They can be learned!
Communication Skills
Every team thinks they’re compassionate. Fewer can name the cliffs embedded in compassion—and fewer still can stop one another from going over the edge in the middle of a messy consult.
Changing the World
In specialist palliative care, we talk about “compassion training” as if it’s a discrete skill you can add to a checklist. Joan Halifax’s enactive model challenges that notion: compassion isn’t a module; it emerges when attentional clarity, affective balance, ethical intention, and embodied engagement cohere in context.
Communication Skills
From time-to-time, I will publish articles that have recently crossed my path with my analysis of what they tell us. This will be the first in that series.