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View from the Edge
Early spring, a close friend was diagnosed with anal cancer late stages. She is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. Her oncologist believes she will make it through. My friend, I’ll call her Heather, wants to believe this too. Heather has a serious agenda. Her objective is total healing. And to experience total healing, she must ask ...
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Don’t Trash, Converse to Learn
In my previous entry, I shared my son’s pile of “treasure” which some might perceive as trash. Using that metaphor as a segue, I offer some communication gems that can help us draw out treasure from an exchange. In the Society for Organizational Learning’s journal “Reflections“, Raymond D. Jorgensen shares “five guidelines for learning conversations.” ...
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Trash or Treasure
My son collects “treasure.” He tucks away pieces of pencil graphite that he picks up off the floor of his classroom. These small 1/8″ pieces gather on his desk. I am not sure what he will do with them. But he values them. He also gathers plastic tops of various colors. Aluminum wrappers, colored in ...