The Joy of Listening 3: What we know. Human nature Our authentic nature is the natural child. Young children are amazing when they feel good! They’re creative, flexible, powerful, loving, cooperative, full of ideas, energy, and enthusiasm, and they learn remarkably fast. Tiny children are incredibly effective at making relationships with anybody. A tiny child […]
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Rough Notes on Influencing
Rough Notes on Influencing What is Effective Influencing When the person we want to influence (the client) gets what they want by doing what we want, it is a win-win. How do you do it? You build trust so the client is comfortable talking to you openly. You listen and ask questions to understand what […]
Do we need a “Love School”?
Do we need a “Love School”? How would we teach it? Looking around the world, I see people and organisations, like banks, driven by and addicted to greed. I also see countries spending vast resources on “defence”, driven partly by fear and partly by greed. The profits of defence industries are enormous. People often stay […]
The Sacrament of Presence
The Sacrament of Presence from New City March 2018 REFLECTION – Elisabeth Ohlbock, from Belfast, reflects on the importance of being fully present for one another. Most Saturday mornings I look forward to the video-call appointments with my 41/2-year-old niece Karolina, who lives in Austria. We read storybooks, play hide-and-seek or engage in role-plays during […]