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Rebecca Silva-Faville

Notes from a workplace contemplative—where the inner life meets the outer setting

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I’m an average middle-class worker, a registered nurse, pursuing integration of work, home, and community. One seamless, healthy existence lived out in many contexts, seeking to move with openness and curiosity first, then advocacy; Held as a small, beloved part inside a much larger, mysterious story. I draw on many perspectives and disciplines to explore how my/our participation in a broken system may contribute to wholeness, reconciliation, and (if at all possible) redemption.

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Come from “I”

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Come from “I”

Have you ever caught yourself speaking about your own experience and starting every sentence with the word “You”? “So, you know when you… and then you think…”

Next time, try beginning your sentences with the word “I” “I experience…” “I want…” “It’s my assessment that…”

Notice how much more visceral this feels. How raw and vulnerable. How honest and powerful.

Notice that it puts you deep into your own body and evokes awareness.

Now, invite your conversation partner to share something with you in the same way. Notice the connection you experience.

What seems possible from that place?

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