Conscious Conversation: Recent Episodes
Anne Nicholson
What is more enlivening than light? Conversation. Conscious Conversation can not only awaken new human capacities, but also liberate the emotions and the spiritual will while contributing to a social background that gives real community an explicit value. Conscious Conversation provides a way forward despite a social future that appears destined to be mind-numbingly complex, frustratingly impersonal, and economically inequitable.
In this episode, Anne talks about the fundamental conversational algorithm and why it's important in creating a safe space with rules of engagement that enable human understanding and elevate conversation into a high art.
The work of conscious conversation owes its initial inspiration to the foundational work of author, educator, environmentalist and eurythmist Marjorie Spock (1904-2008). In this episode, Anne reads excerpts from Marjorie Spock's essay Reflections on Community Building from Group Moral Artistry.