So far I have felt very distant from rhetoric: rhetoric is form, concerned with external effect, a means to the end of communication, isn't it? Before I think about form, don't I have to create content first? Before I can communicate to the point, don't I first have to create clarity within myself? No, that's the fallacy. Rhetoric is not limited to external impact, "la cerise sur le gâteau." It is a path to inner growth. For am I not my first listener, my most important interlocutor?
This is what Lorenz and Carolina really accomplish, filling one's toolbox with tools for communicating , talking and thinking. Above all, they create space to try them out.
A big thank you to the Rhetorik-Akademie Tübingen, I feel inspired to transform and ready for change.
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