Collecting stories has been my thing for years. Especially the ones about caterpillars. Ever heard the one about the caterpillar and the butterfly? So, imagine this: On a bright sunny day, two caterpillars are crawling in a meadow. They look up and see a butterfly flying high above them. It’s up so high that it makes their heads spin. At that moment..

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Empathy is a fascinating discipline. We often believe we understand it, thinking it’s straightforward and we do it quite well. We put ourselves in other persons’ shoes and offer them support. But what if there is more to it? What if sometimes our “empathy” is the opposite of support?

I delivered in-person assertiveness training in various countries and cultures: Spain, France, Romania, Czech, Germany and China, and more online. There are many differences, but at the end of the day, one lesson was more important than anything else.

We all have a dream. Mine has been scuba diving since I was a little girl. About 20 years ago, I revisited that dream. I got my license and started diving in seas and oceans around the world. And it was beyond anything I could have imagined. Until..

Do we really have to choose between power and kindness? What if we could have both? Some call this assertiveness. Some call it radical candor. I come across this wish in my work very often.
I call this “the place where the magic happens