We want you to experience all of them, but just note this example from my personal experience: And there's nothing wrong with any of them. Because centered is a way that we will most achieve opportunities to build bridges and build relationships with other individuals.Īnd so just looking around the compass, oftentimes we either fall into the feeling or the emotional quadrant, the believing or the moral quadrant, the thinking or the intellectual quadrant, and the acting or the relational quadrant. Instead of landing in emotions, we want to evaluate and assess where you are in each one of these categories so that you can be centered. It's interesting to see how I've progressed through my continual practice. After some practicing, Paul, I’m actually seeing that I no longer hardcore die in the emotional space. So for example, I tend-specifically, when engaging in conversations that are complicated-I tend to show up a lot of times in my emotional space. You can have a couple of different spaces that you react to immediately. You don't have to only come from one specific space. And we really boiled this down to four spaces in which you traditionally come from.

The compass in and of itself is just a tool that we utilize to express that sometimes when we come to the table, we're coming to the table from a different space than the person who we may be engaging with. Shomari: Courageous conversations are opportunities for us to engage with each other, seeking opportunities and ways to learn and grow within ourselves and within relation to one another. That turned into this podcast that we have called Coffee with a Little Bit of Cream, which is Shomari and I talking about all things related to equity and education we bring on guests, and it's fun.Ĭould you talk about your work around engaging in courageous conversations? What are they? Coming out of COVID, we started having conversations with each other just about stuff that we are noticing and just issues that were surfacing, and so we decided to start recording it. We work on various projects together, but mostly, the thing that we do together is this podcast, this little project that we started. Paul: I've been working with Shomari for several years now. How did you meet and start working with each other? I'm associate professor of education at Pacific Lutheran University. I am the director of equity and strategic engagement for the Bellevue School District.

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