Found a fantastic slideshow on, of all places, the Harvard Business Review website: http://hbr.org/web/slideshows/difficult-conversations-nine-common-mistakes/1-slide This slideshow lists nine common communication we typically make when in conflict, and offers alternative strategies to insert in place of these mistakes. Very helpful at this time of year …
...read more →“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all
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...read more →If you are heterosexual, partnered and fertile, having children can be a fairly straightforward process. If you are LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered or queer),* the process generally can be…well…not so straightforward. (No pun intended). In addition to logistical and parenting path considerations (Do we adopt? Do we find a surrogate? Do we use a known or unknown donor?), LGBTQ parents must be
...read more →“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is
...read more →One of my favorite resources to recommend to clients is a fabulous little book called Conversational Riffs, written by a colleague of mine from the UK, Neil Denny. Neil is a collaborative lawyer (or, solicitor, as he is known in the UK), and has done quite a bit of field study on conflict and communication through his legal practice. The size of a
...read more →Frequently I work with divorcing couples or couples post-divorce who are wrestling with the struggles of maintaining two homes for their children. Keeping up with a school-age child’s sports, activity and social schedule is challenging enough when both parents reside under the same roof and can communicate reasonably well; add to this separate homes, separate rules, and potentially intra-parental conflict, and things get
...read more →I look forward to Seth Godin’s microblogs each morning, on business development, marketing and practice. (see www.sethgodin.com). This morning his post was about “extrinsic motivation,” and how extrinsic motivation was a hallmark of the industrial age of human development. As we have moved far beyond that age, into the complex and creative interwebs-driven world in which we now live, we rely far less
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