Sublime

As a facilitator, it’s important to discern between the overachieving student who needs to be encouraged to relax and fall into receptivity and the student who is hesitant and dragging her feet. The hesitant participant needs to be lovingly pushed toward her growth edge. This can be achieved by encouraging participants to ask themselves if they are

Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger, by Peter Bevelin.

Gallwey’s more recent Inner Game of Work (2001)

emotional intelligence—an ability to understand and regulate one’s own feelings and desires.

When we are rushing through a busy day, worried about getting to the next place on time, we tend literally not to notice the people around us, let alone their needs. There’s a spectrum that runs from self-centered preoccupations (I’m late!), to noticing the people around us, to tuning in to them, empathizing, and finally, if they are in need, actin

A fascinating example is the divide around emotional intelligence.38 On one extreme is Daniel Goleman, who popularized the concept.

The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, co-authored in the recent 6th Edition with Molyn Leszcz.

by the subjects. In his excellent book The Compassionate Mind, psychologist Paul Gilbert,

He told me that his greatest insight after years of conducting organizational learning projects and facilitating corporate change is that the success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervener.