What I've come to understand and appreciate is that expressing feelings to trusting people is both a public act and a responsibility. It is cleansing, healing and critical to our own growth and to those around us, including our families and communities.
David Gurteen's comments: Jo's words capture this concept so well. I've never written it or even consciously thought it but I have always felt this about feelings - not that I have been that good about expressing them. I love it when other people crystalize what has long been tacit in me - it helps me recognize what is important in life and focus my energies a little more. What do you feel about expressing your feelings?
Quotations are extremely effective at capturing and concisely communicating thoughts and ideas. They can be inspirational but more importantly quotations can help us reveal and assess the assumptions, values and beliefs that underlie the ways in which we perceive the world.
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In order for any of our interventions to be impactful, we must face certain truths about the human condition: the need to be right; to be in control and to look good.
What I've come to understand and appreciate is that expressing feelings to trusting people is both a public act and a responsibility. It is cleansing, healing and critical to our own growth and to those around us, including our families and communities.
KM initiatives should be designed to disrupt current established: belief systems; unexamined assumptions; hypocrisies and entrenched thinking in order to create deep change in people/organizational systems.
If you are interested in Knowledge Management, the
Knowledge Café
or the role of conversation in organizational life then you my be interested in this online book I am writing on
Conversational Leadership
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