Understanding Boundaries (Core Competencies: 1.2; 1.3; 1.4; 1.6; 2.6; 2.7; 3.2; 3.5; 3.7; 4.2; 4.10; 4.14; 4.15; 4.17) A boundary can be the: • Emotional and physical space between you and another person. o Emotional and physical space you need to be the real you without the pressure from others to be something that you are not. o Appropriate amount of emotional and physical closeness you need to maintain so that you and another do not become too detached and/or overly independent. • Clear sense of where you end, and another begins or where you begin and another ends. o Set of parameters that make you a unique, autonomous, and free individual who has the freedom to be a creative, original, and dynamic problem solver. • Limit or a line over which you will not allow anyone to cross because of the negative impact of it being crossed in the past. o Established set of limits over your physical and emotional well-being that you expect others to respect in their relationship with you. • Balanced emotional and physical limits set on interacting with another so that you can achieve an interdependent relationship and do not lose your personal identity, uniqueness, and autonomy in the process. Boundaries can be self-defined, mutually identified, flexible or firm, specific to each unique relationship, and can adjust over time as relationships and roles change.
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