Belonging in the Author's tribe
Aga Sieradzka - Experience Belonging
Belonging@Work works. I craft unique, social science-based roadmaps for leaders and teams to reach "I.Belong.Here" state. We overcome loneliness together. ** Experience Human Connection ** World of Belonging**
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Last Friday, participating in the opening event of #LiteratureBasel (the #LiteraturFestival) reminded me of the power that book ?????? reading has on our lives (or at least it has on mine).
Reading, learning, is about staying in the safe zone - no one can be a threat.
It feels even safer when writing - the power of generosity of sharing with others.
Feeling heard.
We all want to feel we belong.
The force of belonging is so powerful.
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Authors experience challenges of reaching to a larger audience – to get that sensation that that their voice matters.
At nearly all times, authors are exposed and feel the vulnerability of sharing own thoughts, the insecurity of if, and doubts on how they would be accepted.
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Every sign of #acceptance and #belonging into the aspirational tribe (of authors) matters. Like, that one personal reflection from a Friend: ?
Eduardo dos Santos Silva 's own and unique definition of #belonging. (Learning a new ABC)
Belonging is a contextual feeling, something I can experience right now in my life as part of a group but not as part of another; it means, when I feel it, that I am part of something bigger than myself, that yes I feel included but much more than that, that I feel useful, I feel that I am contributing and feel that it does make a positive difference that I exist in such a context. While it is something that I can trigger, I can initiate it, it will hardly survive if the environment is not welcoming to me, if I feel constantly pushed back (which is different from being challenged), and if I feel that I am ignored for reasons other than the quality of my contributions.
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Belonging in the Authors' tribe.
The feeling of empowerment that you can change the minds and hearts of the readers. One person at the time.
Belonging into the aspirational tribe
Belonging – feeling accepted - feeling welcome – feeling seen (validated as a human).
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Writing this post, has reminded me the saying of Ellie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor:
“Opposite of love is not hate - it is indifference”.
The biologies of strong love and hate are similar.
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Are you looking for a genuine gift ?????? to someone you want to feel seen?
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#belongingmatters
#belongingforce
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23 小时前At a time that people are feeling more disconnected, this book has been such a great comfort and reference to what it means to truly belong. You've managed to both challenge and expand the ways in which we talk about and understand belonging and using our own agency to access this experience for ourselves. Thank you for all the work you've done on such an important topic at a time when this is so needed.
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3 天前I support that idea and actually already recommended it to some friends. Books are an excellent gift, even more in the professional setup, as I remember being gifted with books by Ralph Haefeli and Murat Kutu
Stop your readers getting distracted by wordy niggles?Business books?Fiction?The enthusiasm is palpable
1 周Fascinating article, Aga! I love how you've explored the word 'belonging' to see the different ways it can relate to authors, and how authors are shown as 'aspitrational' ??
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1 周Gef?llt mir sehr gut
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