TJ Bennett (@teejaybee6) interviewed his fellow @prohuman_org advisor, @shakamitchell, about the Come Together Music Project. The project shows how music has the unique power facilitate the emotional depth needed for genuine connection, even at work.
"There’s a safety in using music to express something, because it gives you a little bit of distance—like, just the right amount of distance….
One of the guys… asked him from the stage, ‘What’s the song you picked?’ and he picked a song by a band called Everclear called Father of Mine. And said, ‘Well, why’d you pick that?’
And he said it’s the song that took him back to when his father died. Well, you do not go out to an event space on a Thursday night and expect to tell a bunch of strangers information like that.…
But I think that the music really facilitates the conversation…. I followed up with him after and I said, ‘Hey, I really hope I didn’t put you on the spot. I didn’t mean to do that.’ And he said, ‘No.’
He said, ‘This to me is proof of concept. This works.’"
@mtaibbi It was pretty easy to get on the mail in ballots only list though. We did that right away when we moved to CAin 2012. Never went to a polling place in 8 years.