Effective Communication — A Reminder

As this current Global Pandemic chapter continues to stretch out, the conversations around us ebb and morph. We are all being challenged on deeply personal levels to form opinions that affect our here and now as well as our future, at the same time as trying to keep a handle on the operation of our daily lives.

The load on all of us is high, and we’re all dealing with it in different ways. Consequently, we’re all displaying different “symptoms” of humanness. Our mandate remains the same though — look inward and manage self; look outward, observe and be a good human. Breathe.

I was privileged to listen to a Zoom presentation this week entitled “The Long Slow Burn of Covid — Anxiety vs Fear and Children’s Emotions”. It addressed the 6 phases of the Crisis Cycle (Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression, Acceptance, and Resolution) and how we’re all cycling through them over this seemingly endless period of uncertainty. Whilst the presentation focused on how this is affecting children of different ages and how their reactions may vary depending on which phase of the cycle they’re currently in, the same is true for all of us. We are all juggling our daily lives because we must move forward, but we are all displaying some kind of response to the uncertainty of this chapter.