ABSTRACT
This chapter develops practices aimed at creating authenticity in action, as the way toward personal wholeness. Authentic caring actions depend on being connected to the immediate world, which condition depends, in turn, on the primacy of the right-brain. Certain practices can break through the hold of the left and bring forth or “presence” the world, engaging the right hemisphere. In a world full of devices that are designed to decontextualize and generalize the situation, the left-brain tends to be in charge. Presencing can be induced by attention-directing devices, like speed bumps. The right brain can be “strengthened” directly by practices such as critical thinking, mindfulness training, reflective practice, or mood control. Music, poetry, and art exercises also work on the right-brain. Even the design of place can facilitate presencing.
