Essential Elements: Eye Gaze
Eye Gaze in the specific context of Speaking Circles practice refers to a state of being in soft-focused eye contact with one’s listeners in a way that is personal enough to be human but relaxed enough to be “beyond the level of individual personality.” Prolonged Eye...
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...
What to Expect at Your First Speaking Circle®
Speaking Circles are the result of my lifelong journey from severe stage fright to absolute ease and joy whenever I stand before a group. A Speaking Circle consists of up to 10 people, often ranging from newcomers with some performance anxiety – or a lot – to...
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.)...
Public Speaking and The Gaze of Attunement: Mother Mirroring and The Father Gaze
I’ve been reading scientific studies about the mother/infant gaze and understand ever more clearly how Relational Presence practice dissolves the self-consciousness that arises from our earliest disconnects. Mother Mirroring and Attunement Around age 4 months we...
Speaking Circles®
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