@GivingVoice
Perspectives on how we use our voice to amplify ideas and things that matter. Also @dbpardes for direct messages
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:11
Session 25: Wobbly Words : Speaking When You’re Confused
And some of of his understanding of the world will be kind of compromised because he's just a little baby. I wanted to ask the Swell community to talk about the idea of conversation as a way to get clear on your ideas, not your opinions, but your actual understanding of a complex topic. I was having a conversation with my sister about the definition of critical race theory
Jayne Carson
@wsjayne · 0:18
You. I have wobbly words. I have I have a hard time getting clear on what I want to talk about. Like bullet points. I guess I should write a script
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:48
But yeah, I think the more we practice extemporaneous speaking and be gentle with ourselves, I think the better we'll get at this and more comfortable with exploring and asking people to explore with us without that pounding sense of judgment and anything else that might keep us from learning as we talk. Thank you both so much
Barbara 😃💙🎻🥁
@Digitalpenz · 4:57
And then there are people who have been in the world without any kind of training or anything and how they're articulating something is important because it's a voice that maybe someone else has never heard before, but yet it speaks volumes and their point hits home. So I think that's all I have to say. But I think that this is a really good topic to bring to the forefront and a challenge to all of us
Andrea Potvin
@GoodEnough · 2:47
And then when it comes right down to it, we're like, I don't know, I'm kind of unsure about this. So that when conversation clarity time, that when you talked about humility and stuff. I think that's huge in conversation, like letting people talk that do have information and knowledge on a subject and then ask the right questions
Jayne Carson
@wsjayne · 0:22
Um I agree. I listened to Roger Love, a voice coach, and he gives you tips on how to speak with clarity. Think before you speak. I believe which I believe our parents taught us that when we were growing up
Michael Lipkin
@mslipkin · 4:15
Ah. Hey, Deborah. This is fantastic. I wish you a lot of luck with this app and this idea, which is fantastic. This is a great subject. I've grappled with this my whole life, and I've got an arc of being wobbly to being not wobbly, to being very wobbly now, which I think is a normal function of age
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:50
But I think we're living in times where there's an incredibly compressed timeline and there's a vote coming or there's something happening that like, that's going to impact people's lives
Moe Johnson
@NeophyteSavant · 3:54
I used to be like that, but I have grown out of it. I really love learning, and I stand to be corrected. And I'd also like to think that I have created an environment for people to feel comfortable around me or coming to me if they're not sure about things, particularly family and friends, anybody for that matter, but more so, family and friends
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:03
Mo. You know, it's so perfect as an example, actually, no, it's not. Wobbly, he had a conviction with his message and expressed himself, but it was out of context in so many circles that were criticizing him. And that's really interesting to me, too, because then we could double down on the fact that it is so crazy right now