Co-creating Peace

Welcome to “How You Say It Affects How They See It” - Episode #15 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. This episode is part 2 of a 2-part series on reframing. Last week, I told you about what I consider to be one of the most powerful tools I know for both peacemaking and psychological well-being: reframing your perspective. Today, you’ll learn how to use reframing in your communication to help you more skillfully navigate challenging communication and difficult conversations. 

Joining me today, is Diane Grover, founder of LifeDance Mediation Services in Albuquerque, NM. Diane is an award-winning mediator, in practice since 2003. In the past 18 years, Diane has performed over 1000 mediations, including more than 700 divorce and parentage cases.

Several years ago, Diane and I co-authored a workshop on reframing communication, titled "Wrangling With Reframes".

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Welcome to “If You Change the Way You Look at Things, the Things You Look at Change” - Episode 14 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. This episode is part 1 of a 2-part series on reframing.  Today, I’m going to tell you about what I consider to be one of the most powerful tools I know for both peacemaking and psychological well-being: reframing your perspective. Next week, in Part 2, you’ll learn how to use re-framing in your communication to help you more skillfully navigate challenging communication and difficult conversations.

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Welcome to “Conflict Is An Opportunity” - Episode 13 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.

How often have you thought of conflict as an opportunity? Most people don’t see conflict that way at all! In this podcast, I’ll tell why you will find it helpful to seek and find the positive opportunity in every conflict in your life. 

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Welcome to “Conflict Is Natural” - Episode 12 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. We are joined today by Tim Hicks, a fellow mediator, in Eugene, OR. Tim Hicks has been a conflict resolution professional or “conflict worker” since 1993 From 2006 to the end of 2014, he was the first director of the Masters degree program in Conflict and Dispute Resolution at the University of Oregon. He has been back in private practice since 2014, helping individuals and organizations communicate, problem-solve, and make decisions, and continuing to teach. Tim is the Author of “Embodied Conflict: the neural basis of conflict and communication”, which is available on Amazon.

To learn more about Tim and his work, visit his website at: www.connexusconflictmanagement.com

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Welcome to “Speaking Their Language” - Episode 11 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. Today’s episode is about what are called modalities of communication – the different ways in which people best receive, process, and communicate information. You might call it our brain’s language. We’ll look at each of the modalities, and how the differences in how we receive, process, and communicate information can lead to miscommunication and conflict. We’ll also talk about how you can adapt your communication style to “speak the other person’s language” to facilitate better communication and understanding. 

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Welcome to “The ‘I’s Have It” - Episode 10 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. Today’s episode is about using I-messages to help you deliver information in a way that feels safe for others to hear. I’ll also read a letter to you that I received from a couple of listeners and share with you the advice that I gave them, which directly relates to this topic.

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Welcome to “Hear Them” - Episode 9 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. Today’s episode is about the power of helping others to feel heard.
Joining me today, is Michael Lightweaver. Michael has led a long and interesting life of service to humanity. 
 Among his many accomplishments, in 2002 he founded the International Institute For Global Leadership, an internet based study program, whose primary mission is to provide a tuition-free education to individuals who wish to become high-integrity, heart-centered and conscious leaders in their communities and the world. Michael now serves as the steward of the Mountain Light Sanctuary a spiritual retreat center in a remote mountain cove near Asheville, North Carolina where he offers guidance sessions to those who seek him out. Michael has also published 3 books: The World According to Michael, A Day of Grace, and Conscious Creation 101.

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 Welcome to “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” - Episode 8 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In this episode, we’re going to talk about Filters and Assumptions, and the role they play in creating and fostering conflict. You will also learn about The Iroquois Rule of Six. In Episode #58, Michael Lightweaver and I discuss more about this topic.

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Welcome to “What’s Your Style?” - Episode #7 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In this episode, you'll learn about conflict styles – the ways in which we consciously or unconsciously approach conflict situations, why we choose the approach we do and the benefit of being mindful in the conflict style we choose. 

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Welcome to “I See You” - Episode #6 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. In this episode, I talk about the power that acknowledgement has to help people feel heard, to de-escalate upset, and to transform conflict. Many people have said that acknowledgement began their healing.

I’m also going to weave in some more thoughts on asking open-ended questions, which I talked about in Episode #5, and which are a great way to move the conversation forward from the foundation of acknowledgement.

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