Q&A – There is Always More to the Story

“Don’t we all prepare a mask for whom we prepare to meet?”

All too often we only get to see our clients on a very surface level and only as much as they are prepared to allow us to see. It takes a connection, a level of safety and a great deal of trust to open up and reveal our true selves. But this is what we are often asking our clients to do every day. In this video Kim Dolan of PARN talks about her perspective on the masks that we all wear.

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October 20, 2015

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