The point of radical honesty isn't to invoke another oppressive morality, but to get in touch with our insides. Telling other people the truth works. It's that simple. Honesty leads to greater intimacy. You have to have some guts to take this workshop, but it is rewarding.
Freedom comes from truthfulness. "I didn't want to hurt their feelings" is the biggest rationalization for lying that we have. People can get over having their hurt feelings in about half an hour, and it's the same with anger, which needs to be expressed directly, completely, and honestly to be healing. Telling the truth breaks down barriers, even if it hurts temporarily, because you can relax and get on with life. What is true now isn't true in a little while, because our feelings and the truth change that's the way life is. If you're grounded in your experience, you can forgive yourself and your fellow beings and love life. When we connect honestly, life becomes a lot more fun and a hell of a lot funnier.
This workshop is a carefully designed series of experiential exercises,
supervised practice in honest communication, and discussions about how
the mind works. Dr. Blanton offers a blueprint for action that shows how
we can have lives that work, relationships that are alive and passionate,
and intimacy that transcends loneliness. Be forewarned, this workshop could
transform the way you live your life.
Brad Blanton is the author of Radical Honesty: How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth. The book jacket says "Warning: contains adult language and adult ideas." So does Dr. Blanton, who calls himself "a well-educated, golf-playing, foul-mouthed, joke-telling, Gestalt therapist redneck ego-maniac." Trained in Gestalt Therapy by Fritz Pearls, Jim Simkin, and Robert Hall and in hypnosis by Milton Erikson, he's been a practicing clinical psychologist for 30 years, and also he's been on Roseanne, 20/20, CNN, and Politically Incorrect. He also wrote Practicing Radical Honesty: How to Complete the Past, Live in the Present, and Build a Future with a Little Help from Your Friends, and the forthcoming Radical Parenting: How to Raise Creators and Honest to God (co-authored with Neale Donald Walsch) His visits here have been a gas, and we welcome this pass, too."The truth not only sets us free, it's also the gateway to intimacy, the source of emotional and often physical healing, and the vehicle through which the power of compassion manifests in our lives and in the world as transformation." - Brad Blanton