E8: Relational Therapy - for WORK. How healthy relational "practices" can help work relationships

Work Dope is a podcast on the messiness, and the potential, of humans, at work. In this episode I speak with relational life experts and therapists, Kristy Gaisford and Jerry Sander who host the podcast, LoveWork - skills for relational life.  (You can also find Jerry at Kristy at https://loveworkrelationships.com/.) The therapy Jerry and Kristy practice holds one of the same tenets as Work Dope - that relationships, (and specifically, the strife they bring), hold the greatest potential for human growth. I was eager to speak with Jerry and Kristy about what we can learn from couples’ therapy “best practices” and apply to the world of work.

We talk about:

• What is means, essentially, to be valued as a human
• How getting curious is the best elixir for any move towards growth
• Advice for folks who struggle to really listen
• What happens when humans try to control people
• How to really set the tone in an environment
• What self esteem is and how low self esteem is likely the number one contributor to relational problems
• And so, so much more…

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