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103 How To Engage Another Person's Story

The Place We Find Ourselves

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Principle Number One of Effective Story Engagement

Attunement to the storyteller is more important than engaging their story brilliantly. To attune to someone is to pay attention to their nonverbal communication, especially their facial expression and tone of voice. Questions like, what are you feeling in your body right now? Will allow you to track with their inner experience. This work is weird, but it's so fun, because it's like being a detective," she says. "It's impossible to do this work perfectly"

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