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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. Hearing Agreement. Isn’t there a middle road to agreement?

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

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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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