Category Archives: Authentic Dialogue

Changing Stories

Excerpt from blog . . . “When I work with a client who believes they are not a good speaker, I have to nudge them away from their story. To do this, I use guerilla camera work.”

Awaken Your Voice

It works the same way for your voice. A good vocal warm up will gently loosen your muscles, rouse your voice, and move you from a quiet, grouchy, introverted, or the-cat’s-go- your- tongue mode to something more freeing. Let’s call this “yoga for your voice.”

Authentic Dialogue, Part 2

Another reader’s response to the concept that authentic dialogue is like a container with useful empty spaces was this: “How does being quiet differ from ‘creating a useful empty space’ where authentic dialogue can emerge?”

Authentic Dialogue

AUTHENTIC DIALOGUE The other evening as I sipped my tea and listened to friends talk, I began to consider space as it relates to conversation. The dialogue that night wasn’t the kind that invites participation and my mind wandered to a few lines of poetry by Lao Tzu: Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where [...]