Silence, the Forgotten Human Skill | Jitske Kramer | TEDxWassenaar

I am on a quest. As an anthropologist I want to unravel how I, how we, can be human together with the people we love, but also with the ones we don’t like that much… I travel the world, to understand how people shape cultures, and how cultures shape people. To find ways how we can be human together, in a constructive and peaceful way.
In this talk I want to focus on the role and importance of: silence. Sometimes I feel that silence is like a forgotten human skill. Talk rules over listening. Knowing rules over not knowing. Sound rules over silence. But if we leave silence out of our mix of behavior, levels of trust, creativity and energy go down. We need silence just as much as we need sound. It’s the combination that makes the music.
During my travels I learned a lot about different ways to treat silence.
Today I will share with you my most important lessons I learned in India, Togo and the UK. But first, let me tell you about the start of my personal journey to appreciate silence.
Jitske Kramer is a corporate anthropologist who travels the world to learn from traditional healers, leaders, surprising innovators and random passers-by.

In 2012 Jitske put Deep Democracy in the Netherlands on the map and offers, together with a team of instructors, many workshops in this field. She is always looking for ways to build strong tribes and strengthen mutual relationships. She brings this knowledge to the world of organizing, colaborating and leadership through strong lectures and masterclasses. To improve the power of success and results of individuals and groups (and just to make the world a better place). She trains people so we no longer have the need for meetings. She has the ambition to push organisations to be attractive to everything and everyone. She will take you with her in stories that create space for new ways of observing and acting. Along the way what is familiar becomes strange. What is strange becomes familiar. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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