Just like keeping a favorite letter, sometimes I keep a favorite voice mail just to hear it a few more times. I’m listening to the words, but more importantly, my soul hears the tone, the emotional inflection behind those words. For me there’s no match when it comes to voice versus text or email. I know. I get it. Sometimes it’s easier, faster and more efficient to communicate by sending a text or an email. Remember, however, your text email – the printed type – is the same from your phone or computer keypad as everyone else in the world. There’s nothing unique about it – just typed words. Communication experts claim that when people are face to face, the …
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The Healing Fields
This photo shows just a few of the over 3000 flags that covered close to five acres of land on a hillside at Cannonsburg Ski Area just 15 minutes outside of Grand Rapids, MI. This memorial is made possible by the Colonial Flag Foundation (www.healingfields.org). Each flag represents a person who died on 9-11. A laminated three-by-five card was attached to each flag pole with the name, occupation and a memory by a family member. I understand there were a number of these “Healing Fields” installations around the country on this ten-year anniversary of 9-11. For me, there was something different about this memorial that caught my emotional, nervous system off guard. I’ve been to all the memorials in Washington …
An Event to Remember
Words Last a Day, Emotions Last a Lifetime We humans are emotional beings. At any given moment you are experiencing an emotion—be it sad, lonely, scared, happy, joyful, etc. Why do you think that 25 to 30 million people watch American Idol Every week? Because it’s emotional! Connecting our emotions to events like conferences or trainings is critical because we remember more of how events make us feel than words spoken. Start Off Connecting Here are two examples of kicking off a conference, meeting or event with a strong emotional connection: The first is called “Good News.” Ask participants to share something that is good in their lives; that they appreciate. As the leader, you can model. For example: “I …
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