After a week of early mornings, late nights and engaging in meaningful dialogue, we emerge with the launch of our Community of Practice; In Pursuit of Pipeline Perspectives, our website and shared space to individually post weekly blogs and share our journey with you!
Welcome to my "first blog ever crafted" as I share my reflections on the past week and what stood out for me:
A Common Trait our Core Members and Subject Matter Experts have: Curiosity
Here is what I’ve learned about the advantages of being curious and how this common trait will benefit us throughout our journey:
1. Being curious leads to deeper conversations. In turn, encourages knowledge sharing, appreciation for lived experiences, level of competencies and expertise present.
2. Asking questions is critical to being curious. Questions and dialogue lead to shared meaning and clarity for our team and provide a focus while remaining open and fluid within our journey.
3. Extending our curiosity and understanding outside our individual experiences to challenge ourselves as we explore how the Indigenous people, corporations, government and general population see and understand the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
Sharing an inquisitive nature, a desire to learn, combined with the value we place as communicators to achieve shared meaning will assist us along our journey and application of communication ethics to the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
I leave you with the following quote by Albert Einstein and ask how you to consider how do you stay curious?
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity”.
Albert Einstein
Until next week!
-Melanie
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