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Nancy Pickard, a Master Integrative Life Coach, joins me to talk about the importance of setting healthy boundaries to help us to have relationships that are sustainable.

I hope you will enjoy “Secrets to Sustainable Relationships Part 1: The Benefits of Boundaries”, Episode #104 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

Highlights of our conversation include:

• The benefit of boundaries in all types of relationships
• The importance of teaching boundaries to children
• Ways to articulate your boundaries
• How to reinforce cooperation with your boundaries

Splitting her time between Aspen, Colorado and Marin, California, Nancy is a certified Master Integrative Life Coach with a myriad of coaching certifications specializing in shadow work: Setting Healthy Boundaries, Healing your Heart, Bigger, Better, Braver, Parenting, Reinvention and Worthy to name many of them.

She is the author of the international best-selling book, Bigger Better Braver:  Conquer your fears, Embrace your courage, Transform your life. She offers a digital course and an online- zoom group coaching course featuring her book. Coaching others to step out of fear and into bigger versions of themselves is her passion.
Contact Nancy at: [email protected] and visit her website NancyPickardLifeCoach.com

To hear more concepts and tools for working with boundaries from previous Co-creating Peace guests, listen to Episodes #20, #76, & #77. For additional ideas on how to prepare for an important conversation, listen to Episode #2 on Conscious Communication, Episode #10 on I-Messages, and Episode #4 on needs-based negotiation.

Join us next week for “Secrets to Sustainable Relationships Part 2 – Living Relationally”, when Nancy and I will continue our conversation, weaving in the value of living relationally as part of relationship sustainability.

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Welcome to “Empathy: The First Step to Peace”, Episode #103 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

All around us we hear about the many divides we are experiencing as a nation, and as a specie. Solutions to the issues that divide us are complex, will take time to discover and then act upon, and the division surrounding them only delays discovery of the solutions.

The good news is that the actual divides themselves, the ragged, wounded chasms of human discord are easier to heal than you might imagine – not necessarily easy, but easier than you might imagine. Healing begins when we stop the “think like me or I will hate and destroy you” approach, and instead, mindfully create a safe space in which to deeply hear one another, and to approach those conversations with openness, curiosity, and the desire to understand. In other words, seeking to give and receive empathy - something we all long for, yet rarely experience. From mutual empathy bridges of peace are built, and a myriad of possibilities are born.

We’ve talked about the power of dialogue in many past episodes of this podcast, including episodes #86, #89, #93, #94 #95 and #96. 

Joining me is Edwin Rutsch, to talk about the nature of empathy, and ways we can evoke & experience empathy with others through Empathy Circles.

Highlights of our conversation include:

• A definition of empathy
• Empathy through deep listening
• The impact of mutual listening & mutual empathy
• Bringing empathy circles into school curriculum

Edwin Rutsch is founding director of the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy. The center’s website, CultureOfEmpathy.com, is the internet’s most comprehensive portal for empathy-related material. It hosts many empathy building projects and trainings. 

To learn more about the Empathy Circle Facilitation Training and register go to: https://www.bestempathytraining.com New cohort starts January 21st! Registration is only $30! Extended deadline for this audience: Sat. Jan. 21st

To visit the Empathy Circle Website: http://www.empathycircle.com

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One of our many limitations as human beings is our limited perspective. Most of the time, we only view the world from our own frame of reference. While, of course, this is natural and normal, it may not always give us a clear picture.... or the full picture. Reacting to what life presents us from that limited or even distorted perspective may not always serve us well. If we are upset, our view can become even more limited, constricted by the assumptions and judgements that may accompany our upset.

What if we could access wisdom that gave us a broader, less biased perspective, providing us with a wider range of options with which to view and respond to a person or situation?

Welcome to “A Source for Higher Wisdom”, Episode #102 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. 

Joining me is Margaret Agard, to share how she expands her perspective by accessing higher wisdom, and how that impacts her relationships with others.

Highlights of our conversation include:

w  Examples of ways that seeking wisdom higher than our own can help prevent or resolve conflict

w  Discussion of the importance of being open to the different forms our higher guidance might take

w  Stories about times when guidance from Margaret’s higher power helped her to see others in a whole new way

Margaret Agard is the award-winning author of the In His Footsteps memoirs, a Christian mystic, reiki healer and former executive in the high-tech industry. She is also a wife and the mother of eight grown children, step-mother to seven. Although they were never all in the house at the same time, she had many opportunities to work with conflict resolution.

