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This book is designed to be a gentle glide through some important things that need to b e addressed, yet also a gentle nudge for relief from the mind clutter of our modern times! A journey that challenges us as part of a human “family,” to dig deep to the root of what is still missing in our modern human-centric thinking patterns. The book dives into the story of how the human stories passed down over the centuries have become so embedded within us, we have difficulty disrupting the habitual loop long enough to discern which are still serving us and which are harming us. Many of the stories now hinder our ability to recover our natural collaborative, adaptive, conceptual, and strategic thinking, and skills. The exact skill sets and competencies that experts agree, is what our new conceptual economy and climate reality needs if we are going to adapt and survive the next waves of inevitable change. The book effectively balances the author’s own life story of the process, with decades of her own research combined with recent adaptive strategies from her leadership journey at the Evan’s School.

Natural Self Discovery takes a Pause, Reflect, and Respond approach, beginning with a thorough situational assessment and analysis of our place in the natural world, and how we have limited ourselves and our ability to relate to any other thinking systems. The book points to the ways we have become trapped in an unhealthy habitual cycle of thinking that keeps us separate from nature and each other. Our modern minds now exist in a continuous loop that enables us to stay in a fearful avoidance of difficult conversations, ability to embrace uncertainty to create paths toward the changes necessary to move forward in sensible solutions. By valuing the time immersed in the creative discovery process of connecting the dots through a more expansive lens that is aligned with our life source, we have a chance for increased understanding of how it’s all interrelated and feel more confident to ideate more aligned and strategic responses. It’s a thinking process which Pam considers be our next frontier of maturity as a species as mature “whole humans” reunited with our life source, our natural creativity and sensory intelligence, and each other.

An excerpt from the book back cover:

“To be “mature,” according to most online dictionaries, and majority of experts in multiple fields, is to become more developed mentally and emotionally, and to respond to stimuli and events in a responsible way. Would Earth, or any of our fellow inhabitants of the natural world say that the human species currently fits this definition?

The facts, statistics, and endless research that are instantly right at our fingertips, especially in how we treat ourselves and others, reveals the answer is a resounding “no.” Dare we say that modern humanity’s relationship with our life source has arrived at a severe level of insanity? Dare we admit that humanity’s relationship with the natural world mirrors the growing trend of research on the damage caused by shaming through a story of “disorders,” the scarcity story of a linear economic mindset, and of our collective addiction to convenience? Dare we explore the pile of research that proves our modern thinking has led to what Richard Louv titled nature deficit disorder? Dare we admit that we have fearfully ignored the research that shows we must address our creative deficit disorder?

How about we disrupt our habitual limited thinking patterns and align them with our life source? How about we face the fear of ambiguity, which our current dominant limited human-centric thinking has created? Pam takes us on a journey down the rabbit hole of our modern human thinking and introduces creative trail mapping techniques that can help us embrace our fear of uncertainty just long enough to disrupt the old stories and become courageously curious. A path that helps us give ourselves permission to lean into investigative trails of discovery of our innate creative and sensory intelligences to formulate our own unique strategies for sensible and more satisfying, creatively purposeful life experiences – starting with harmonizing with our lost kinship and thinking with the natural world.