Narrative Humility

Thaler Pekar describes the courage behind Narrative Humility, and why asking for stories yields great insight. This is an excerpt from a breakfast program she delivered at DHR communications and public affairs in Dublin, Ireland. youtube (1m8s)

I like to call this a narrative humility it's this idea that you're going to sit back and say I don't know your story I'm going I'm not going to assume your story is the same as mine I'm going to ask you for yours and the shift there is from assumption to emergence and you start to learn a lot more it takes some courage to do this it's very hard you know when you sit back and you say hey I'm willing to hear anything things can get chaotic you're gonna hear things that you never heard before and I think that when we're all really busy sometimes it's really nice to ask questions that are going to confirm the answers that we want to hear that's certainly true but we also know that down the line that can get us in trouble we want appear in the same thing over and over we inure ourselves to actually hearing what the real truths are and we don't hear all voices so being able to have that courage to shut up and listen as well as to stand and speak out what we normally think of as courage is incredibly important