The “One Difficult Moment” Exercise
This week, you are invited to choose one single conversation from your real life — nothing dramatic, just a moment where you felt a slight discomfort:
- a bit of tension
- a moment of impatience
- mild confusion
- emotional distance
- a small internal “hmm…”
No need to change anything in the moment.Your only task is to reflect afterward, using the four advanced skills we explored in class.
Take a few minutes and explore these four questions:
1. Authenticity
What truth about myself or the moment could I have named that might have brought clarity or grounding?(Without rescuing, correcting, or centering myself.)
2. Immediacy
At what moment did I leave the present? When did I go into analysis, memory, projection, or story? What would have brought me back into “here and now”?
3. Specificity
Where did the conversation stay vague?Is there a single clarifying question that could have helped us get closer to what was actually happening?
4. Confrontation
Did I notice two things the person said that didn’t fully fit together? If yes: What held me back from naming it gently and factually?
That’s it. One moment. Four lenses.
This exercise is not about doing better. It’s about becoming aware of the subtle places where your presence opens… or closes, so you can grow your capacity to receive others with depth and clarity.
And when you have experimented with this… you can come back and share with the group what you have discovered!