The authors of the "New York Times" bestseller "Crucial Conversations" show you how to achieve personal, team, and organizational success by healing broken promises, resolving violated expectations, and influencing bad behaviour. You can discover skills to resolve touchy, controversial, and complex issues at work and at home now available in this ...
Written for courses such as Communication and Conflict, Interpersonal Conflict, Conflict Management, Conflict and Negotiation, and Conflict in Personal Relationships, this textbook examines the central principles of effective conflict management in a wide variety of contexts - from romantic relationships to the workplace. Its combination of up-to ...
Discussing trust, anger, change, prejudice, blame, guilt, loyalty and conscience, the author describes a life-style for Christians who care enough to risk confronting others when differences become important. Especially for Christians who care deeply about relationships--adults, youth, pastors, couples.
Covering the whole range of conflict settings-interpersonal, group, and organizational-Working Through Conflict, Fourth Edition, provides an introduction to conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory and research. Encompassing a broad spectrum of theoretical perspectives, the text includes an abundance of real life case studies ...
Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy (CIT) is a radically different method for developing more loving and satisfying relationships. In his latest work, Dr. Burns shows how to resolve virtually any kind of relationship conflict almost instantly by utilizing this method.
This work presents a New Age stress-reduction strategy - Aiki. Based on Aikido, a Japanese martial art and mind-body discipline, the programme aids in relieving stress with a set of simple techniques. They include meditation, breathing exercises, and a focus on play, providing an antidote to the intense personal and professional pressures of ...
Bring a fresh approach to the bargaining table Tap the transformative potential of mediation and discover the full promise of the mediation process. In this insightful work, the authors present an alternative theoretical framework that affords a deeper understanding of conflict and mediation ---- one based on respect for personal strength and ...
This empowering guide goes beyond observable techniques to offer a close look at the creative internal processes--both cognitive and psychological--that successful mediators and other conflict resolvers draw upon.
Offering essential tools and strategies for conflict management,The Conflict Survival Kit: Tools for Resolving Conflict at Work is designed for those who need instant skill building and practical methods for handling organizational and personal conflicts. It provides a firm grounding in basic interpersonal communication and management skills--such ...
With a strong theoretical and research base, Managing Conflict Through Communication provides the most complete coverage of the study of conflict available on the market. Each chapter builds on the previous to help the reader better understand and deal effectively with conflict. The extensive use of narratives and case studies make the material ...
The potential for conflict exists in every interaction. But when one doesn't know how to deal with these disagreements constructively, they can escalate into unproductive and even destructive situations. The key is not to avoid conflict, but to recognize and manage it skillfully to produce the best possible outcome. In this powerful and practical ...
For more than 20 years Marc Gopin has sought to resolve bitter disputes in a variety of domestic and international settings. What he has learned - working for peace in sticky world trouble spots such as the Middle East and Northern Ireland - is that some conflicts, rooted in the deepest, most primal emotions, cannot be solved by "rational" ...
This work offers dialogues between the spiritual leader, Krishnamurti, and physicist, David Bohm. They discuss such issues as why humanity has made thought so important, cleansing the mind of "accumulation of time", breaking the pattern of ego-centred activity and the wrong turn humanity has taken.
"The Age of Orphans" tells the heart-wrenching story of a Kurdish boy who is forced to betray his people in service of the new Iranian nation, and the tragic consequences as he grows into manhood.
In a close-up study of the mother-daughter bond, a Jungian psychotherapist examines the impact of the relationship on a woman's ego identity, her sense of security, and her feelings about herself and her body.
The award-winning first edition of "The Promise of Mediation", published ten years ago, is a landmark classic that changed the field's understanding of the theory and practice of conflict intervention. That volume first articulated the 'transformative model' of mediation, which greatly humanized the vision of how the mediation process could help ...
Using the model of the owl as an ideal, this book offers suggestions on operating effectively and with integrity in life. The metaphor and strategy of the owl shows readers how to find a balance between passivity and aggression, to perform well in conflict situations.
"Laplanche's work is much more accessible than Jacques Lacan's; is it too much to hope that his brilliant work will help to reconcile American intellectuals to rigorous speculative thought?"?Leo Bersani, Partisan Review.
The author of Toxic Psychiatry details the common principles of conflict resolution on every level from self-help, psychotherapy, and family therapy through societal and international conflict. Along the way, Breggin discloses the impact and origins of guilt and anxiety and reveals how love can satisfy needs and resolve conflicts.
Expanding the Weinhold's developmental approach to recovery from relationship addictions, this book uncovers the hidden flip side to co-dependency as the primary force that blocks intimacy in relationships.
This set of simple techniques, including meditation, breathing exercises, openness, and play--Aiki--leads gently to a reordered state of mind. From overcoming apathy to understanding how conflict doesn't have to mean contest, Aiki turns mind-body integration principles into powerful tools.
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