Griever

So, ignoring the ludicrous and hurtful overtones of 'professional griever', I've been thinking about what it could look like if we went into our professional scenarios fully aware of each individual's wounds and scars. Would it change our conversations, reactions, and verbiage with the donors we serve? If you're a professional advisor, I wonder if you'd avoid saying certain terms or steer-clear of small talk altogether if you knew ahead of time that the mention of baseball is a potential grief-trigger?

Basically, I am wondering if our conversations with donors would be richer if we each wore our pain-points on our sleeves... or if we'd avoid fullstop. I think society has a gut reaction to ostrich - we'd really put our head in the sand than deal with anything unpleasant. But if we went into our professional meetings already knowing what the potential hot spots were, I wonder if it could make our conversations more meaningful. Perhaps we'd all be a bit kinder, a bit more gentle with each other if we could wear our grief like a badge. "Today I am grieving... please go easy".