Co-creating Peace

Welcome to "The Unicorn in You”, Episode #55 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

Today, I am joined by Joshua Kramer.  Josh’s upcoming book, "The Unicorn in You", takes an un-self-help approach to finding a path to peace and joy.  By identifying fundamental principles and the standards that guide them, he uses classic stories and timeless quotes to outline practical and actionable steps to reconnect with these universal qualities.  In The Unicorn in You, Josh reveals the everyday structures for stepping out of your head and becoming grounded in your foundation for being. Josh & I discuss how these can help each of us to co-create peaceful relationships.

Now available for Pre Order on Amazon.com, "The Unicorn in You" will be released on Tuesday, February 22nd.  Once released, it will also be available at Barnes & Noble, and on theunicorninyou.com.  In the meantime, feel free to visit theunicorninyou.com to learn more about Josh and to connect with him directly. 

Josh Kramer is the creator of The Unicorn in You, a personal growth and development perspective that emphasizes five key principles as the foundation for peace and joy.  He is the Managing Partner of Kramer Chandler, a Founding Partner of Real Connex, and an active member of YPO. 

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Welcome to “Your Many Facets”, Episode #54 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  

Today’s episode may feel like a bit of a walkabout as you hear the thoughts I will share, yet I invite and encourage you to journey with me on this little adventure of the mind. By the end of this episode, you will have new insights into yourself and others, and some new tools that will help you to more mindfully choose how you want to relate to others in any given situation.

Back in the mid-1980’s when I was studying psychology in college, I observed something about the human psyche which I call the multi-faceted sphere – each facet a different personality through which the light of our soul shines. 

I came to understand through my studies in the classroom, and my observation of myself and others, that we all have many different personalities residing within us, some of which are common to all of us, others which are unique to an individual, formed by our innate characteristics and life circumstance. Any of these personalities may come to the forefront without our consciously being aware of it, evoked by the situation we are in and our emotional response to that situation. Yet, we can mindfully choose which personality to bring forward to best address the situation we are in and the people we are interacting with.

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Welcome to “The Enneagram of Personality and the Four Doorways to Conscious Living". Episode #53 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.

Today, I am speaking with Indra Rinzler - a life-long spiritual seeker who will share a valuable tool for increasing our self-awareness and our understandings about others – Enneagram of Personality. We’re also going to talk about the 4 Doorways to Conscious Living.

Indra Rinzler is a healer and teacher and offers life readings for clients. Astrology and the Enneagram of Personality are the main modalities that he shares. He’s been studying astrology and spirituality for fifty years. He first learned of the Enneagram of Personality in 1999. He uses these two modalities individually and in combination. His focus is to help clients to awaken to who they really are. He works to help people to live beyond their conditioned stories and to live more in the moment.

To learn more about Indra and his work, and to harvest his generous offer of a Vedic astrology chart and free Enneagram test, at no charge to the Co-creating Peace audience, go to www.IndraRinzler.com, or email him at: [email protected]. You can also find him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/indra.rinzler

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Welcome to “Why CARE?" Episode #52 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.

Today, I am speaking with Sam Thiara about an acronym he has created that is central to his outlook and his work: CARE, which stands for Collaboration, Adaptability, Resilience and Empathy. We’ll talk about why this is so important and how it might be applied.

Sam Thiara is a professional who has created a personal journey as a speaker, storyteller, writer, educator, mentor, coach, entrepreneur, problem solver and community activator. 

His goal is to engage individuals in their personal and professional development, work with teams and organizations on alignment and the 45+ non-profits that he has worked with over the years.  Presently, he teaches at the Beedie School of business, at Simon Fraser University and is also the Founder and Chief Motivating Officer at Ignite the Dream Coaching and Consulting, a platform that engages his audience to define their path.  A key element is transformational practices where he has become an expert in career coaching (15-40 year old’s) with over 5,000 conversations to date and supporting teams and organizations.  He has authored two books, one on storytelling and the other a travel memoir about his journey to India to find his ancestral roots with a faded photograph.  He has also spoken at two different TEDx conferences.

He is the author of “Lost and Found” in which he tells the story of his seemingly impossible quest to find his grandfather’s village in India —armed with little more than a faded photograph.

To learn more about Sam Thiara and his work, visit his website at: www.sam-thiara.com 

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Welcome to “An Attitude of Gratitude” – Episode #51 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

When nothing seems to be going your way, your best-laid plans are thwarted by the Fates, and it feels as though the bird of paradise is leaving droppings on your head, it is so easy to go into a dark, desperate, and angry place in your psyche. It’s tempting to scream “Why me!?!” or “Screw you!” to the Universe and the powers that be, or even to vent that anger and frustration on some poor undeserving soul who crosses your path.

I speak from current experience, as I sit in a hotel room where I have been stuck for the last week by snowstorms that interrupted my road-trip to be with family for the Christmas holiday, and ruined my chances of being with loved ones, or even in my own home for any part of this holiday season.

I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t get extremely upset, or that I haven’t cried more than once as this ordeal has continued, and I sit here, trapped in a place I don’t enjoy and where I know no one. There have been times when I wanted to rage, stomp my feet, do something to vent my frustration and disappointment! 

What has gotten me through this, and will continue to do so, is reminding myself of all there is to be grateful for – having an attitude of gratitude.

On my list of things I am so very grateful for are you, my listeners. Thank you for being with me as we co-create peace in this world. I wish each and every one of you a safe, healthy, and joyful new year, and a long, long list of blessings you are grateful for!

