Legitimate other

Treating another as legitimate means honouring they, like me, have a set of Core concerns and are acting in Concernful activity to their best ability.¹ When I Listen for their concerns, free from my prejudice and assumptions, I can hold them legitimate.²

Legitimate other is broader than Respect. It is the right of another’s Soul to exist as it wants to.

Every time I illegitimise another, I diminish myself.

Footnotes

1. We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behaviour ↩

2. Sieler (2003), Coaching to the Human Soul (Volume I) > Chapter 5 - Listening The Unacknowledged Dimension of Language ↩