Always Learning

Scene: Madrid, Spain, More To Life’s Relationship Workshop – post workshop mental perambulation through this last weekend. One of the reasons I love doing what I do is that each training either scrapes off yet another chunk of my façade that I didn’t know was there … or it awakens me to a deeper level of my essence … or both.

In this case – it was both! First was a torrent of words coming my way –Spanish via the sound system, English via the translator. I can usually pick up the essence of something said in Spanish, but in this case, it was so fast and so long, that I felt swamped by gibberish, unable to pick out a single word in either language.

In hindsight, I recall many glazed eyes that have come over other people’s faces when I gushed a monologue. Upon reflection, I’m betting it happens when I want to prove a point, or prove I’m right, or keep from hearing a dissenting opinion. It has nothing to do with communication or dialogue.

My antidote: at the end of the day, review my conversations, pat myself on the back for times I connected. For the times I didn’t, I will imagine doing it differently if the same scenario were to happen tomorrow.

My other big wake up was the effectiveness of silence when communicating from the heart.

Thank you to all participants and team and Felipe Gomez (co-trainer) for the gifts of our relationship in my life.