How to DO Empathy
A mini-training on how to DO empathy… If you’d like to see a page with the transcript, you can see it here. Ready to go deeper? Check out our Nonviolent Communication Home-Study Course! […]
Month: September 2011
I was shocked – a parable on multiple perspectives
If not shocked, I was in disbelief when my wise and worldly friend told me he had never heard the parable of the five blind men and the elephant. I see it as a metaphor holding some key attitudinal principles for our times. In case you haven’t heard it, here goes my paraphrase: Five men […]
The surprising usefulness of fear, Pt. 3
My definition of courage is not: lack of fear. My definition of courage is presencing any fear that might be there — and regardless — taking the next step and the next. When it comes to events or public speaking one my favorite expressions, gleaned from Outward Bound when I was 18, is “The trick […]
The surprising usefulness of fear, Pt. 2
At the end of your short life — all our lives are short, and the clock is ticking — you will most likely regret the things you didn‘t do, more than the things you did. “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there […]
The surprising usefulness of fear, Pt 1
For me it’s not about “fear is good or fear is bad.” The trick is in distinguishing which of the many voices of fear is speaking. (I really enjoyed how Seth Godin talked about how sometimes our freakouts — especially the fear that paralyzes us, or causes us to turn back, play small, & stay […]