Airborne toxic event
What's the difference between: attentively drawing out a shared perspective and compassionately encouraging someone else's point of view and passionately expressing a personal point of view?
I did all three today.
In a workshop setting, I found myself professionally engaged in mode #1. I listened, I heard, I rephrased. With a 16 eyeballs staring at me as 8 mouths expressed any combination of ideas, I took those clouds of words and stitched them together into sensible, coherent strings of meaning. (What a strange word picture.) I was wielding attentiveness, neutrality and care — dancing between statements and assertions and opinions and reactions to help point out what is similar, and suggest ways forward. I heard from the many, to help people see what we all had in common in our pursuit of the possible.
In that same setting, I found myself needing to zero in one just one key perspective. A person whose reality hadn't been properly incorporated or addressed. It needed closeness. Direct af…
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