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b'What do your opinions have to do with spirituality?\\xa0 Turns out when we enter a conversation only looking to share what we know, we miss out on the mystical potential that comes from opening up to what we do not know in dialogue.\\xa0 An editor of Evolve Magazine in Germany and Cultural Anthropologist, Dr. Nadja Rosmann shares how connection and dialogue liberate the human spirit into possibility.\\n\\xa0\\nBiography:\\nDr.\\xa0Nadja Rosmann has been a member of the\\xa0evolve\\xa0editorial team since October 2014.\\xa0Nadja is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on identity research.\\xa0She works as a journalist, communication consultant and scientific project manager primarily on topics from the fields of business and spirituality and operates the think.work.different weblog.\\nQuotes Worth Sharing:\\nPerformance culture has a destructive impact on humans.\\nWhen people feel isolated, they feel like they have to fight for themselves to survive.\\nConnection is the aliveness in any living organism.\\xa0 You wouldn\\u2019t ask a tree why he is standing there and growing just like you wouldn\\u2019t ask why it is important for people to connect.\\n\\xa0\\nShow Notes:\\nThere are so many systemic structures in our work organizations to improve individual performance but not to connect people inside those organizations.\\xa0 Companies want more productivity but the systems they create to produce more create also more isolation.\\xa0 But more isolation creates less productivity.\\xa0\\nThe real solution is we must change the structures within which we live and work.\\xa0\\nConnection is a sphere you shouldn\\u2019t try to observe from just functionality.\\xa0 Connection is aliveness like in nature or any living organism.\\xa0 You would ask a tree why he is standing there and growing just like you wouldn\\u2019t ask why it is important for people to connect.\\nThe entry points to cultural change and human well being might be different than what we used to think.\\xa0 And this is also a very spiritual perspective.\\xa0\\xa0 You have to trust in something greater than just what is functional.\\xa0 We simply have to explore, experiment, and experience it.\\nAt the same time, the process of connecting doesn\\u2019t leave behind thinking, it just puts it into a different context.\\xa0 Opening oneself up, being more transparent, makes us more aware of our human fragility.\\xa0 If you can see in one other person\\u2019s eyes the same fragility you sometimes suffer from you connect on a completely different level and then realize that we are all connected.\\nWe all are hiding, in a way, with fake smiles or stoic distance because we are still looking for better ways to connect but we don\\u2019t know how.\\nSharing our fragility really needs time because we are just at the beginning of how to learn this.\\xa0\\nEvolve Salons creates a space where you don\\u2019t have to get too personal.\\xa0 Getting too personal is not our main interest.\\xa0 Sometimes if we are getting too personal we expect something back.\\xa0 But our focus in on just opening up in the dialogue, not getting a response back.\\xa0 And we have to be aware of how profound this is \\u2013 a real cultural shift - because there really are no places to have an experience like this.\\xa0 And you can\\u2019t really know it but let it come in through the back door through experiencing it.\\xa0\\nYou kind of have to trust that between human beings there is an unknown potential and trust \\u2013 trust and try.\\nNo one is doing anything in the dialogues we structure for Evolve Magazine. We are only holders of the space.\\xa0 We are just helping others feel and become aware of the space they are inhabiting and the potential and resonance between two people.\\nWhat creates more opening in dialogue?\\nBeing interested in what you don\\u2019t know yet. Often we think our contribution to any dialogue is to contribute what we know.\\xa0 But it limits us to what we already know.\\xa0\\nListen to what and how people are speaking but also very present for the potential in the space between you and I. We have to allow for the landing of our words but the unfolding of our connection.\\xa0 I cannot worry about where th'