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The inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person

Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 25 June 2015

 



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The inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person
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Knowledge LetterAppears in the Gurteen Knowledge Letter issue: 180
Posted DateThursday 25 June 2015 16:19 GDT
Posted ByDavid Gurteen

A friend asked recently why we seemed to get on so well in conversation. I replied that we both tended to be non-judgemental and open minded and thus we felt safe. But it reminded me of this quote from Dinah Craik.
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

But I have another shorter, less eloquent way of saying something similar:
The kind of conversation I like is one where I don't feel the need to censor anything I say!

Credit: David Gurteen

Kind of in response to Theodore Zeldin's "The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person" :-)



If you are interested in Knowledge Management, the Knowledge Café or the role of conversation in organizational life then you my be interested in this online book I am writing on Conversational Leadership
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