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Laying it bare – monthly round up of May Life Lenses™ blog posts

We’re laying it bare. Stripping it down. Peeling back perspective. In this monthly round up you’ll find the Life Lenses™ blog posts laid bare for the month of May. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around … Continue reading

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Everyone smiles in the same language

Life Lenses™ is all about building bridges across different perspectives. Bringing appreciation to ‘other,’ to ‘different.’ Frequently, when conflict is rife, when tempers are hot, when differences are many, when time is short and resources are low, differences can be … Continue reading

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Is it bacon or is it hot air? – the fine line in miscommunication

If only the line between speaker and receiver, between mouth and ear and between intention and reception was so clear! Is it hot air or is it bacon? Communication gaffes and gaps are full of missed perspectives. Depends on your … Continue reading

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Laying it bare – monthly round up of August Life Lenses™ blog posts

We’re laying it bare.  Stripping it down.  Peeling back perspective. In this monthly round up you’ll find the Life Lenses™ blog posts laid bare for the month of August. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around … Continue reading

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Do you have a heavy, non-useful contact? I did.

Oh the possible poetry of language. And oh what a mess we can make of it, more mess and muck than clear communication. Take jargon for example.  Professional jargon.  Like a dentist.  Like my dentist (that’s him above). Despite the … Continue reading

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Full Monty – monthly round up of July Life Lenses™ blog posts

Knowledge isn’t power, sharing knowledge is power.  In this monthly round up you’ll find the Life Lenses™ blog posts laid bare for the month of July. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around or simply take … Continue reading

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Complexity of communication makes for a bigger brain

Thomas Sander, Executive Director of the Saguaro Seminar at Harvard writes an interesting blog post about how socializing expands brain size. Turns out Oxford scholars say the “more social creatures, among them humans, had the most rapidly expanding brain sizes … Continue reading

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How about a bedtime story a million miles away?

Rising up and gracefully meeting the challenges that today’s ever increasingly fast paced world presents can’t be done with the thinking of yesteryear. Changing perspective means breaking out of the bonds that tie our brains down. Encumbered with false assumptions … Continue reading

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Psst 3 secret tips for how to communicate with a Mountain Life Lens

Psst – hey you!  Do you have trouble communicating with people who have big ideas?  With your boss who drives you  nuts because she’s never specific?  With your colleague because he’s off on another tangent before you’ve nailed down the … Continue reading

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The global launch of Life Lenses™ is today!

I'm over the moon to officially announce (drum roll please) that the Life Lenses™ online assessment launches today. I'm in Paris for the launch and will be leading a Life Lenses™ workshop today at the W.I.N. conference. Discover what the … Continue reading

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