Essential Elements: Relational Presence
Relational Presence is the state of experiencing connection with one’s audience without agenda, or even a need for words, in any given moment. It is a foundation for powerful connected communication, where speaker and audience feel as if they are participating in a...
Public Speaking: The Dance of Attunement
In the article The Gaze of Attunement last year here, I made the connection between brain science and the potency of Relational Presence practice for public speaking. I wrote that if our mom or dad didn’t gaze back with loving availability when we started...
Speaking in Pleasure
Pleasure is not a feeling commonly associated with public speaking for many, and brain science research published recently gets to the very heart of why this is so. This column about pleasure emerged from great pain evoked in me by the new findings, which made me...
Relational Presence: Transforming Relational Trauma
A Crucible for the Repair and Transformation of Traumatic Mis-Attunement As well as being a Speaking Circles® Facilitator and certified coach I have also been practising as a relational psychoanalytic psychotherapist since 1997 with children, adolescents and adults....
Public Speaking and Healing the Father Gaze
In another article I reported that modern brain science explains the potency of Relational Presence practice in healing the deficit in the “gaze of attunement” that infants ideally shared with a mother figure starting around age 4 months. (See article.)...
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