Books
Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen From the Heart
Diane Musho Hamilton
Gabriel Menegale Wilson
Kimberly Myosai Loh
The definitive guide to learning effective skills for engaging in open and honest conversations about divisive issues from three professional mediators.
When a conversation takes a turn into the sometimes uncomfortable and often contentious topics of race, religion, gender, sexuality, and politics, it can be difficult to know what to say or how to respond to someone you disagree with. Compassionate Conversations empowers us to transform these conversations into opportunities to bridge divides and mend relationships by providing the basic set of conflict resolution skills we need to be successful, including listening, reframing, and dealing with strong emotions.
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The Zen of You and Me: A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone
Diane Musho Hamilton
How to deal with interpersonal conflict--from a Zen perspective.
The people who get under your skin the most can in fact be your greatest teachers. It’s not a matter of overlooking differences, as is often taught, but of regarding those difficult aspects of the relationship with curiosity and compassion--for those very differences offer a path to profound connection. Diane Hamilton’s practical, reality-based guide to living harmoniously with even your most irritating fellow humans—spouses, partners, colleagues, parents, children--shows that “getting along” is really a matter of discovering that our differences are nothing other than an expression of our even deeper shared unity.
"Read this book! It will masterfully help you on a journey to greater love and acceptance."
—Lodro Rinzler, author of Love Hurts and The Buddha Walks into a Bar...
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Everything Is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution
Diane Musho Hamilton
Using mindfulness to work with and resolve the inevitable interpersonal conflicts that arise in all areas of life.
Conflict is going to be part of your life—as long as you have relationships, hold down a job, or have dry cleaning to be picked up. Bracing yourself against it won’t make it go away, but if you approach it consciously, you can navigate it in a way that not only honors everyone involved but makes it a source of deep insight as well. Seasoned mediator Diane Musho Hamilton provides the skill set you need to engage conflict with wisdom and compassion, and even—sometimes—to be grateful for it.
"Wonderfully engaging, perceptive, and wise."—William L. Ury, co-author of Getting to Yes
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