“It’s like magic—so clear and simple and transformative.” Mary Mackenzie, author, Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion; Co-founder, NVC Academy; Executive Director, Peace Workshop, International; Certified NVC Trainer; Mediator “Choosing Peace has great potential to transform your life." –Valerie Rose Belanger, Managing Director, Yale World Fellows, Yale University “I hope the whole world reads it.” Larry Rosen, attorney-mediator and founder of Through Understanding What if you could feel calm and in control in the face of conflict? In Choosing Peace, you will learn a new approach to communication and conflict that creates peace, internally and externally. The concrete tools and skills in this book allow you to be clear in your communication and help others do the same. Through practicing what is in this compelling guidebook, you can build more satisfying and engaging relationships and create more compassion and peace in your life. Read Choosing Peace to be able to: • Understand how conflict can be a vehicle to connection • Escape from endless replaying of stressful conversations • Be kinder to yourself • Gain acceptance for others • Stop behaving in ways that do not get you what you want • Learn a new set of skills to navigate sticky conflict situations • Get a new perspective on recurring conflicts—and how to resolve them • Recognize and shift out of fight-flight-freeze stress patterns • Listen skillfully and non-judgmentally • Deepen the quality of interaction with others Written by authors with nearly 40 years combined experience in a Nonviolent Communication approach to mediation and conflict resolution, who have trained thousands of people worldwide to choose peace. About Mediate Your Life John Kinyon and Ike Lasater have been refining their distinct Mediate Your Life approach since 2003. Building on their decades of work with Marshall Rosenberg, founder of Nonviolent Communication, Mediate Your Life provides telecourses and workshops in countries around the world, helping people approach conflict as an opportunity and gain the skills and capacity to create true dialogue and new possibilities for connection. Together and individually they have mediated conflicts with couples, families, businesses, institutions, and legal contexts. Ike Lasater is a former trial attorney who co-founded a thriving San Francisco law firm. John Kinyon has a background in psychology and is a certified trainer with the international Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).

Choosing Peace: New Ways to Communicate to Reduce Stress, Create Connection, and Resolve Conflict (Mediate Your Life: A Guide to Removing Barriers to Communication)

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Kinyon, John

Lasater, Ike

Management & Leadership

Mediate Your Life

The Mediate Your Life immersion training program supports people in mediating conflict between warring parts of themselves, between self and others, and between others. In three workshops spread over ten months, participants learn to: 
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<li>Bring more confidence and ease to dealing with conflict in their lives </li>
<li>Use the Mediate Your Life skills to effectively resolve conflict, heal relationships, and contribute to their own and others well-being </li>
<li>Help others who are in conflict </li>
</ul> The Mediate Your Life Training Manual accompanies the immersion program and includes all of the maps and skills covered in the workshops. Table of Contents: 
 Introduction A Mediate Your Life Approach To Mediating Conflict Mediating Conflict Conversations Between Others Temporal Contexts Of Mediation Other Maps Of The Integral Grid Professional Development Practicing Toward Your Goals Resources Appendix

Mediate Your Life Training Manual 5th edition

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Everyone experiences conflict, and if you’re like most people, it is typically a source of stress or even strife, within relationships. But what if you could have difficult conversations with ease and create agreements that actually work? With 40 years of combined experience in a Nonviolent Communication approach to mediation and conflict resolution, the authors of From Conflict to Connection offer a step-by-step guide to being in a relationship with yourself and others that generates new possibilities out of discord and disagreements. The book’s concrete, practical tools and maps for all stages of interpersonal communication, as well as real-life examples, will help you to: • understand how people get into conflict … and how to get out • develop the ability to be centered regardless of what’s happening around you • respond the way you’d like when you are upset and triggered • reshape negative judgments of yourself and others • navigate a difficult conversation so you both feel empowered and satisfied with the outcome If you’re ready to escape the power struggle of relationships, be able to hear the other person and express what you’d like to say, and find solutions that work for everyone, From Conflict to Connection provides a new way forward that has transformed the lives of thousands of people worldwide.

From Conflict to Connection: Transforming Difficult Conversations into Peaceful Resolutions (Mediate Your Life: A Guide to Removing Barriers to Communication)

Self-Help

Stiles, Julie

Relationships

Interpersonal conflict is a fact of life. Whether you are directly in conflict with a family member or colleague, or simply experience sticky situations with others, being able to have difficult conversations in a satisfying manner can greatly improve your relationships and well-being. Learn concrete and practical tools and exercises for all stages of interpersonal communication that will help you stay connected to yourself, be able to hear the other person and express your own needs, and find resolutions that everyone is happy with. Based on the work of Mediate Your Life, From Conflict to Connection is written by authors with nearly forty years combined experience in a Nonviolent Communication approach to mediation and conflict resolution, and have trained thousands of people worldwide.

From Conflict to Connection: Transforming Difficult Conversations into Peaceful Resolutions (Guide to Removing Barriers to Communication)

Mediate Your Life, LLC

El programa de entrenamiento de inmersión de Media Tu Vida apoya a gente a mediar el conflicto entre partes de sí mismos en guerra, entre sí mismo y otros, y entre los otros. En tres talleres repartidos en 10 meses, los participantes aprenden a: • Traer más confianza y facilidad para tratar con el conflicto en sus vidas, • Usar las habilidades de Media Tu Vida para resolver el conflicto efectivamente, sanar relaciones, y contribuir al bienestar de sí mismo y de otros, y • Ayudar a otros quienes están en conflicto Este Manual de Entrenamiento de Media Tu Vida fue diseñado para acompañar al programa de inmersión e incluye todos los mapas y habilidades estudiados en los talleres.

Media Tu Vida: Manual de Entrenamiento (Spanish Edition)

Personal Transformation

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Addressing the most common workplace relationship challenges, this manual shows how to use the principles of Nonviolent Communication to improve the workplace atmosphere. Offering practical tools that match recognizable work scenarios, this guide can help all employees positively affect their work relationships and company culture, regardless of their position. This handbook displays proven communication skills for effectively handling difficult conversations, reducing workplace conflict and stress, improving individual and team productivity, having more effective meetings, and giving and receiving meaningful feedback, thereby creating a more enjoyable work environment.

Words That Work In Business: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication in the Workplace (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

PuddleDancer Press

Addressing the most common workplace relationship challenges, this manual shows how to use the principles of nonviolent communication to improve any workplace atmosphere. Offering practical tools that match recognizable work scenarios, this guide can help all employees positively affect their work relationships and company culture, regardless of their position. This handbook displays proven communication skills for effectively handling difficult conversations, reducing workplace conflict and stress, improving individual and team productivity, having more effective meetings, and giving and receiving meaningful feedback, thereby creating a more enjoyable work environment.

Words That Work in Business, 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication in the Workplace

Business Culture

Collaborating in the Workplace arms readers with tips to help teams collaborate and create more powerful outcomes. Focusing on the key skills necessary for effective collaboration, along with practical exercises to help improve these skills, the goal of this informative volume is to encourage the creation of connections that lead to powerful communication and better results. The authors cover such topics as: how stress impacts daily interactions; ways of listening that create a deeper understanding and connection with others; preparing for, practicing, and learning from difficult conversations; tricky workplace communication issues that tend to trip people up, such as interrupting, giving feedback, and being clear about requests. With step-by-step exercises and guidelines for practice, readers can learn the skills necessary to make any team work better together.

Collaborating in the Workplace: A Guide for Building Better Teams

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