CHAPTER8Activating and Responding in a Social Container
In Western culture, we are trained to focus on communication through words. We study the nuances of language and analyze other people’s communication, from e-mails to major speeches. Yet everyday experiences remind us how much is being communicated beyond words: we sense other people’s moods, we feel welcomed or not walking into a room, we know when to leave a threatening situation. Nonverbal cues of communication are intensified in a circle where we pause and face each other. Understanding and harnessing the circle’s energetic patterns is an essential leadership skill.
Amid the snap of table legs folding and the chaos of moving chairs, the radio on the young man’s belt suddenly crackled ...
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