December 18, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Sweet anger harmful aggression Aggression is towards someone or thing. It lashes out, seeking to diminish and shame. It wants to indicate power, but aggression is not fuelled by power, but rather by its absence. Anger in its purity asks us to act towards something...
November 17, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Mixed messages warped signals Communication is complex. In innocence we can communicate something, and the transmission lands distorted. The response we get is dissonant to the intention of the communication. In this little area of human affairs lies the vast chasm of...
November 15, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Humanity is the artwork The polarisation of speech On the one hand, we have political correctness. The rise of the super sensitive. “Don’t hurt my feelings” gone to the extreme. On the other, we have the rise of freedom of inappropriate speech. Hate,...
September 9, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Fidelity in communication When words become redundant. Language becomes a transmission. From my heart to yours. Fidelity in communication is when what I express is what you receive, without any decay in meaning. To communicate from this level requires clarity of the...
August 15, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
No agenda Is it possible? To arrive to a conversation simply to be fully present and dance with the unfolding and the emergent? Or, at minimum, an agenda to connect. Human to human. That is enough. To delight in the curiosity of learning about another. To explore...
July 10, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Always never absolutely I am currently in an enquiry about my use of absolutes. Always, never, absolutely. I have slipped into the habit of being cavalier with my use of these words. In a world where we have con men for leaders – not just of nations but of our...
