WORDS

“Since the IPH Center team is mostly remote, I look for different ways to stay connected and help build a culture.

One small attempt is by sharing a word — often obscure — but with some relevance to our work.”

 — Dr. John Lyons

Maculate & Capacitate

Some words are best known and most often used in their negatives. That is not always bad since a negative of a negative is a positive. Here are two words where it might be useful to know the positive version of the word in addition to the commonly known negative, although watch the direction of the shift.

Although I try to stay immaculate whenever I wear new clothes, it seems that I invariably manage to maculate the garment. I guess that is just a form of breaking it in and making it familiar.

The TCOM training enterprise is designed to capacitate professionals in learning how to accomplish person-centered assessment.  

It is this later word that is instructive from a TCOM perspective.   The concept of incapacitated, although descriptive at times and circumstances, is fraught with connotations about people that we likely wish to avoid.   We are in the business of capacitating, and we generally do not accept that people are incapacitated.

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