Bøger af John Kinyon

"It's like magic-so clear and simple and transformative." Mary Mackenzie, author, Peaceful Living: Daily Meditations for Living with Love, Healing and Compassion; Co-founder, NVC Academy; Executive Director, Peace Workshop, International; Certified NVC Trainer; Mediator "Choosing Peace has great potential to transform your life." -Valerie Rose Belanger, Managing Director, Yale World Fellows, Yale University "I hope the whole world reads it." Larry Rosen, attorney-mediator and founder of Through Understanding What if you could feel calm and in control in the face of conflict? In Choosing Peace, you will learn a new approach to communication and conflict that creates peace, internally and externally. The concrete tools and skills in this book allow you to be clear in your communication and help others do the same. Through practicing what is in this compelling guidebook, you can build more satisfying and engaging relationships and create more compassion and peace in your life. Read Choosing Peace to be able to: -Understand how conflict can be a vehicle to connection -Escape from endless replaying of stressful conversations -Be kinder to yourself -Gain acceptance for others -Stop behaving in ways that do not get you what you want -Learn a new set of skills to navigate sticky conflict situations -Get a new perspective on recurring conflicts-and how to resolve them -Recognize and shift out of fight-flight-freeze stress patterns -Listen skillfully and non-judgmentally -Deepen the quality of interaction with others Written by authors with nearly 40 years combined experience in a Nonviolent Communication approach to mediation and conflict resolution, who have trained thousands of people worldwide to choose peace. About Mediate Your Life John Kinyon and Ike Lasater have been refining their distinct Mediate Your Life approach since 2003. Building on their decades of work with Marshall Rosenberg, founder of Nonviolent Communication, Mediate Your Life provides telecourses and workshops in countries around the world, helping people approach conflict as an opportunity and gain the skills and capacity to create true dialogue and new possibilities for connection. Together and individually they have mediated conflicts with couples, families, businesses, institutions, and legal contexts. Ike Lasater is a former trial attorney who co-founded a thriving San Francisco law firm. John Kinyon has a background in psychology and is a certified trainer with the international Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC).

Have you ever stopped yourself from achieving a dream, even before you started? Was it because of critical internal voices giving you one or more reasons why you couldn't make it happen? If so, you may be surprised to learn that those seemingly negative voices not only have a meaningful purpose, but that they can actually become your allies instead of your detractors. In When Your Mind Sabotages Your Dreams, you will master a way of being in relationship with yourself that empowers you to turn self-sabotaging internal voices into supporters that contribute to creating the life you desire. The concrete, practical tools and maps in this book will help you navigate all stages of planning and realizing your dreams by: - creating clarity and connection within - utilizing self-empathy and other compassionate methods - removing the barriers that hold you back - overcoming judgment of past choices - persevering when others are obstacles If you've had one foot on the gas and one on the brake, When Your Mind Sabotages Your Dreams will shift you into alignment so that you can move full speed ahead on whatever dream, big or small, you aspire to accomplish.