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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

375: How and Why to Communicate Mindfully with Oren Jay Sofer

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Meditation practitioner and author Oren Jay Sofer hashes out the tenets of mindful and non-violent communication to help get ot the heart of every interaction.   You’ll Learn: Key steps for getting what you want without causing defensiveness in others Two points of subtext to listen for when someone speaks How to gain emotional agility   About Oren Oren Jay Sofer leads retreats and workshops on mindful communication throughout the United States. A member of the Spirit Rock Teachers Council, he holds a degree in comparative religion from columbia University and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and a Certified Trainer of Nonviolent Communication. Oren also creates mindfulness training programs for apps and organizations. He lives in Richmond, California.   View shownotes, links, and transcript at www.awesomeatyourjob.com/ep375 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McKitis.

0:17.0

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 375,

0:22.8

Worn J. Sofer.

0:23.7

I'm excited to share this conversation

0:25.8

with you with the person that I listen to just about every morning

0:29.8

in his meditation apps.

0:32.1

Warren is a choice instructor because he's real good.

0:35.7

And so this time we're talking about mindful and nonviolent communications, the difference that

0:40.0

makes, how it's done, so you'll learn one.

0:42.8

Key steps are getting what you want

0:44.3

without causing defensiveness and others.

0:46.6

Two, key points of subtext to listen for

0:50.0

when someone speaks, and three,

0:52.1

how to gain emotional agility.

0:54.1

So if you'd like to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the links to

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items we've referenced you'll find that on over at awesome at your job

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dot com slash f375 and while you're at awesome at your job

1:04.0

dot com, I encourage you to check out some of our cool stuff.

1:06.6

One cool thing is the gold nugget email list which gives you access to

1:10.0

summarized wisdom from Orrin and the 374 guests who've come before him, the

1:15.0

guests to come after him, and a quick email you can read in two to five-ish minutes,

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