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 →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
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