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Discussion
In terms of
HP101, you are now familiar with the ideal health promotion practice:
i.e., one that fully uses diverse strategies (we presented seven
in Module 5), manifests key features
(presented in Module 6), and
expresses four important values (presented in Module
7). Yet few among us act in that ideal manner across time and
circumstances. There is a gap between our ideals and our reality.
Peter Senge
in The Fifth Discipline (1990) illustrates these gaps with
the picture of a person holding a rubber band between two hands.
The upper hand establishes the ideal or vision. The lower hand represents
the current reality. Where there is a difference, the rubber band
now creates a tension that seeks to resolve itself. The simplest,
easiest and wrong solution (as H.L. Mencken reminds us, these often
co-exist quite happily) is to surrender and lower your vision, or
to distort current reality by seeing things better than they really
are. The more difficult yet better resolution is to creatively and
purposefully move to close the gap, to avoid or eliminate a bad
situation and/or create a good one.
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This
module helps you to work through the process of closing
the gap.
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