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LISTENING by Catherine Palmer Paton, #ListeningbyCPalmerPaton

Learn (to listen, laugh and love)

Inquire (Why? What Beliefs, Feelings and Experiences?)

Summarize (The Sense of What is Conveyed and Main Points)

Talk (Tell, Don't Yell. Care and Share Attention to Concerns and Ideas)

Empathize (With Reflecting Back What You Heard About Who, What, Where, When and Why Someone Feels Things Went That Way)

Negotiate (How Much Time to Engage Online, On the Phone or Skype, In Writing or In Person With Support People as well as Topics and Ground Rules)

Investigate (All Sides of a Situation,

Here are two stories, one written and one audio (at this time, I plan to get the text published soon--someway, some how so let me know if you want to help on that venture!)  Just google the following and they should pop up. The first is about making friends and helping one another on life's journey which has ups and downs and storms but hopes as well.

The Turtle and The Acorn by Catherine Palmer Paton

The audio of the next one which you can also google, The Jewel Story by Catherine Palmer Paton, takes us on a journey into a world of possibilities 'just below the surface' and raises

You never know where a good deed will lead...and generally that's down a path of very cool networking and nice things in return...but sometimes Not So Much (or At All...) But our game of life with the big IF in the middle is full of Possibil-I-Ties. The "I" in that means any one of us...as in you or I, or other friend or family member, neighbor, fellow student or group member.

That realm of the one and the many having some interplay intentionally and even without a plan is being touted as the new insight we want to play to our advantage...and for our fellow creatures and life forms on the