Gail Larsen http://www.realspeaking.com Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:48:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 A Raucous Holy Fool’s Day to One and All! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/WIc4JQwcotg/ http://www.realspeaking.com/a-raucous-holy-fools-day/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 03:53:01 +0000 Gail http://www.realspeaking.com/?p=1744 April 1 is the day to find your voice, speak your truth, and shake things up.  Forget the pranks and silly antics of April Fool’s Day. Become a Holy Fool! Each year I remind you that this is your day to speak out.  Here is last year’s post to inspire ideas for the outer expression [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/a-raucous-holy-fools-day/feed/ 3 http://www.realspeaking.com/a-raucous-holy-fools-day/ Get Your Spark of Madness on For Holy Fool’s Day http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/HnbzruS_mFs/ http://www.realspeaking.com/get-your-spark-of-madness/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:44:55 +0000 Gail http://www.realspeaking.com/?p=1500 “You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” – Robin Williams Lately I’ve been applying the above words from one of my favorite philosophers, Robin Williams, to the art of transformational speaking. Most of us tame our madness to fit into what others expect and never use our inherent spark to [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/get-your-spark-of-madness/feed/ 3 http://www.realspeaking.com/get-your-spark-of-madness/ Don’t Sanitize (or Dramatize!) Your Story: A Lesson in the Power of Real Emotion http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/g8DzjyB0Xi4/ http://www.realspeaking.com/dont-sanitize-or-dramatize-your-story/#comments Sun, 18 Mar 2012 04:37:11 +0000 Gail http://www.realspeaking.com/?p=1478 When teaching at Omega Institute last summer, I received a poignant reminder of the power of expressing our emotions as we speak. A woman in my class moved us all with her heartbreaking and heart-opening story. First we learned of the medical error that led to her loss of the child she was carrying, and [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/dont-sanitize-or-dramatize-your-story/feed/ 1 http://www.realspeaking.com/dont-sanitize-or-dramatize-your-story/ 2012: Your Life is Speaking – What Story Will it Tell? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/P55mPyiv1mk/ http://www.realspeaking.com/2012-time-to-occupy-a-better-story-or-a-better-story-about-time/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:32:59 +0000 Gail http://www.realspeaking.com/?p=1387 Foretellings from many cultures point to 2012 as the time when we pass from an old world and way of being to a new time on planet earth.  While we can recognize the economic, political and cultural turmoil around us as fundamental to this dynamic shift, and ultimately a good thing, it’s easy to shut [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/2012-time-to-occupy-a-better-story-or-a-better-story-about-time/feed/ 8 http://www.realspeaking.com/2012-time-to-occupy-a-better-story-or-a-better-story-about-time/ A personal message from Gail… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/EpnQCUv6lGc/ http://www.realspeaking.com/a-personal-message-from-gail/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:22:02 +0000 Gail http://www.realspeaking.com/?p=1382 Many of you have written to ask where I’ve been, am I okay, why haven’t I been in touch, and even to say you miss my occasional newsletters.  Thank you!  It has been a fallow time in my creative life as my outer life has been taking my full energy.  But the seeds of new [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/a-personal-message-from-gail/feed/ 4 http://www.realspeaking.com/a-personal-message-from-gail/ The Four Bones of a Transformational Speech http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/Iv8uHAsk--s/ http://www.realspeaking.com/the-four-bones-of-a-transformational-speech/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:20:59 +0000 Gail http://truthwellspoken.com/?p=195 Cultural anthropologist Angeles Arrien, author of The Four-Fold Way, teaches there are four bones to which we must pay attention if we are to remain fully present in our lives. As in life, so it is in speaking! Here are the four bones: 1. First, the wishbone. That is where our vision resides, the place [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/the-four-bones-of-a-transformational-speech/feed/ 0 http://www.realspeaking.com/the-four-bones-of-a-transformational-speech/ Personal Reflections on We the People http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/sPsdXd32MYE/ http://www.realspeaking.com/personal-reflections-on-we-the-people/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:48:29 +0000 Gail http://truthwellspoken.com/?p=350 The U.S. mid-term election results were a reminder that once a constituency is “won,” it is only the beginning of a relationship. Just as motivational fervor is quick to die after the speaker sells a bunch of product, a politician’s success is not sustainable without continued attention to those who voted. Last week’s Transformational Speaking [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/personal-reflections-on-we-the-people/feed/ 0 http://www.realspeaking.com/personal-reflections-on-we-the-people/ The Three Faces: Staying Alive to Your Life and Your Speaking http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/anUczV2o47o/ http://www.realspeaking.com/the-three-faces-staying-alive-to-your-life-and-your-speaking/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:37:19 +0000 Gail http://truthwellspoken.com/?p=336 This month I am experimenting with You Tube and not just writing but also talking to you about the three faces, an African teaching I learned from Angeles Arrien. It is said we stay alive to our lives if each day we express the three faces. The first is the face of the child, the [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/the-three-faces-staying-alive-to-your-life-and-your-speaking/feed/ 0 http://www.realspeaking.com/the-three-faces-staying-alive-to-your-life-and-your-speaking/ Calling All Voices: Four Questions to Reveal the Message Written in Your Soul http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/QHY1BHxlDXw/ http://www.realspeaking.com/calling-all-voices/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:54:15 +0000 joan http://truthwellspoken.com/?p=12 We are entering a time of shocking transformation. Life as we are living it is not sustainable and many are looking for a better story. The story that is pushing to emerge cannot be for the benefit of a few who have–so far– managed to insulate themselves from the harshness and apprehension that so many [...]

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]]> http://www.realspeaking.com/calling-all-voices/feed/ 0 http://www.realspeaking.com/calling-all-voices/ The Transformative Power of Place: See the Change! http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TruthWellSpoken/~3/tJgiypEn7Ic/ http://www.realspeaking.com/the-transformative-power-of-place-see-the-change/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 20:53:17 +0000 Gail http://truthwellspoken.com/?p=354 “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.” – John Muir Once a man I loved wondered why I didn’t want to move into his ratty little house. He felt that love should prevail [...]

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