124: Dan Harris and Oren Sofer

 

This week we talk to Dan Harris and Oren Sofer about mindful communication

Our guests this week are Dan Harris and Oren Sofer.

 

Dan was a previous guest and we discussed his great book, 10% Happier. In addition, Dan is the current anchor on the weekend edition of Good Morning America as well as Nightline.

 

He has begun creating a series of courses based around 10% Happier. One of those courses features Oren Sofer.

 

Oren is a teacher and practitioner of Buddhist meditation, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), and Somatics. Oren is a specialist in the role of mindfulness in creating better conversation.

 

This conversation was recorded in Dan's office in the ABC Studios in New York.

 

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In This Interview, Oren Dan and I Discuss:

• The One You Feed parable
• Why mindfulness is useful in communication
• The 10% Happier app
• Learning to see confrontation as an opportunity to improve the relationship
• How our cultural conditioning teaches us the Win/Lose paradigm
• How we have a strong negative conditioning against confrontation that becomes hard-wired
• How mindfulness allows us to slow down and monitor our emotional reactions in conversation
• The role of curiosity in communication
• How to become more curious
• Learning to ask "What matters here" when listening to others
• Learning to say that we don't feel like talking instead of just pretending
• The minor discomfort of being real
• How to say things in a way that the other person can hear and understand
• Learning to hold our tongue in certain situations
• How being silent can lead to its own challenges
• The importance of timing in choosing when to address issues
• Context sensitive communication
• The two criteria of good communication: does the other person understand and does it lead to connection

Dan Harris Links

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Oren Sofer Links

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