Personal Newsletter: Coping with Overwhelming News Through a Simple Rating Technique
By
Liz Neeley
Pulled from the oven just right. Trustworthy, fact-dense, deeply satisfying.
Summary
A personal newsletter entry reflecting on a short, difficult week filled with distressing global news (European heat dome, Ebola in Central Africa, Cuba humanitarian crisis, ICE facility conditions). The author shares a facilitation technique learned from a mentor about numerically rating meetings as a coping and processing tool.
Key quotes
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It makes me reach for a facilitation technique I love.
Years ago, as I was venting about a terrible meeting, an important mentor asked me to rate it, numerically.
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