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Commitment

Trainer Tip Recovery is about more than walking away. Sometimes it means learning to stay and deal. It’s about building and maintaining relationships that work. —Melody Beattie Do you ever give up on disagreements by walking away, either temporarily or permanently? Do you ever simply not engage in a conflict because you’re certain the situation cannot be resolved? Sometimes, taking a break from...
The True Role of a Mediator

Yoram Mosenzon shares that the role of a mediator is often misconceived as solving conflicts, which can create stress and exacerbate the conflict. Instead, the true essence of mediation is about remaining untriggered, understanding the pain of the conflicting parties, and facilitating communication. Conflict is defined as two people experiencing pain simultaneously. The mediator's job is not to...
How to Ask for Space

Do you ever wish you could get a little more breathing room in an intimate relationship? From your perspective, they move in so close that you wish you had a snorkel so you could get a little air. The other person, on the other hand, is feeling hurt wanting more intimacy and is receiving your request for space as a form of rejection or lack of caring. You notice this conflict repeating itself...
Focusing on Where We Are the Same

Trainer Tip Show love to all creatures and you will be happy . . . —Tulsidas In Compassionate Communication, we believe that everyone has the same needs, no matter how they strive to meet them. Can you imagine what needs the terrorists were trying to meet when they flew airplanes into the World Trade Center in 2001? To some, it seems unfathomable that they were meeting needs. But think about...
The Power of Silent Empathy

When I first learned about the concept of silent empathy during a workshop with Marshall Rosenberg many years ago, I didn't know how soon I'd have the opportunity to try it out. I was visiting my daughter for four days and even though it seemed to be going well, I must have been acting in my old mother role, making comments about her life, analyzing her behavior, giving her my unsolicited view...
Parenting and Anger

Access this complete 5 session course Combine mediating conflict, parenting skills and study of brain science in this ground-breaking course recording on how to funnel your anger and your child’s anger toward mutual caring and peace in your family. If you ’are tired of exploding, stuffing your anger, or living in endless hopelessness, take this course to learn practical tips for using anger to...
Healing and Reconciliation

Access this complete 7 session course Witness facilitating conflict between individuals and members of a group, where you’ll learn four immensely helpful and practical processes. These have been designed to dramatically augment your ability to respond effectively to and facilitate difficult situations – enabling you, the mediator, to ease suffering and create peaceful, fair solutions you can...
Radical Understanding In A Post-Truth World

The Coronavirus pandemic is bringing to light aspects of society that were already increasingly showing signs of dysfunction and unhealth but now are more visible. One of these is how we as a society relate to truth. Through the marvel of the internet we have access to virtually unlimited amounts of information and opinions presented from a myriad of sources. There are those of us who believe...
Create a Simple Restorative Agreement For Your Group

Conflict is normal and natural and yet we are still often surprised by it and unprepared to deal with it. You will come away from this session with the tools for creating simple agreements with your group about what to do when conflict arises. Keywords: Jo McHale Ceri Buckmaster Sarah Ludford restorative justice restorative Justice agreements conflict resolution conflict peace groups group...
How To Stop Arguing

Transform arguments with these steps: take responsibility for your mind, increase your capacity for discomfort, slow down, show up and remember your values, offer understanding, take risks, and speak from your heart. Learning new skills takes time, energy and effort. However, it’s entirely possible to radically shift the way we communicate. The key is patience, persistence, and taking it one...