Compassionate Communication | Deep listening đź‘‚
... See moreIn a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.
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“True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”
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Rick Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
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Rick Atkinson,
An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943
A quote from An Army at Dawn
Compassionate Communication: speaking and listening nakedly with our whole being, connecting with what’s alive in ourselves and each other in compassionate ways.
Observations (not evaluations) — When I/you see/hear/remember/imagine…
Feelings (not thoughts) — I/you feel …
Needs — because I/you need/value …
Requests (not demands) — would you be willing t
Both communication and community have the same Latin root, communicare , meaning to impart, share, or make common.
Thich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Communicating
Deep listening and Awareness-based Systems Change
An open mind is the capacity to suspend old habits of judgment—to see with fresh eyes (remove the Voice of Judgment)
An open heart is the capacity to empathize and to look at a situation through the eyes of somebody else (remove the Voice of Cynisism)
An open will is the capacity to “let go” of the old and “let come” the new (remove the Voice of Fear)
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I Know You Are There And I’m Very Happy
Appreciative Trios | Playbook
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