Sometimes we mess up a conversation, despite of our best intentions. Last week, I have had a few learnings and a reminder from breaking a rule during our relationship detox practice.
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Detox your relationships
Is it time to detox your relationships? What comes with the globally shared experience of constrained, uncertain lives is the globally shared experience of strained relationships. If you are more edgy and impatient than you would wish, here’s a practice you to (re-)create better relationships at work and at home.
No more sweeping things under the carpet
At Choose Leadership, Connor McDonough and I are committed to sharing what we make up about each other and the world. When we interpret something in a way that triggers us, we share and process what’s happening for us. By doing that, we support each other to do the inner work of leadership.
What we know for sure, is that our reactions have less to do with the other than with our own life experience.
As we work together a lot, we generate lots of opportunities for bumping up against each other. And so, together with our co-creator Ina Zukrigl-Schief, we were wondering: Can we bring this work to people who have just met for the first time?