How do you reduce resistance? What are the best ways to handle difficult people? What tactics overcome impasse? How can you get someone to ___? These questions all have something in common: They position you to work on someone, instead of with them. What if we revoked our self-appointed permission to work on other people, and pushed ourselves to work with them instead? And what would it mean for the way we act and speak and manage and mediate?

Show notes

Evolutionary baggage

Leading with our curiosity instead of our judgment

Teaching ourselves to stop pushing

Fighting the pop-psych diagnostic habit

Becoming more vigilant about category errors

Teaching our non-judgmental presence to stay in the room with us

Looking for the equal human in front of us