Comments on: Exploring your COMFORT ZONE ! http://www.lifelonglearning.com.au/leadership/exploring-your-comfort-zone/ Enabling potential and sharing perspective through story Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ron Passfield http://www.lifelonglearning.com.au/leadership/exploring-your-comfort-zone/comment-page-1/#comment-5107 Ron Passfield Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:02:41 +0000 http://www.lifelonglearning.com.au/?p=370#comment-5107 Moving outside our comfort zone is scary. This post is valuable because it recognizes that discomfort is a normal part of the learning process but there are ways to manage this. Your reference to Covey and managing responses strikes a cord with me. It's not what (terror) we experience that matters, it's how we act (or "proact") that is important. I think of the young university students in Haiti who lost their homes and universities as they lived through the terror of the Haiti earthquakes. Many of them are now engaged through the Global University of Lifelong Learning (GULL) in the process of educating children in the tent camps of Haiti. GULL is working with World Vision to provide these youth with professional qualifications to recognize that they have stepped way outside their comfort zone in order to make a community contribution. These endeavors make the concept of "comfort zone" a very relative term. Moving outside our comfort zone is scary. This post is valuable because it recognizes that discomfort is a normal part of the learning process but there are ways to manage this. Your reference to Covey and managing responses strikes a cord with me. It’s not what (terror) we experience that matters, it’s how we act (or “proact”) that is important.

I think of the young university students in Haiti who lost their homes and universities as they lived through the terror of the Haiti earthquakes. Many of them are now engaged through the Global University of Lifelong Learning (GULL) in the process of educating children in the tent camps of Haiti. GULL is working with World Vision to provide these youth with professional qualifications to recognize that they have stepped way outside their comfort zone in order to make a community contribution. These endeavors make the concept of “comfort zone” a very relative term.

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