Words matter. They are the bricks with which we build. They set the intention of what is to come. Click the title to read more about this experiment that may show more than we expect about the impact of our words.
Category: On Communicating
Blog posts on the subject of communicating.
Welcome To My Green Room
Green rooms are where performers wait before going onstage. When giving a speech, we often inhabit an 'emotional green room' where we wait in a nervous suspended animation until our name is called to begin our presentation. There's another kind of green room that refreshes and soothes. Here, I invite you to relax: Close your …
Breaking the Ice
So, you've got another meeting to plan. It's that weekly meeting. Same people. Pretty much the same topic. Click here for something to up the engagement!
Are “I-Statements” Selfish or Helpful?
I-statements help keep the temperature down during high-stress conversations. But, one student asks, "Isn't all this I-I-I talk selfish?". Click title for post.
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat
Just a little ditty on the value of repeating when trying to plant a message, an idea, a concept....
Shot at the Sublime
Don't we all have that burning desire deep inside of something we want to do, a version of ourselves we want to be? This poem is about what that feels like for me: The day starts out navy,turns violet-gray,then, that pale yellow starts to heat things up. The sun throws it and I catch it,because I'm …
Focus
'Focusing' is one of the most powerful tools we use to produce, and to produce creatively. It has an earned reputation for being hard to achieve. Even monks cloistered in a silent space struggle. What is it and why is it so hard?
Poem: We Trusting
Relationship, honor, trust, these are tricky things. We pay for our lack of mastery, by turning off, turning away. But oh, the gifts that we may reap with open transparency. This is my poem about it: We had a quick chat, didn't we ... A moment where thoughts, words, feelings
flowed between just us ....
SPEAKING: Intuitively 1
Drawing audience members' thoughts, concerns, questions out before they are spoken can help generate a group discussion. The entire speaking engagement is more productive. How does one develop this intuitive capacity?
Open
... so open that every letter gets its own windowpane. ...so open it doesn't need serifs ... sans serif all the way. ...so open, that the sun probably always shines on it, just like this. Hope I can be that open today. SaveSave
