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

June 20, 2022 • Linda Stacy • Season 1 • Episode 8

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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