In your relationships with other humans, you tend to get more of what you focus upon. Here’s how to express a heartfelt appreciation towards someone you care about.
How to Express Appreciation
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Filed in: Nonviolent Communication
The 4 Stages of a Good Conversation
I often think of conversations as the life-force that enlivens – or throttles – relationships. Conversations are never really complete. They are ongoing. Winding. Emergent. Unpredictable. And, when they are life-affirming and generative, conversations tend to go through some very predictable stages.
Vaccine Conversations
When I mentioned to my mother that I was going to be offering a workshop on how to approach “the vaccine conversation” nonviolently, she laughingly empathized with, “Oh my, you’ve just put yourself in the middle of a hornet’s nest.”
It certainly feels that way.
4 Ways to Connect in Relationships
On a recent group coaching call, I got a number of big questions about how to heal from trauma. In the moment, I remembered how the simple practice of connecting with others and with ourselves can be a fundamental tool for healing. Connection can be healing. With that in mind, I responded by sharing the four key distinctions we try to make when we want to connect rather than disconnect in our communication and our relationships.
Shifting the Domination Paradigm
Last week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for the radio show PARTNER UP! with Amy Carroll. Amy is a coach, speaker, and writer who specializes in communication, so as you can probably imagine, we had a lot to talk about.