Welcome to the Free School community for building meaningful relationships.
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The Core Problem
Understanding the core problem: unintentional diminishment in conversations.
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Unconscious Diminishment
How unconscious diminishment creates distance and disconnection.
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The Free Community Framework
The Free School framework for identifying and changing patterns.
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Join the Community
Join the community to learn, grow, and connect.
Transcript
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Welcome to the Free School community where I show you how to build meaningful and lasting relationships.
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If you want a relationship that truly matters with your partner, your child, your friend, your coworker, this is for you.
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This is a place where people genuinely value relationships.
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For people who are trying, trying to understand why they are not being heard, trying to understand how to connect, trying to understand how to get someone to open up, trying to understand why there's tension even though the intentions are good.
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My name is Simon.
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I've spent decades studying human behavior in high-pressure environments, and I've seen something across a very broad spectrum, from families and relationships to couples in relationships to those experiencing significant trauma to even the corporate boardroom.
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And I've observed something that is rarely talked about, but it happens everywhere, across all types of relationships, across all types of intent, across all types of levels of intelligence.
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And personalities, professions.
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It happens in all human connections and interactions in everyday life.
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Everybody does this, and it's the primary reason that we disconnect.
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The challenge is this: we unintentionally diminish people.
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Think about that for a minute.
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In your last conversation, did you wake up intentionally wanting to diminish someone?
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Did you go into that conversation planning on hurting someone?
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Did you consciously plan on making them feel small?
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Of course not.
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But it's very possible even likely that you did.
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Not because you're malicious, not because you're careless, but because we all diminish people that we truly care about without even realizing it.
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We interrupt, we correct, we defend, we dismiss, we fill in the gaps, we solve too quickly.
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And we react.
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And every single one of those moments creates distance.
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This unconscious diminishment is what causes human disconnection.
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It's not because of lack of love, not lack of intelligence, and not lack of effort.
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It's unawareness.
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The free community that I've built is structured with a framework that helps you identify this pattern in you without blame, without shame, just clarity.
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Because once you see how you are unintentionally creating distance, you can choose different— this is a space to reflect.
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It is a space to grow.
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A space to connect with like-minded people who want to learn how to build lasting and meaningful relationships.
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Not perfect, better.
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If you value relationships, if you want to stop reacting and start connecting, if you want to understand what is really happening beneath the tension, then this community is for you.