I was facilitating a workshop for students. The goal was to help everyone identify the bubbles they live in, and to encourage them to strategically pop those bubbles.
I asked questions that encouraged laughter:
Then questions that would help them think about their courage:
Speech was controlled in the place we lived for four years, in many ways. Below are a few examples:
Imagine learning that a very obstinate peer is going to become your new boss. Yes – the opinionated one that is like a dog with a bone and just won’t drop a subject, and almost always opposes your point of view.
To say you are concerned is an understatement! That overwhelming dread you are feeling is fueled by RAW FEAR.
Yesterday I was visiting with a woman whose husband and daughter had recently returned from a mission trip where they were helping Syrian refugees.
The refugees were primarily middle class families that left everything behind (homes, jobs, family, treasured keepsakes, toys…) and fled for their lives.
With no income and winter coming their physical needs are astronomical!
So both the husband and daughter were shocked when they discovered that the biggest need these people shared was not physical….
Last week I read a blog post from Gary Vaynerchuk that included this quote,
“Social media is the first true listening platform, not speaking platform.”
This week I applied that reminder to all of my life – This is what I experienced:
