Susan Chapman’s approach to mindful communication showed up recently on CNN’s website, in an article on Tech Addiction by Amanda Enayati: When someone’s tech addiction causes you stress “….Communication is the essence of human relationships, says Susan Gillis Chapman, author of the book The Five Keys to Mindful Communication. “She Read more…
A psychologist probes how altruism, Darwinism and neurobiology mean that we can succeed by not being cutthroat. An interview of Dacher Keltner, director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory by David DiSalvo. Dacher Keltner, director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Laboratory, investigates these questions from multiple angles, and often generates results that are both surprising Read more…
This short clip is about a debt collection company whose business strategy is to be kind to those in debt. Who knew they could beat their competitors through a “we-first” approach?
This traffic policeman shows that even when we have to deliver bad news, our mindfulness of the relationship makes all the difference.
By Chris Kaiser, Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today “Clinicians who focused on mindfulness improved their well-being and were viewed more favorably by patients, two studies showed. In one study, clinicians who had the highest self-rated scores for mindfulness were more likely to be patient-centered in their communications, more positive in their emotional Read more…
by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence “Alexander Graham Bell, noting how the sun’s rays ignite paper only when focused in one place, advised, “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.” Yet ordinarily our attention wanders, a sitting duck for whatever distraction comes our way – especially when our Read more…