I guess, considering my bloodline and my early childhood experiences with boats, water craft of all kinds were always going to play an important role in my life.
And that’s where good listening comes in. A good listener will firstly attend carefully to hear the information (or lack of it) at all three levels, then feed back or reflect what is and isn’t being heard. This can then help the talker to fill in the gaps and build a clearer picture of the situation or expand it for themselves. This is the great thing about good listening: you don’t have to solve the problem, but you can help the talker solve it for themselves.
There’s an election coming up so I elected to write about it, with a focus on the slogans we are fed on the myriad billboards that are colourfully decorating our roadsides.
One definition of privilege is not having to be aware of some realities. Privileged in some way that means you don’t even know it. Privilege as a buffer.
We would visit on the weekend and dig potatoes and top, tail and slice green beans thinly on the diagonal and shell fresh green peas for the family Sunday roast dinner.
I guess, considering my bloodline and my early childhood experiences with boats, water craft of all kinds were always going to play an important role in my life.
And that’s where good listening comes in. A good listener will firstly attend carefully to hear the information (or lack of it) at all three levels, then feed back or reflect what is and isn’t being heard. This can then help the talker to fill in the gaps and build a clearer picture of the situation or expand it for themselves. This is the great thing about good listening: you don’t have to solve the problem, but you can help the talker solve it for themselves.
There’s an election coming up so I elected to write about it, with a focus on the slogans we are fed on the myriad billboards that are colourfully decorating our roadsides.
One definition of privilege is not having to be aware of some realities. Privileged in some way that means you don’t even know it. Privilege as a buffer.
We would visit on the weekend and dig potatoes and top, tail and slice green beans thinly on the diagonal and shell fresh green peas for the family Sunday roast dinner.
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