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People who prefer walking to talking through a hard conversation aren’t avoiding eye contact, side-by-side movement lowers the sense of confrontation enough that things which cannot be said across a table can often be said along a footpath
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What it actually seems to do is take the confrontation out of the conversation without taking the conversation out of it.
What seems to work, in its account, is a small structural change to how conversations happen day to day.
Some of those conversations never happen because the imagined venue is impossible: a table, a moment of eye contact, a silence too heavy to break.
It is also not the case that every difficult conversation improves outdoors.
The walking conversation belongs to that same category.