Todd Porter joins Clay Boykin on In Search of the New Compassionate Male Podcast Todd and Clay discuss the role of words in our thoughts and speaking, words that bring connection or separation. In this episode of In Search of the New Compassionate Male Podcast, we explore ways that our words can bring us toward… Read more: Compassionate Communication & NVC

Todd Porter on A Priest & A Rabbi Podcast   Todd Porter joins Father Christian and Rabbi Durbin on their podcast, A Priest and A Rabbi. They ask whether people of faith can actually be the models of communicating with love and compassion and HONESTY? Spoiler alert: they all think so! Listen along for some… Read more: How to communicate nonviolently around hot topics

To me, open-handed doesn’t mean that I don’t care or it doesn’t matter if I don’t get what I want… so what do I mean when I say that? Here’s what I mean: I will ask clearly for what I want (not what I don’t want… although I may start with that) and I will be as… Read more: What do I mean when I say open-handed?

Last month when I read this article by Rob Gibson I resonated with the importance of the Clearing and Communication Model. And the thought hit me that another piece of communication that has been really helpful to me in the last few years is the concept of showing up with compassionate curiosity (that I got from… Read more: Compassionate Curiosity in Relationships

There is a cause-and-effect relationship between the stories we tell ourselves and our experience of reality (the stories we live). We create stories to explain our experience, often based only on our own observations and reactions.