Conversation

I love circling, and wish it were incorporated into everyday communication. Here's a summary of techniques/things I've learned: 1. How to hold the validity of an internal experience and also a difference in how someone else perceives you, at the same time 2. How to own your-
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experience in a wide variety of situations; a constant re-approaching of your stories about others as rather an expression of yourself 3. An exercise in empathy - to be able to quickly step into the world of another person (without invalidating your own) 4. A really hard look at-
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the ways in which other people's perceptions so thoroughly shapes my experience and opinions 5. rewriting the instinctive 'judge' response into an 'explore' response 6. coming to terms with the thousand tiny shames lodged into the unexplored crevices of your being
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