You can contact Margaret by emailing her at: [email protected] Visit her two websites: margaretagard.com, and inhisfootsteps.com

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We face many challenges in today’s world. High among them is the need for more wise, strong, conscious leaders. Many young adults around the world have that potential, but they need education, mentoring, a direction to move in, and the opportunity to implement what they learn. Yet access is limited, especially for those who live in underdeveloped and impoverished countries.

That’s where the International Institute for Global Leadership (IIGL) comes in. Their conscious leadership program is available to anyone, anywhere, at no cost. This program has changed the lives of its students, their communities, and countless others who have benefited from the leadership of its students and graduates! 

Welcome to “The Path to Conscious, Co-creative Leadership”, Episode #101 of Co-creating Peace.

Joining me to talk about this great organization and its impact are IIGL Board President, Vivian Muciri (Kenya) and Executive Director, Deb Rosen.

Highlights include:

•  IIGL’s origin, Mission, program, and how people can get involved as students, donors, and mentors
• Vivian’s journey through IIGL, its impact on her, and how the project she created for her Level 7 IIGL studies, Vision for Change Foundation, is changing lives in Kenya.
•  The projects and successes of some IIGL graduates:
  • Felix Iziomoh, Nigeria – ICLDNG; Book: “Goal Mapping: 7 Simple Steps to Fulfilling Your Dreams”
  • Lawrence Afere, Nigeria – Springboard Entrepreneurship Development Initiative
  • Noeline Kirabo Mulongo, Uganda – Kyusa
  • Ethelbert Obinna Umeh, Nigeria – One Million Leaders Africa (co-founder)

Learn more about IIGL, and how you can support the program and its students at global-leadership.com, or contact Deb Rosen at: [email protected].

Vivian Muciri, an IIGL graduate, and the current President of the Board of Directors, is the Founder and Executive Director of Vision for Change Foundation, which works with youth who have gone through the criminal justice system to help them deter from crime and create decent avenues of livelihood. You can learn more about the Vision for Change Foundation by visiting their website: visionforchangefoundation.org

Deb Rosen has been the IIGL Executive Director since Jan. 2013.  Deborah holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee in Organizational Communication with a specialty in Educational Training and Curriculum Design. 

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I'm excited to be celebrating 100 episodes of Co-creating Peace! I am so grateful to all you loyal listeners & patrons for the continued success of this podcast. Many of you have reached out to me with feedback & ideas for topics; some have requested advice, communication coaching, or other services. It’s been so great to connect with all of you! I look forward to our continued connection & to being of service through this podcast and my other work. 

Welcome to "From Drama Triangle to Circle of Empowerment"  Episode #100 of Co-creating Peace.

I'm delighted to have Susan Partnow join me again. While discussing Compassionate Listening in Episodes #95 & #96, Susan briefly referenced the drama triangle. Then, in Episode #97, Fleet Maull mentioned the drama triangle as well. I realized that this is a phenomenon that is so often present in conflict dynamics and so often the cause of conflict, that I need to have an episode of this podcast that focuses on the Drama Triangle so we can learn more about it and how to work constructively with our tendency to engage at that level. Susan Partnow is well-versed on the drama triangle and how to transform it into a circle of empowerment, so I invited her to return to share more of her wisdom with us.

Highlights of our conversation include:

• The 3 roles in the drama triangle and how they interact (We all step into one of these roles from time to time.)
• How to bring mindfulness to the role we’ve assumed in the drama triangle
• How to move from the drama triangle into the circle of empowerment
• How to invite others to join us in moving from the drama triangle into the circle of empowerment

Susan’s 5-session “Intro to Compassionate Listening” class, which includes working with the Drama Triangle, begins Jan. 12th. Register at compassionatelistening.org.
You can find additional information and background on the Drama Triangle at karpmandramatriangle.com.

Susan Partnow, M.A., has catalyzed social transformation and worked to heal the world ‘from the inside out’ through The Compassionate Listening Project (TCLP) for over 35 years. She is Co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America, Global Citizen Journey and Seattle Restorative Justice.

