At its heart, VIEW is a checklist for treating ourselves and others with respect and care. It is for those of us who are smart, who love order and structure and strategies.

To have conversations “in VIEW” means to have them in a state of vulnerability, impartiality, empathy, and wonder. It is a state that you can train yourself to recognize, and train yourself to drop into anytime. It’s always a choice to do so. But if you do, it is like an alternate reality where the impossible becomes possible.

You find yourself able to express things you never thought you could. The care you have for others comes right to the surface and becomes so tangible you can almost touch it. You are freed up to speak hard truths and gentle affections alike, which somehow frees the other person to do the same.