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Given a similar situation, how could I respond more effectively, for the best and in tune with my vision?

The practitioner asks

 ‘What are my options for responding differently, more effectively, and in tune with my values, given a similar situation?’ Is my vision still adequate in light of this past experience?

 What are the potential consequences of responding differently?

 How do those influencing factors need to shift so I can respond differently?

The cue opens a creative space to play with possibility and plant seeds of possibility in the practitioner’s mind (Margolis 1993). It is an invitation to throw open the shutters of the mind to see things laterally, to get out of our normal frame of reference and challenge our habitual ways of perceiving and responding to practice. It is like opening different windows in the mind to see things from new perspectives.

O'Donohue (1997, pp. 163–164) writes: ‘Through these different windows, you can see new vistas of possibility, presence, and creativity. ‘Complacency, habit, and blindness often prevent you from feeling your life. So much depends on the frame of vision – the window through which we look’.

Get curious! Responding to this cue may be difficult when the practitioner is stuck in a groove of habitual practice or lacks imagination to see the situation differently. Here guides and peers are most helpful to engender alternatives.

In weighing up the best response given a similar situation, the practitioner considers the potential short and long term consequence of each option.