conversations

One crucial conversation.

It was a privilege to have a different kind of conversation with a team from a business in Goshen. Family owned and the woman who asked me to come have the conversation designed this incredible space for their employees. It was truly beautiful, rather like images of seen of work spaces in google and apple.
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Chatter of the mind, the power of the heart

As I watch what is happening in the world, listening to the radio, I feel an incoherent wave in me.  I notice the stories starting in the brain “I like that”, “what a stupid thing to say”, “this is creating more conflict”.  Have you ever noticed that chatter of your mind? We all come from
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Conversations to connect!

I am currently in a program about how do we have conversations to connect, truly connect.  It also reminds me of the many sessions I have had using NVC (non-violent communication).  The premise of this work by Marshall Rosenburg, through my filter, is that we all have needs and feelings and when they are not
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Little Taste of Peace

Here in South Bend we have an event that is always the weekend leading up to Martin Luther King’s day. I have facilitated with others this event for the past 7 years, it is part of the Human Rights Commission events.Each year the event has grown, this year there were 13 circles with 13 individuals
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