by Tom Esch | Apr 3, 2018 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
This is not about guns. I do not know enough about guns to be an activist about guns. I do know about communication. It is about people speaking up respectfully and effectively when something is awry. This is my business. This is info about a confidential app to...
by Tom Esch | Dec 19, 2017 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
This is a tough article for me to write. I’ve been putting it off for a while and cannot put it off any longer. I’m nervous because I feel this is mostly a time for us men to listen. And I’m nervous that whatever I say here may be met by some with criticism. But...
by Tom Esch | Aug 16, 2017 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
So many painful things happening these days. It is hard to track them all, let alone have any feelings about them. A woman is shot accidentally by a Minneapolis cop. Justine Damond was her name and I knew her. Truly a bright light, a teacher and healer. Now gone....
by Tom Esch | May 11, 2017 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
The whole world knows by now: our President has fired James Comey, the head of the FBI. This was surprising news to almost everyone. It is unsettling. Kind of like the way the election happened: unexpected and dramatic. Regardless of how you voted, when unexpected...
by Tom Esch | Nov 10, 2016 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
Well some of us here in the USA woke up jubilant and some woke up depressed recently. Shock, anger, disappointment and fear on one side. Joy, happiness and excitement on the other. This election process was so polarized, so split on values and so full of the...
by Tom Esch | Oct 20, 2016 | How to Handle Polarizing Topics and Challenging People, Blog
This last Presidential debate made me think of an article recently written by author and speaker Charles Eisenstein. In “The Lid is Off” he talks about how it is getting harder to keep a secret these days. He refers to Trumps “locker room” comments,...