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Most people see the legal arena as a place to do battle, a place where we annihilate the person we see as our opponent. We seek an attorney to be our warrior to win the legal battle for us. What if there was another way? What if attorneys took a different approach, one where they would still be an advocate and champion the cause of their client, but without long drawn-out battle and attempts at mutual annihilation?  What might be possible if attorneys shifted to a heart-centered approach to their law practice?

Welcome to “The Lawyer as Peacemaker”, Episode #99 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. Eric Sirotkin, an attorney for over 40 years, with a law practice in Santa Fe, NM, joins me to talk about creative skill-sets for the 21st century lawyer, moving the role of a lawyer from warrior to a partner for peace in the just resolution of disputes.
Highlights of our conversation include:

• Recognition of how we are all connected, how the harm we do to others is harm to ourselves, and how remembering Unbutu can help us transcend the desire for retaliation
• Exploring the importance of attorneys shifting to a more heart-centered, healing, (Unbutu) way of practicing law and how they can begin to make that shift
• Discussion of how mediation, restorative justice, and transitional justice empower people to find peaceful resolution, even after traumatic events
• Looking at integrative and collaborative law and how they differ from standard practices of law
• Some of the things that Eric learned from Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Eric Sirotkin’s work around the world, including with Archbishop Tutu, Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, and restorative justice processes has led him on a mission to reframe the law by retraining lawyers on Creative Tools to expand their skillset and humanize their profession. He teaches techniques to survive and thrive in the “us vs them” world of law, helping lawyers gain an understanding of the nature of human relationships that will give them an edge in litigation, legal counseling, and resolving conflict. He is the author of “Witness: A lawyer's journey from litigation to liberation”.

By sharing successful alternative and indigenous models he helps lawyers use such skills in their everyday practice while weaving in a new slant on legal ethics reflective of a healing profession, that repatterns what it means to provide honest advice and confront moral dilemmas within a case. 

To register for one of Eric’s classes “Tools for Creative Lawyering” or learn more about The UbuntuWorks Project,visit www.ubuntuworksschool.org. To learn more about Eric and his work as an attorney, visit ericsirotkin.com.

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Enjoy “Change Your Thinking, Change Your Experience”, Episode #98 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.

What most often gets in the way of a person’s success is their own limiting beliefs. This is true when it comes to business, self-empowerment, what we manifest in our life, and to resolving conflict. Yes, our biggest obstacle in life is our own thinking. Joining me today to talk about how we can transcend that phenomenon is Molly Mandelberg, Founder of Wild Hearts Rise Up, Creator of the Magnetic Influencers Collective, bestselling author, and host of two podcasts. 

Highlights of our conversation include:

•  How transcending our limiting beliefs and shifting into "possibilities consciousness" expands our ability to manifest what we want to create in our life, including peace with others.
•  The value of daily rituals to help us to stay calm & centered under stress, including when working through conflict. Molly provides some great recommendations for some of those rituals.
• How doing our personal growth work and developing our emotional intelligence will help us become better communicators. This helps us to reduce and manage our emotional triggers.
• How EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can help us to find inner peace, which is a powerful contributor to peace with others.  (Episode #70 is about EFT)

After spending years mastering content creation and online marketing, Molly Mandelberg finds her bliss in bridging the worlds of heart-centered healing and transformation, with the practical business strategies of leveraging a message into a global movement. She is a certified NLP Coach, an Access Consciousness Bars Facilitator, a Transformational Leadership Coach and a full time Nomad. 

Molly works with coaches, healers, and conscious leaders to broadcast their messages with ease, so they can reach more people, and make more money with less time spent. She travels the world full-time and runs her 6-figure business out of her self-converted sprinter van tiny-home. Molly loves helping her clients to systemize their work and master the magnetics of marketing, so they can experience more freedom and make an even bigger difference.

You can learn more about Molly and her work or contact her at: www.wildheartsriseup.com

You can hear more of Molly’s wisdom on her podcasts: “Reveal the Game of Life” and “Tactical Magic”. Last week, Molly interviewed me on Tactical Magic about transforming conflict. We had a great conversation! Check it out on any podcast provider, including Apple podcasts.

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Welcome to “How to Move Beyond Blame, Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good”, Episode #97 of Co-creating Peace.

Dr. Fleet Maull joins me to talk about Radical Responsibility, and how practicing it can empower us to better co-create peace with others.

