Journey From Conflict to Connection

Tag: Non-violent communication

  • 5 Mediate Your Life books summaries

    In this post, I will give a quick summary of the books that make up the Mediate Your Life series. These books are the foundations for the skills that I will go over in the Journey from Conflict to Connection workshop.

    Choosing Peace

    In this first module of the course, I go over a chapter by chapter recap of the first volume in the series.

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    From Conflict to connection

    The book that inspired the name of the workshop.

    When your mind SABOTAGES your dreams

    How to deal with the internal conflicts we all face.

    The mediate your life training manual

    Where the skills we will practice come from.

    Module 1 video now available

    The video also contains the chapter by chapter recap of the first book, Choosing Peace. Along with an We are introduced to the four components Non-violent communication, along with examples and practical techniques of using them.

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    august (1st module) is free for everyone!

    Information on the summaries from each book comes from their book summaries provided on the MediateYourLife.com website.

  • 4 WORKSHOP EXAMPLE

    Here’s an example schedule of a one week email workshop of the Self-Connection Process. (Shown Below)

    An email each day

    You’ll receive an email each day with instructions on how to practice the part of the process we are focusing on for that day.

  • 3 What are the Processes?

    Maps / Processes

    These are guides on how to respond to conflict in a particular context. I will show an example of one here.

    Whether within yourself (inner), between your self and another (interpersonal) or, when mediating for others. **

    Here’s the Self-Connection Process created by the Mediate Your Life Series authors.

    Visual Breakdown

    Here’s an example of a visual I created to help us grasp the concepts better.

    Self-Connection Process video

    To see this process in action check out Ike Lasater and John Kinyon, founders of the Mediate Your Life training company, explain the importance of this map/ process and then John leads you through the Self-Connection Process.

    This video and the rest of their Mediate Your Life toolkit can be found here.

    www.MediateYourLife.com/self-connection-process-video/

    Check out an example of my email workshop for the Self Connection Process in the next post.

    ** Mediate Your Life training manual page 23.

  • 2 How we will acquire the skills

    Using Principles of rapid skill acquisition

    From “The first 20 hours” By Josh Kaufman

    The readable section below is what we’ll be using to help us get the most out of our studying.

    https://sachachua.com/blog/2013/07/visual-book-review-the-first-20-hours-how-to-learn-anything-fast-josh-kaufman/ You can see the full visual book review on Sacha Chua’s Blog Living an Awesome Life

    Thanks to Jeff Tretsven for his help. Check out his website.

    www.CompassionateInteractions.com

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