I met Greg Voisen while I was living in Encinitas, California in the year that Compassionate Conversations was with our publishers, Shambhala, and Gabe, Diane and I were cooking up ideas for how to spread the word about what we’d spent the past year or so creating together.

Greg was so encouraging about our book, having worked with so many authors and coaches, as well as entrepreneurs cultivating their spiritual roots.

In this call we moved around numerous topics but what I try to draw out from the book includes some of this:

1. No matter who you are or in what position you might hold, it is challenging at best to understand how your biases are playing out in the way you communicate with others.

2. Conversation has an immense power to deepen our relationships and cast light on our shared reality.

3. Dialogue is the cornerstone of all significant changes in society and the basis of our efforts to create fairer, more equitable conditions for everyone.

4. With practice we are also capable of having conversations where we are fully in the present moment, able to access our goodwill and flexibility, and can use the conversation as an opportunity to learn and grow together.

5. With compassionate conversations, even it feels incredibly challenging, we can be evolve together through using our differences to inform and inspire us, rather than overwhelm and divide us.