I saw a post advertising a class on Front Porch Forum and I hate it. I love FPF, but this post was astonishing.

_{Facilitation Training Course}

_{Belonging Together is a communication and facilitation training course for space hodlers being offered by Plainfield culture building business, EmpowR Transformation.}

_{This 6-week course is offered on Thursday from 1-3pm beginning March 7th.}

_{This course will support you to:}

_{~Build skills for relationship centered and emergent meeting planning.}

_{~Create Spacious flow in conversations to support trust building.}

_{~Deepen Awareness and clarity with cultural responsive language.}

_{~Develop a practice o working with embodiment practice in facilitation.}

_{~Navigate how to manage conflict resolution, repair, and restorative practices.}

_{~Practice trauma-informed and communal care facilitation techniques together.}

_{~Recognize shadow projections and engage multiple intelligences to support your experience.} 

Shakespeare invented hundreds of words; like eyeball, or lonely, or addition, or swagger and undress. These are all words that I could worm my way into synonyms for, I guess, but they’re important and they changed the way people think.

The Facilitation Training Course (FTC) above also invents words, or at least invents new uses for words that I thought I understand but apparently don’t? 

I read this post and I feel embarassed that it exists and I feel deep concern for people who find it attractive or even think they understand it. It is some serious word-salad type bullshit and it makes me angrier the longer I look at it. It feels like common sense aphorism was fed into an AI trained on quinoa, then back and forth several times. 
Let’s try that, except into Chinese.

Create spacious flow in conversatiosn to support trust building.

Create broad topics in the conversation to support building trust.
Make big talk to make friends.

Talk big to make buddies
Say lots of stuff to make friends feel good.
Say many words to make friends feel good.
Say many many words to make friends feel very very good.

Does that just mean not talking over people? Giving room for responses? Not being an overbearing asshole? Do we need new language to say don’t be a jerk in conversation and listen to people?

Like, is that the thing keeping people from being empathetic? They hadn’t read a sentence that made sense to them and now that this has come out people out there drinking Monster and interrupting their girlfriend’s will suddenly realize that that is a bad thing to do and that they should allow for spacious flow?

It’s insane.

Here’s a quote from John Ruskin:

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”

I am an idiot. I don’t understand what that means. Toil? Is that like work?
Let’s try this on for size:

“laboring is a system of manifestation that materializes not in profit, but in experiential beauty and a-temporal parallax understanding.”

Man, shut up.
Read some Mark Twain, or some Stephen King, or shit, how about some Shakespeare?