“We listen attentively, without judgment, without interrupting, and without giving unwanted advice.”

That’s from Silvia Bastos’ important article, How To Start a Sharing Circle With Your Loved Ones (and Why You Should).

So simple. We underestimate the amount of self-editing we do when we expect to be evaluated by others in a group conversation.

I’ve seen groups that handle this by discouraging “cross-talk”: if you share, it should be on your own experience, not as a reaction to what others have expressed. It’s an incredibly liberating principle.

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