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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 began...
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Albert Einstein said: "You cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that caused the problem." A century ago the notion that a person can significantly alter their life experience by transforming their thinking and beliefs was radical. Now it has become a...
Speaking with Charisma
Most of the people I work with are over 40, and I am becoming a connoisseur of seasoned charisma. Charisma has a bad name in some circles because in its unripe state it can show up as manipulative charm. But in its fully developed form, charisma is a quality of...
Public Speaking From the Center of the Earth
Image Credit: NASA's Earth Observatory Your first 15 seconds in front of a group--whether giving a talk or opening a meeting or training--presents an extraordinary opportunity to meet your audience at the one point in time and in space you all share in common. The...
How to Think and Speak at the Same Time
Any degree of public speaking fear, from stage fright to mild anxiety, can be seen as a problem in harmonizing one's speaking with one's thinking. You may tend to think too fast to keep up with in your speaking, or your mind "freezes" and you can't speak at all. Or...
Lee’s Story: The Genesis of Relational Presence
I was as shy as a chubby awkward kid from Brooklyn could be, and my proclivity for tortured self-consciousness led to a full-blown case of stage fright that didn’t abate until I was in my mid-fifties. Even one-on-one conversation often found me in a state of...
How To Amplify Your Professional Presence
Business and career fruition is largely the result of what I call professional presence. That is, your value in the world of commerce is determined by the pleasure of your company (personal presence), how you hold what you know, and the clarity and verve with which...
Your Leadership Contribution
True leaders heed the call to live out loud through events in their lives that demand participation from a deeply emotional place. One obvious example is Michael J. Fox. After contracting Parkinson's, advocacy for patients with the disease became his life work....
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