Authentic Eye Contact
These words by Doreen Hamilton hang on the wall at our San Anselmo training center: “The confidence to speak in any public situation transforms your ability to be yourself in all areas of your life.” Relational Presence is key to this wide-ranging...
The Biological Basis of Relational Presence
Many perspectives are available on the alchemy of Relational Presence from the realms of creativity, philosophy, and science. Creativity I believe that every human mind presents a unique landscape, an essentially foreign universe to every other mind. (To survive and...
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.)...
The Synergy of the Brain
On October of 2011, Dr. Doreen Hamilton and I completed our annual certification training for new Speaking Circle facilitators. Our eight participants included two from UK and one each from New Zealand and Canada, so the international flavor was strong. In four days...
Speaking Circles®
Learn how to move through stage fright rather than trying to mask it by sharing who you really are.