Skills of Engagement cultivate meaning and value through dialogue. Integrating Skills of Engagement into our interactions can accelerate awareness and growth when working with collaborative relationship-building. These skills are based on concepts of intrinsic (‘true’) learning as described by Carl Rogers. For example, while giving answers or demands can get a response and teach, this traditional approach does not engage one’s foundation of intrinsic self-worth, nor does it invite and cultivate collaboration, especially during times of confrontation when the connection is distanced even further.
Skills of Engagement looks closely at the more complex structures that make substantial connections in relationship-building, and the structure of interactions that invite dialogue, build trust, and engage curiosity for true learning opportunities. Applications for skills of engagement create possibilities for the dynamic strengthening of self-worth and ownership, as a sense of well-being is enriched with meaning and value.
Skills of Engagement give insight into the states and stages of social-emotional change and growth, and support the daily discipline of one’s practice for creating the flow and direction for daily choices, thought processes and actions, resulting in mutual benefit and quality-of-life outcomes.
