Communicating for a Change
Ilene Bergelson
- Introduction
- The body as an instrument
- Body, mind, spirit
- How do we picture our whole self?
- The recipient's ability to understand the message
- Helping clients to get it
- Cultivating kinesthetic awareness
- Recognizing internal responses
- Sharpening our hindsight
- Making mid-course corrections faster
- More versatile communication
- Four steps to effective communication
- Awareness
- Identifying what’s happening
- Interrupt the pattern
- Adjust
- Walking the walk of self exploration and discover
- Being a role model for clients
- Exercising a sense of objectivity and empathy
- Introspection
- Self communication
- Effective communication starts within
- Confusing empathy with sympathy
- Imaginatively projecting yourself into another’s situation
- Guidance versus direction
- The difference between and average communicator and an truly outstanding communicator
- Being aware an in touch enough to where there is a great level of access
- Find a bridge that connects you to the other person and then cross it
- Through our connection to ourselves within, enables us to be more present so that we can connect with the other party in a more profound way, thereby be readily available to them in order to elevate the exchange
- Losing touch with what it’s like to ask people to step outside their comfort zones
- Connecting more organically with what our clients are going through
- Educate: To lead out
- Anytime we enter into an exchange with another party, there is an unknown
- We tend to explain things the way it makes sense to us
- Construct frame of reference and examples for others
- Understanding before we’re understood
- Communicate in a way that’s most effective for the other party
- Adapting your communication style
- Modeling
- Paul Chek
- Annette Lang
- Artemis Limpert
- Empower speak workshops
- Communicating from your core
- Light bytes