Imagine if every week we conversed about one question, exploring, contemplating, listening, sharing, pausing and, most of all, enjoying each other’s perspectives.The rewards of asking an intentional question every week would be huge.Sometimes we just want to ask questions so that we can understand what’s going on in a friend or loved one’s life! Ask them…and then whole heartedly listen to the answers.

As we discussed last week, our conversation is the relationship (thank you, poet, author, speaker, David Whyte). Let’s deepen our conversations this year. It’s time to start new conversations or change the ones that lag behind or feel untrue or “stuck”.

Why? Conversation connects us to ourselves and one another. If we bring our best selves to a dialog and stay open to new ideas, conversation makes us feel part of a bigger whole. We all need to belong, don’t we?

Answering questions requires a willingness to move out of a comfortable place. To create forward movement requires listening attentively (no cell phones allowed), even when we don’t like what’s being said and want to blurt out our own perspective.

“2017 Confabs”, aka,a Year of Conversation in 2017, infers tolerance concurrent with optimism, fairness, and kindness.  It’s so much better to have more questions than answers.  

Join in! Please send me your topics, themes, and questions to my website or email, atableintime@gmail.com. Picture forty-eight questions that help us make huge strides in all of our relationships.

Question #1: What should we talk about this year? Consider the relationships that you want to build and what type of inquiry might help do that.  I’ll post answers on A Table In Time Facebook page next week. Join in here. Thank you for your input.