Communicate for a Change

Oh dear!😩 Not the sight I was hoping to see at The Hub this morning!😱 Looks like my choice of spooky music will have to wait till next week. 👻🫥

I think we've got so used to evaluating & assessing our words and actions and those of others in terms of good/bad, right/wrong that to conceive of another way to do it seems, what, far fetched, unrealistic, pie in the sky? What though, following the lead provided by Marshall Rosenberg, the architect of Non-Violent Communication, what if we evaluated and assessed those words and actions in terms of how well our present needs were being met?...

If not right and wrong, then what? - Communicate for a Change What to do if we don't criticise or judge?

It's often the case when we ask someone how they're feeling, we get the response written in the title or we get a type of thinking, usually an opinion or complaint, either about our own words and actions or those of others - or both! I'm not at all surprised by this. Perhaps like you, rather than developing my emotional intelligence, I developed an extensive vocabulary of complaint, criticism and judgement language....

Communicate for a Change 'I don't know what I'm feeling...' It's common to hear opinions and criticisms when we ask how someone is feeling. Here's why and how best to respond.

For months, I've been doing a pretty good impersonation of Rip van Winkle (well, I thought it fitted better than Sleeping Beauty!) I was stirred to write because I've been increasingly dismayed by the growing trend of what I believe are harmful communicating habits between us. These habits of disconnected communicating seem to becoming more accepted as normal. I'm seeing and hearing personally critical, even insulting words spoken or written about or to others that I believe would be highly unlikely to be used in person to person comversation....

Natural or Normal? We've developed some unkind habits of communicating in recent times that are becoming distressingly normal

Written & sung by Laura Nyro in 1984, I’d like it if we could have a dose of this now.
https://youtu.be/wntbr_i5Wbk

Born in Kenya in 1940, Professor Wangari Maathai always felt a deep connection to the natural world, even from earliest childhood. She thought the mountainous, green landscape of her home in central Kenya the most beautiful place in the world. After excelling at school, and studying biology and zoology in the USA, she became the first East African woman to achieve a PhD and take up a professorship....

Signposts to the Future - Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement Planting trees a solution to a big environmental problem? Yes indeed, thanks to the work of Nobel Prize winner, Wangari Maathai and the Green Belt Movement she founded in Kenya back in 1977.