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Is Your Positivity Causing Harm?

Is Your Positivity Causing Harm?

by Scott Swain | Nov 12, 2022 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Parenting, Relationships | 0 comments

Original article from 6/5/2017. One of the most liberating ideas I’ve come to is that being excessively positive can sometimes be as destructive as being negative. What? Are you kidding? What possible drawbacks could there be from always having a positive...
How much violence is in your parenting?

How much violence is in your parenting?

by Scott Swain | Sep 26, 2022 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Parenting, Relationships, Unschooling | 0 comments

Excerpt from Practical Empathy by Scott Swain. Originally written in September 2022. Permissive <> Practical <> Authoritarian A friend came to visit the other day. Let’s call her Jane. She complained some that she was really glad to have somehow found the...
What does integrity mean to you?

What does integrity mean to you?

by Scott Swain | Aug 27, 2022 | All Videos, Liberty, Life, Vids-EQ, Vids-NVC, Vids-Parenting, Vids-Voluntaryism | 0 comments

Video is below From my upcoming book, Practical Empathy: In order to keep it simple and reduce confusion, I'm not going to talk here about the many ways other people define empathy and sympathy. There are many! I'm going to focus on integrity. On Odysee (LBRY): On...
How Can Empathy Transform Business Relationships?

How Can Empathy Transform Business Relationships?

by Scott Swain | Aug 23, 2022 | All Articles, Business, EQ | 0 comments

Originally published in 2019 Have you experienced times when you felt you did your best and you receive only criticism? How about feeling completely misunderstood or unappreciated when your accomplishments seem to be in plain sight? Many of us spend a significant...
7 Ways Practicing Empathy with an “Enemy” Benefits You

7 Ways Practicing Empathy with an “Enemy” Benefits You

by Scott Swain | Aug 20, 2022 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Life, Relationships | 0 comments

Following is an argument for using a form of empathy I’ve developed called Practical Empathy (PEQ), based on and similar to Nonviolent Communication (NVC) by Marshall Rosenberg, PhD. Empathy is not agreement, so you risk no loss of integrity by practicing...
What is virtue and how do we encourage it?

What is virtue and how do we encourage it?

by Scott Swain | Aug 20, 2022 | All Articles, EQ, Liberty, Parenting, Relationships, Voluntaryism | 0 comments

vir-tue [ vurchoo ] 1. goodness: the quality of being morally good or righteous 2. good quality: a quality that is morally good 3. admirable quality: a quality that is good or admirable, but not necessarily in terms of morality. “If you make a choice under...
Kids, Bubble Wrap, and Empathy

Kids, Bubble Wrap, and Empathy

by Scott Swain | Aug 1, 2022 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Marxism, Parenting, Relationships, Vids-NVC | 0 comments

Originally written by Scott Swain in 2016. Based on his book, Practical Empathy, and NVC. Who started it? I think most of us can agree that forcing another person to do something against their will rarely works out as we’d like to see. Yet we do this with...
From Anger to Peace

From Anger to Peace

by Scott Swain | Jun 5, 2022 | All Articles, Business, EQ, Life, Parenting, Relationships | 0 comments

from Scott Swain’s upcoming book, Practical Empathy I used to think fear was the emotion underlying anger. Until a woman in one of my Emotional Intelligence Play Groups said it was actually frustration. I thought about that. I tried to think of a situation where...
Stop giving away your power! Healthy alternative to apology

Stop giving away your power! Healthy alternative to apology

by Scott Swain | Feb 28, 2022 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Parenting, Relationships | 0 comments

This article is an analysis of “The Power Of Wholeness And Healing: Ho’oponopono”https://www.compassionatelistening.org/post/power-of-wholeness… First, I want to point out the potential positive aspects of the above mentioned system. I...
Better to see TRUST as black & white or spectrum?

Better to see TRUST as black & white or spectrum?

by Scott Swain | Feb 25, 2022 | All Articles, Culture, EQ, Parenting, Relationships | 0 comments

Originally written in 2016. Updated. When you think of how much you trust people, do you think in terms of: (A) I either trust them or I don’t. OR (B) My trust for a person has a range from “no trust” or “very little trust” through...
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