Line drawing of three people standing side by side with arms around each other, a heart above them, and an arch connecting the heart to the people, representing unity and love.
A black and white illustration of multiple hands stacked on top of each other, symbolizing unity and teamwork.

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WONDERS of the SOCIAL SELF

  • Gifts Sour & Sweet

  • We experience belonging and exclusion, authenticity and fakeness, transparency and hiding, non-judgment and contempt, reciprocity and deep isolation. The SOCIAL SELF can experience rejection or acceptance, connectedness or misunderstanding and great gains and losses.

  • The SOCIAL SELF can find intimacy, love and support but also can be faced with betrayal, self-defensiveness and loneliness. The SOCIAL SELF can act with kindness, generosity, resilience, justice and mercy.

  • Self-Inquiries

  • What are your most important relationships? Why?

  • What do these relationships teach you about yourself?

  • What relationships have had the biggest influence, positively or negatively on you?

  • How do you sustain or nourish your relationships?

  • My relationships bring meaning to my life, but they do not describe all of me. What about the deeper parts of me?

A diverse group of people of various ages, ethnicities, and abilities, including a person in a wheelchair, standing together and smiling.
Illustration of a diverse group of people standing together, smiling and posing for a group photo.

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