Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration: The Awakening of Self-Awareness
The third in a series of Sunday posts about Kazimierz Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. This week’s topic: awakening to self-awareness.
personal growth
Attitudes and Qualities of Personality
Dabrowskian development is aspirational. We don’t simply wait for changes to happen; we participate in them and strive for something bigger and better, even to the point of overcoming biological and societal forces.
Sidetracked by Dabrowski
Dabrowskian development is one of learning not to be controlled by social and biological forces. A strong developmental instinct helps us instead to choose a life that is more in keeping with the person we want to be, rather than who we are or who we were, especially when who we should be is in conflict with more primitive instincts.
From Nice Girl to Kind Woman
Kristen Lamb’s blog post on Good Girls and Bad Girls is a must-read, especially for women, and especially for women like me whose high school years were filled with “You’re a nice girl! Stay just the way you are.” Nice is different from kind.
Total Kindness and Respect
“Treat others like they are geniuses, like they are important, and guess what—they will feel that way.”