Arena: Self-Knowledge for Leading and Supporting
Ways of Knowing I
Introduction
How do we know what we know? Are there different ways that would help us in a deeper understanding? Goethe, a natural scientist who lived in the 1700s, developed phenomenological techniques as a way to cultivate knowledge through our senses. This is a disciplined practice of surrendering, closing our eyes, receiving, in order to allow knowledge to make an impression on us through our other senses.