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Getting To Agreement

Strategy Driven

People’s viewpoints, values, and world view come from their core beliefs, acquired through the experiences of our lives: from parents and education; religion and what we do for a living; what our parents taught us (implicitly and explicitly) and what we learned from friends. What’s causing the disparity between ideas, goals and convictions?

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The Skills of Kindness: a guide for sellers, coaches, leaders and facilitators

Strategy Driven

It’s necessary to listen using a different part of our brain (not Active Listening) that we’ve never been taught to use intentionally. I’ve developed them. I’ve developed a generic model that gives Facilitators the skills to facilitate change at the belief and systems levels. The Skills of Change.

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We Don’t Know How to Hear Each Other: how biases distort our conversations

Strategy Driven

During this time of racial, class, political, gender, and education divide, of distrust and blame and victimhood, of killing and guns and violence, our inability to deeply hear each other is heartbreaking and costly. I’m going to offer some steps for us to dialogue and reach win/win consensus.

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