Ian, over at Ian’s Messy Desk has an excellent post from yesterday – Five tips to help you communicate more effectively
His tips are -
- Know what you want to say
- Don’t beat around the bush
- Keep it short
- Be authentic
- Tell stories
I believe his tips are fantastic advice for anyone trying to share a deep experience in a giving way. Very few teachers embody all five off those tips, but the good ones usually have at least four going at any one time. I think, when getting to the roots of the path of self-inquiry, tip three is both key and terribly difficult. At it’s heart the best teaching seems to be – Keep looking relentlessly until you find it. But, trying to explain how the unexplainable manifests in life is almost inevitably a long train.
