Communication Skills
Beyond Mandatory Autonomy: Truth Without Abandonment
Honesty and hope aren’t opposing forces. They are a matched set: hope for the best and prepare for the worst—paired with an explicit promise of nonabandonment.
Communication Skills
They can be learned!
Communication Skills
Teams, Not Saviors: Protecting Each Other from Compassion’s Edge States
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
Death, Creativity, and Compassion: What Are We Really Training For?
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
What Kyle Learned Recently
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.