Tag: mindset
Who Catches You When You Fall? Empathy Partner Tutorial
by Jay Darling When you have a personal crisis or get flooded emotionally, do you have backup? Of course self-soothing (or self-care) is an invaluable skill. And then there are moments when all the deep breaths, visualizations of happy puppies, or rubbing your bellybutton clockwise three times while chanting in Sanskrit language don’t work. At that […]
The Dance of a Connected Conversation: Tango vs. Contact Improv
by Jay Darling If communication is a dance, have you ever had the sense that you were talking with someone but: Your toes were getting squashed under their heels. Their posture was stiff and inflexible. They were getting scandalously close to your wobbly bits? (Gasp!). You just weren’t connected. Maybe it was like the tango […]