It's awkward to pay attention to your team's posture, breath, voice, touch. But cultivating that attention tells you things even before anyone's found the words for them.
Love this question. Thanks, Mike. If you're referring to general social awareness in the emotional intelligence literatures (are you?), I'd say there's some overlap. You're on to something for sure. But the focus of this newsletter issue was on somatic awareness. I was trying to isolate something almost material: the body, posture, voice, breath, etc.--and then ask, "So, yeah, what is this layer of experience telling us at work?" What do you think? It was an experiment! But I'd hazard that some of this body awareness precedes the attention essential for empathy.
Do you think the subskills of 'noticing' overlap with the subskills of general social awareness?
Are they essentially the same process?
Love this question. Thanks, Mike. If you're referring to general social awareness in the emotional intelligence literatures (are you?), I'd say there's some overlap. You're on to something for sure. But the focus of this newsletter issue was on somatic awareness. I was trying to isolate something almost material: the body, posture, voice, breath, etc.--and then ask, "So, yeah, what is this layer of experience telling us at work?" What do you think? It was an experiment! But I'd hazard that some of this body awareness precedes the attention essential for empathy.
Yes. That is the prework I'm intersted in.
I've got a couple of people in my life who are not neurotypical, don't care about relationships at all, and don't 'notice' in just about any area.
So I often wonder if there are subskills with 'noticing' that I can drill with these two that might lead to tangential improvement in empathy.