Curiosity is the heart and foundation of our approach. If we have curiosity we can be our own best researchers, detectives, scientists, whatever metaphor lets us notice, explore, test, and thereby understand how to support learning: our own, or that of others in our lives or work.

We have to have curiosity, or we are lost – lost in judgment of ourselves or others, entangled in shame or blame. Without curiosity we might think we know labels for what is wrong, and what they mean. We think that we need to be “fixed” or made right, and often that someone else knows how to do it. If we are not curious we also might assume what others need to “fix” their problems. And if we’re not doing what we think we should be, or if those we are trying to fix don’t do what we tell them, we are likely entangled in another layer of judgment.

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