by Lee Glickstein | Feb 21, 2013 | Basic Principles
Relational Presence or RP is the state of listening with another beyond agenda, words, personality, effort. It is not itself engagement or making a connection, but rather a state of neutral availability for connection with no demand for it. Connection tends to arise...
by Lee Glickstein | Feb 20, 2013 | Brain Science & Research
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...
by Lee Glickstein | Feb 14, 2013 | Other Applications of Relational Presence
“There have been countless ingenious technological innovations the past 200 years, in the last 50 years especially, all designed to save us time. Remarkable inventions. Somehow, the result has been that nobody has any time left. Why? What is that all...
by Lee Glickstein | Nov 27, 2012 | New Perspectives on Public Speaking
Most public speakers talk faster than their audiences can fully take in, and nearly everyone who shows up at one of my classes for the first time tends to be speedy. Even among professional speakers there is anxiety about stopping regularly for a full breath and...
by Lee Glickstein | Jul 2, 2012 | New Perspectives on Public Speaking
Time continues to speed up for so many of us and it shows up in how we communicate and I’m not here to suggest you slow down and take a pause between what should be shorter sentences because you’ve got so much to do and so do I and we don’t have...