To become up to date with what is now, we need to change our philosophy, our theory underlying our thoughts, our point of view. Positive Uncertainty's time has come. Positive Uncertainty is a philosophy, a point of view, a 2 x 4 approach to making decisions about the future when you don't know what it will be. It is a paradoxical, ambiguous process for managing change using both your rational and intuitive mind. Today change is not only more rapid, more complex, more turbulent, and more unpredictable, it has moved into uncharted waters.
Breakpoint change brings giant leaps and crucial shifts in the rules that govern success.
What is needed, these authors say, is to take what has been learned about change over the years and apply that understanding to our lives today. Counselors, today, face the same dilemma, finding a balance between helping clients skillfully cope with immediate, short-range problems and creatively managing the profound changes in thinking often required to visualize and cause a positive personal future. Changing our minds will be the most important change in the future, and the hardest. Counselors should lead the way. Positive Uncertainty, a flexible, ambidextrous approach to managing change, encourages the use of both the rational and intuitive mind, and incorporates techniques for both making up one's mind and changing it.