Highlights of our conversation were:

• Fleet’s transformation from angry young man who spent 14 years in prison, to Roshi (Zen master/senior teacher), psychologist, author of 3 books & founder of 2 non-profits, one of which brings mindfulness, meditation, and emotional intelligence training into the criminal justice system;
• The value of mindfulness & emotional intelligence to help us to co-create peace;
• Radical Responsibility;
• Shifting from victim mindset to the co-creative mindset & how that relates to peacemaking;
• The Drama Triangle and its relationship to conflict;
• The power of dialogue. 

Fleet Maull, PhD is an author, meditation teacher, mindset coach, social entrepreneur and peacemaker who works at the intersection of personal and social transformation. He founded Prison Mindfulness Institute & National Prison Hospice Association while serving a 14-year mandatory-minimum federal drug sentence, 1985 to 1999. 

He is a Roshi (Zen master/senior teacher) in the Zen Peacemaker Community, a senior Dharma teacher in the Shambhala-Tibetan Buddhist tradition, and leads meditation retreats worldwide. He developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness or NSM, a deeply embodied, neuroscience & trauma informed approach to mindfulness & awareness meditation practice that facilitates self-healing, self-regulation, and awakening. 

VIsit FleetMaull.com to learn more about Dr. Maull's work, and heartmind.co to learn about his classes and summits.

Dr. Maull is the author of Radical Responsibility: How to Move Beyond Blame, Live Your Highest Purpose and Become an Unstoppable Force for Good. You can find it by going to: https://www.radicalresponsibilitybook.com & download the first chapter free.

The organization Fleet mentioned toward the end of our conversation is called Braver Angels. To learn more about Braver Angels go to braverangels.org. They are one of several organizations around the country who conduct dialogues between people with diverse perspectives and politics. Duncan Autrey & I discuss several of those organizations in Episodes # 93 & #94 of this podcast. I also provided the contact information for them in the show notes for those two episodes.

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This is an early broadcast  - instead of airing it on the weekend as I usually do, I wanted to air it before Thanksgiving, for those of you who may be wondering how to have non-contentious family conversations at Thanksgiving – or any other holiday for that matter, especially during times like we’re in now, where there are strong and opposing feelings and opinions nationwide about our political arena, human rights and other current national issues. 

My guest Susan Partnow has some tools and ideas to share with you to help set the tone for more compassionate conversations, and to help you navigate to more peaceful waters when conversations become turbulent.

Welcome to Part 2 of “The Heart is our Compass:  Compassionate Listening in Polarized Times”, Episode #96 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.

Last week, in Part 1, Susan Partnow told us about the origin of Compassionate Listening, its five core practices and how we can cultivate compassion.

In this episode, we discuss how to bring Compassionate Listening into your daily life and how to use Compassionate Listening practices in contentious situations, including those you may find yourself in with your family over the Thanksgiving holiday.

To learn more about Compassionate Listening and the Compassionate Listening Project, visit www.compassionatelistening.org. To contact Susan Partnow, email her at: [email protected]

I hope you have a peaceful and joy-filled Thanksgiving. Please know that I am thankful for each and every one of you. Your listener-ship and your patronage mean the world to me. Thank you!

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Each of us has a yearning to be deeply heard, but few of us know how to actually do that for others. Fortunately, there is a beautiful process called Compassionate Listening, which anyone can easily learn to do.

Enjoy “The Heart is our Compass: Compassionate Listening in Polarized Times, Part 1”, Episode #95 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication & conflict transformation.

This is the first of a 2-part interview with Susan Partnow about Compassionate Listening. Susan works closely with Leah Green, founder of The Compassionate Listening Project as the Coordinator for the Advanced Compassionate Listening Training and a mentor for those who seek certification as a Compassionate Listening facilitator. 

In this episode, we talk about the origin of Compassionate Listening, its five core practices and how we can cultivate compassion. 

Join us on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, for an early broadcast of Part 2 of this conversation where Susan and I will talk about how to bring Compassionate Listening into your daily life and how to use Compassionate Listening in contentious conversations, including those you may find yourself in with your family over the Thanksgiving holiday, especially amidst the discordant political climate we are in.

Susan Partnow, M.A., has catalyzed social transformation and worked to heal the world ‘from the inside out’ through The Compassionate Listening Project (TCLP) for over 35 years from Africa and India to Guatemala, Cuba to Japan.

To learn more about the Compassionate Listening Project visit www.compassionatelistening.org. To contact Susan Partnow directly, email her at: [email protected].

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