SERIOUSLY SPEAKING - WHAT DID YOU SAY?

So, what is communication?

Is it that which is received?

Or, that which is actually said?

What's the goal?

Is it competitive or cooperative?

DANCE WITH IT!   EXPERIENTIAL APPS  

An opportunity to experiment with some fun ideas…

THINK ABOUT TWO RECENT CONVERSATIONS…

Conversation #1 worked out great…

Conversation #2 turned into an argument…

What made the difference?

Was the goal sharing or was it proving yourself  'right'?

Was there a 'winner'?

CRASH! BANG!

Ever notice how other animals seem to work out 'plans' to share their turf?

For instance:

'Research shows that birds never have head on collisions while flying because they always veer to the right.'www.wisegeek.com

What do ya say?

Do you have an anti-collision strategy?

ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY…

Another winter holiday approaching…

Another opportunity to be thankful to have come through one more annual cycle…

Another moment to appreciate diversity…

We are all humanly similar and wonderfully different!

May these holidays help us to understand that our ways are not the only ways…

And feel thankful for what we can learn from each other!

See ya next week!

GETTING PAST IT…

“I hope,” she wrote in her email, “we can get past this… I wasn’t really angry at you,” she continued, “just stressed and anxious and I was just sharing my feelings…”

OK check this out:

1)   ‘get past this’…

2)   ‘sharing my feelings’…

Ugh to both!

We don’t ‘get past’ ugliness in our interactions with others.

We are impacted and if we’re smart – we learn!

We learn about who they are and we learn about how their behavior affects us and based on these two things we temper our interactions with them in the future.

And about that ‘sharing’…

What a horrible misuse of a beautiful word!

Try telling the truth lady!  You weren’t ‘sharing’ you were dumping!

What do ya say?  

How do you feel when people are abusive and then try to justify their behavior?

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MY WAY OR THE HIGHWAY

She said:  “He wants everything his way!  Why did he bother getting involved with me if he didn’t want to listen to me?”

Really good question, right?

He said:  “I can’t believe some of the really dumb things she does!  Why is she with me if she doesn’t want to listen to what I say?”

Hmmm…

This is one of those perfect ‘win/lose’ set ups, isn’t it?

Unfortunately, ‘win/lose’ always turns into ‘lose/lose’!

Do you really think if one of them “wins” the other is not going to get them back? 

Sooner or later… KABOOM!

Sound familiar?  We seem to play this out with parents, siblings and friends. 

How do you think we got caught in this one-sided equation?

Whatever happened to sharing?

Any ideas?

Tomorrow:  Winning!

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DIALOGING

One of the things that makes life tasty is the dialogue – Remember those late night junior high school (‘middle school’ to you young-uns) conversations with your best friends?  No matter what happened during the day, sharing made it better! 

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