruence, or genuineness, involves letting the other person know "who you are" emotionally. It may involve confrontation and the straightforward expression of personally owned feelings - both negative and positive. With that in mind, I would like to add (or more so reiterate) to his wording of "'who you are' emotionally". To me, this gives the connotation of telling others "how you feel" and "getting things off your chest". And yes, while being genuine does involve those things, chances are if you have to sit down with someone to do this, it is due to a la

The Recreation Field is embodied by: Providing social justice through inclusion for ALL people, regardless of race, sexual orientation, ability, socioeconomic status, or gender; so that each person, as Aristotle states, may have the opportunity to obtain the “good life”. Inclusion defined, as used in context above: “The National Center on Educational Restructuring and Inclusion developed the following working definition of inclusive education: “Providing to all students, including those with significant disabilities, equitable opportunities to receive effective educational services, with the needed supplementary aids and support services, in age appropriate classrooms in their neighborhood schools, in order to prepare students for productive lives as full members of society.” [1] Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, log

I have been studying a behavioral inventory system created by Robert Bolton that focuses on four main behavioral styles. Bolton's book, "People Styles at Work: And Beyond", is a simple tool that can be used simply and easily to identify ones traits. However, once one delves deeper into the behavioral system, it can provide a more complex understanding of ones deeper tendencies. To summarize how the system works I have provided a graph:  To get started, you fill out a simple questionnaire that gathers "tally" marks, afterwards the tally's are added down the columns to get four totals, these totals will act as coordinates for Bolton's "Assertiveness/Responsiveness" chart. Once "moving yourself" according to the coordinates, you will be placed into one of four categories, Analytical, Driver, Amiable, or Expressive. Once you have placed yourself in a quadrant, Bolton's book goes into detail describing traits, tendencies, and common