If you got chance to read my article on Alethic Coaching in the Integral Leadership review, you may be interested to read the comment I have added about the RRRR model I use. The above article formed the framework for the Alethic Coaching presentation I gave at the International Association of Critical Realism annual conference in July. After the presentation, in conversation, it was felt that adding a few words on RRRE to RRRR, might help the reader’s comprehension of my work and Critical Realism. As I offered the article for publication sometime before the conference, I wanted to use the comments space here to up date the article. One of the aims of Critical Naturalism, seen as one part of basic critical realism, is to create a robust system of inquiry for the social sciences. However, a social science investigation into causal structures and mechanisms is challenged by not being able to work within the closed system of the laboratory. All social science takes place within open systems, how then can a social science hold an investigation, when there may be multiplicity of causes and tendencies. The more I investigated critical realism and its application to personal change, the more I began to see how the human condition is an open system with multiple stream of casual structures and mechanisms. How then can alethic coaching support a client in developing a greater understanding of their own ontology realism, creating more awareness of their epistemological relativism and making better informed choices about their judgmental rationality. One way, and I am simplifying and stripping down the approach, is to use RRREI(C). In the article, I refer to the model as RRRE, which is true, but only in the light of basic critical realism. As the model stands it was found to be lacking two further elements that complete the model, (I)dentification and (C)orection. Therefore, identification of the true or alethic causal structure or mechanisms leads to a correction of data, through the absenting of bad data. This makes the model much more robust, and rounds out the full dialectal process. It is worth noting that the change of E to R in RRRR came about because I did not feel that the model held an adequate conclusion to the investigation. It seemed to me that during the retrodiction stage (the third R in RRRE), there was a process of re-introduction in which the client could check the efficacy of their narrative in light of new understanding. This would then lead to Re-Integration, through the process of recognition of absence and the absenting of demi-real narrative, which forms the main purpose of the MELD scheme of critical realism, but this is another story. (You can find a little more on MELD at alethic-coaching.org/metareality/) During the process of Re-Integration, identification and correction take place. In this way, I am able to maintain legitimacy in line with RRREI(C) and keep the model authentic to the alethic coaching approach I am growing. alethic-coaching.org
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:48:52 +0000
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