K Street Coaching®

Category: Where Genius Grows

  • Binding the Narratives Together — Interview

    “I always knew that this is a very complex issue and that I don’t want to go for the easy victory. And I think this is what you can very much see in the structure in how we run Germany Close Up.” — Dr. Dagmar Pruin Every year Germany Close Up brings 250 Jewish Americans…

  • Honoring Humanitarian Relief Workers — Interview

    “If you have been to a hockey game or a baseball game . . . you see a phenomenon where at some point in the proceedings a military person is recognized for their service. Always for their service. And I’m not meaning to denigrate the service that the military make, and certainly a very significant…

  • Being Unafraid to Be with Someone — Interview

    “Exercise your witnessing muscle: Go find a good photography book and look at it long and hard. Look at the pictures and practice empathy. Practice witnessing a story that you weren’t there to see and I promise you will find yourself moved. And whatever the source of that empathy is, see if you can’t direct…

  • Signaling in the Right Direction — Interview

    We live in a world where your attention is the most valuable thing you have to offer. It’s in some ways even more valuable even than the money in your pocket, or even more valuable than your vote. The things you choose to allocate your attention to — the shows you watch, the news you…

  • Finding Meaning Underneath the Plot — Interview

    “We’re really interested in the plot of our lives, but we’re not as interested in the way the plot unfolds — the meaning underneath the plot. And if we were to get more interested collectively in not just what’s happening to me but making sense of what’s happening to me, that is a question that…

  • Thinking for a Sustainable Planet — Interview

    “How do we change our economic thinking so that we start to become people who are living in a way that’s compatible with a sustainable planet?” — Gray Cox To look at the world and everywhere see strife and material consumption that our planet is unable to sustain can be demoralizing. But particularly as we…

  • Seeing the Humanity in Others — Interview

    “Listen and do your best to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. That trait is the thing that has saved lives. It’s when people cut themselves off from that recognition of the other person as a human being — that is what gets degraded when we move toward mass atrocities: one of the first steps is to…

  • Acting Like We’re on the Same Team — Interview

    “It’s important to listen both to understand the details of what happened, because remembering the victims and accepting the truth is important to survivor communities, and it’s also important just to make sure people feel heard. Sometimes it’s important for closure, sometimes it’s important as part of a process, sometimes it’s important for reasons that…

  • Creating Your Own Relevance — Interview

    “What people need to do is look at their lives through that lens ‘How much of what I do is intentional and how much of what I do is routine? How much of what I do is considered and how much of what I do is simply a function of I did it that way yesterday,…

  • Offering Your Truth to the World — Interview

    “Anybody offering their truth to the world is a generous act. It doesn’t have to be perfectly wrought or perfectly abstractly conceptualized. But offering your authentic take on the world is just a gift, really. We don’t get a lot of honesty in the world. And emotional honesty is even rarer.” — Sara Mansfield Taber…