Monday Minute: Gift of Acknowledgement

It is time for your Fearless Monday Minute. As we wrap up 2023, I want to share with you a ritual that we use at Fearless Communicators, not just to complete our programs, but also something that we use to wrap up the year. And it is a ritual that we use called the “Gift of Acknowledgment”. In this exercise, we gather as a community, and we pose the question, “What do you want to be acknowledged for?” Now, the beautiful thing about that question is oftentimes what we do is we offer praise or acknowledgment to people by what we think they want to be acknowledged for. But we don’t create the opportunity for people to actually give voice for what would really matter for them to be acknowledged for in the moment. So as you are gathering with friends and family and colleagues, completing all of your 2023 accomplishments, a beautiful question to ask is, “What do you want to be acknowledged for it?”