3 friends today (independently) told me they've been struggling but are afraid of "emotionally dumping" on me
I've been super struggling the past 2 weeks & have felt stuck, unable to express things in an "emotionally safe" way
Gotta setup some bidirectional dumping
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it's nice to timebox it. i've done variations of things where each person gets 20 minutes to just talk about their stuff and focus on their issues and the other person or people focus on them, then switch. feels nice and equitable. 20 minutes can be replaced by w/e
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is this circling?
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actually it was called hamming circles! circling isn't timeboxed and isn't problem-oriented at all (which in some ways i consider a weakness)
I did not expect to see this man appear in an emotional processing context 😅
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B/c you see people getting caught up in less important problems?
Or jumping between multiple & so not making much progress on any?
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circling just isn't about problems, at least the intention is not set in a way that has anything to do with problems. at its best it's about "exploring what is happening, here, now, with these people" but it's not about doing anything about that
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