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 Welcome to “Resolve to Resolve” – Episode 50 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

As we approach the birth of every new year, many people have the tradition of making resolutions for the new year. For 2022, I would like to invite you to resolve to resolve. 

Think about the unresolved conflicts in your life, the conversations you know you need to have but have been putting off, unmade apologies, unaccepted apologies, and the forgiveness you know someone deserves, but which you haven’t yet expressed to them.

The topic of this episode is inspired by many things. Most prominent of those are a very sad, remorseful letter from a listener and the upcoming birth of 2022. The birth of a new year gives us a sense of a fresh start, and opportunity to do things in a better way – to create better tomorrows than our yesterdays have been. Why not harvest that to co-create peace in your life? To resolve the conflicts, bridge the chasms, and heal the wounds in your life? 

So, let’s talk about what that means – resolving to resolve, how to decide if you’re ready to do that, and how to go about it if you are.

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Welcome to: "Speaking in Rounds to Help People Think” - Episode #49 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

Sheella Mierson joins me to talk about a method of designing the flow of a conversation in a way that evokes more thoughtful responses, and which allows for each person to have a chance to share their thoughts without the conversation being dominated by the stronger personalities.

Sheella specializes in helping people collaborate more effectively in a variety of settings. One of her favorite tools is having people speak in "rounds" in meetings, whether there are two people or many. She will discuss what a round is, how to do it, and why it is so effective.

Sheella Mierson, Ph.D. helps individuals and organizations design relationships, processes, and structures for creative collaboration. In her first career as a research scientist, she became interested in how people collaborate (or not) in and out of the laboratory. She is a certified facilitator for the Blueprint of We Process, and a sociocracy consultant. Her passion is to create joyful, productive relationships and workplaces, where both people and organization can flourish.

To contact Sheella or to learn more about meetings that use rounds, visit: www.sociocracyconsulting.com. Her email address is: [email protected]. 

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Welcome to “A Buddhist Perspective on Peace and Purpose” - Episode #48 of Co-creating Peace – a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

Today, I have the honor of speaking with Venerable Domo Geshe Rinpoche.

The 9th Domo Geshe Rinpoche is the Spiritual Director of White Conch Dharma Center and abbot of Lotus Lake Buddhist Retreat Center and monastery in Central Wisconsin. Having completed extensive training and retreat, Rinpoche’s current incarnation has been teaching in the United States, Europe and Canada for more than twenty years, during which time she has given numerous Buddhist retreats, both at Lotus Lake and at various retreat centers around the world. Domo Geshe Rinpoche is the author of four books:  Mystery of Emptiness & Love, Red Lotus Buddhist Wisdom, Sensing Shades of Reality - A daily reader of Buddhist concepts and journal, and her most recent publication: How to Change Your Karma ~ Healing the Past. Her next book is titled "Buddha's Brass Band" for four to seven-year-olds.

You can experience Rinpoche’s teachings during the White Conch Online Winter Retreat 2021-2022. This will be a retreat in the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition. The first session – Tonglen – will be December 27th, 2021 – January 2nd, 2022. The second session – The Nightingale Song will be January 3rd - January 9th, 2022. 

To register for this retreat and learn more about Rinpoche and her work visit the White Conch website at: www.white-conch.org. Many of her public teachings are free to stream at: www.youtube.com/user/WhiteConchFilms.

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Welcome to Part 2 of "Riverlogic - Finding Flow in our Conversational Spaces" – Episode #47 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

This episode is a continuation of last week’s broadcast of my conversation with Denise Blanc about the flow of a river as a metaphor for conversation. 

In her forthcoming book, "Riverlogic - Finding Flow in our Conversational Spaces", Denise elaborates on this metaphor in each chapter, titling the chapters using various aspects of a river: Current, Confluence, Rivulet, and Riverbank. Last week, we discussed Current and Confluence. Today, Denise will share her insights into Rivulet and Riverbank as components of this metaphor.

 Denise Blanc has over 23 years contributing to the field of Organization Development as a Leadership Coach, Senior Leader and Facilitator.  Her 20 years in a Mindfulness practice deeply informs her life and work.  She is currently completing a book of her work called Riverlogic - Finding Flow in Conversational Spaces.

For more information about Denise and her work, go to: www.riverlogicpartners.com or email her at: [email protected].

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Welcome to Part 1 of "Riverlogic - Finding Flow in our Conversational Spaces" – Episode #46 of Co-creating Peace, a podcast series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

With me is Denise Blanc to share her thoughts on the flow of a river as a metaphor for conversation. This beautiful metaphor can help us to better practice conscious communication. 

In her forthcoming book, "Riverlogic - Finding Flow in our Conversational Spaces", Denise elaborates on this metaphor in each chapter, titling the chapters using various aspects of a river: Current, Confluence, Rivulet, and Riverbank. In today’s episode, we’ll discuss Current and Confluence.

Denise Blanc has over 23 years contributing to the field of Organization Development as a Leadership Coach, Senior Leader and Facilitator.  Her 20 years in a Mindfulness practice deeply informs her life and work.  She is currently completing a book of her work called Riverlogic - Finding Flow in Conversational Spaces.

Make sure to join us next week, when Denise and I will continue our conversation, and focus on Rivulet and Riverbank as metaphors for aspects of conversation in part 2 of "Riverlogic - Finding Flow in our Conversational Spaces".

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