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What Is Collaborative Awareness?

We're all familiar with the term Self Awareness, which is defined as "an awareness of oneself, including traits, feelings, and behaviors." Yet it's fascinating to see how often a group of incredibly brilliant, individually self aware people come together and things suddenly fall apart. Our fast-paced world now demands COLLABORATIVE AWARENESS. Not only must we be aware of our own traits and behaviors, we need to have the knowledge of others' as well—from their perspective, rather than our own assumptions. In every relationship there are at least 3 entities, You, Me, and a third, separate entity called Us. COLLABORATIVE AWARENESS addresses the Us entity and calls upon everyone involved to Custom Design the Relationship to suit the specific people and situation at hand. Because our world is changing in increasingly complex ways, the old ground rules are no longer reliable, and we must consciously design the structure and form of our relationships in order to sustain them.

When you create State of Grace Documents, you are participating in COLLABORATIVE AWARENESS. The process exponentially builds on each individual's investment in themselves in real-time, while simultaneously collaboratively growing the entity of Us, whatever the Us has been formed to do or be, whether in a business or personal context. The COLLABORATIVE AWARENESS process takes us out of blame and into empathy and rapport, out of victim mentality and into personal responsibility; creating healthy, resilient and effortless relationships.