Compassionate Communication | Deep listening đź‘‚
I Know You Are There And I Am Very Happy
Beginning Anew, by Sister Chan Khong and Thich Nhat Hanh
... See morePeople have both flowers and compost inside. Our practice is to water the flowers in them, and not bring them more garbage. When we try to grow flowers in a garden, if the flowers don’t grow well, we don’t blame or argue with them.
We ask ourselves what we can do to help them bloom. Your partne
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)
Theory U
I Am Here For You
Words Are Windows
(or They’re Walls)
I feel so sentenced by your words,
I feel so judged and sent away,
Before I go I’ve got to know,
Is that what you mean to say?
Before I rise to my defense,
Before I speak in hurt or fear,
Before I build that wall of words,
Tell me, did I really hear?
Words are windows, or they’re walls,
They sentence
... See moreMarshall B. Rosenberg • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
On some nights, when all her friends had gone home, she would sit alone for a long time in the old theater’s large, stone rotunda listening to the deepening silence while the starry sky arched high above her.
Whenever she did this, she imagined that she was sitting in the middle of a giant ear that was listening in on the entire cosmos, and she ofte
... See moreMichael Ende • Momo
Sufi poet Rumi once wrote, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
Marshall B. Rosenberg • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships
Appreciative Trios | Playbook
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