COFFEE AND CONVERSATION, MY FAVORITE THING
“When is the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation which wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation in this culture. When have you had a great conversation in which: you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew; you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you had thought you had lost; you and your partner ascended to a different plane; memories of the exchange continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterward?” (John O’Donohue)
Learning to talk "with" each other again
What constitutes a great conversation?
Begin by talking WITH each other rather than talking TO each other.
Begin by listening. No one is interested in what I have to say unless I am first interested in what they have to say.
Begin with understanding. Seek to understand more than to be understood. Conversation is not about me, it is about us.
