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The Way of Conflict teaches strategies for using ancient wisdom and modern techniques to confidently engage in any dispute and reach a balanced resolution. This groundbreaking book integrates the wealth of conflict skills found throughout the world's major religious and indigenous traditions with the latest scientific systems and conflict resolution theory. It uses the crosscultural metaphor of the four natural elements - earth, water, fire, and air...
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Creating peace in our lives is a life-long journey. The author, a successful conflict resolution and mediation consultant, draws on knowledge and techniques from many different disciplines: neurology, psychology, teambuilding, communication skills, negotiation, martial arts, alternative dispute resolution, law, education, diversity training, and spirituality.
All her concepts and tools are solidly based on accepted research; nevertheless the book...
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Novela de ficción que desnuda la dura historia de un hombre que transcurre su vida desde la infancia, sin la presencia de su madre y con un padre ausente y poco afectivo. LLegada su juventud decide alejarse de su padre e intentar hacer su propio proyecto de vida. Durante ese tiempo aprende a sobrellevar su soledad y la intensa necesidad de saber de su madre.
Es así que pasado el tiempo y descubriendo huellas ocultas , hará un descubrimiento inesperado,...
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Filled with commonsense ideas that can apply to any relationship, this guide will help anyone interested in improving communication with their partner. It emphasizes that communication is the key to a good relationship, and that an inability to understand one another is the main reason most couples enter into therapy with a professional counselor. It offers twenty tips that are likely to improve the way couples talk and listen to each other.
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Lorena es una chica rica que posee todo lo que el dinero puede comprar. Además de rica es linda, dulce y llena de vida. Lo que ella no esperaba era que un golpe, sin aviso del destino, terminará con su compromiso y su historia de amor de ocho años. Sin forma de continuar su vida en su ciudad, decide mudarse a Brasilia y vivir un día a la vez, intentando olvidar a William y el dolor que sintió por perderlo. No contaba con el cambio de planes que...
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Conflict leads us through paths where we either thrive in our relationships, or we strive one against the other. Relationships thrive, promote growth, and expand creativity if problems are resolved in meaningful ways. Opposite of thriving is striving. When conflict is used as a chasm for control over others, violence, threats, and selfish gain, it's harmful to everyone involved. Conflict must be laced with love as in the yin and yang concept. They...
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Divorced and separated parents are told they must co-parent. Yet millions of parents face daily battles with their children's other parent. The conflict is real and so is the threat of losing custody. There is also the ongoing fear that the other parent will succeed in alienating their children. When your relationship with your children is at risk, how can you let go
Practical Parallel Parenting is a MUST READ for anyone in a high conflict relationship...
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In "How to Breakup with Strength and Compassion: Ending Relationships with Grace," embark on a transformative journey towards embracing the art of parting ways with dignity and empathy. Discover the empowering strategies and heartfelt insights that pave the way for honorable farewells, as you navigate the intricate terrain of ending relationships. From fostering open communication and understanding to cultivating resilience and self-compassion, this...
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While working with parents and children for nearly half a century, it has become increasingly evident that the Adlerian child psychology methods as outlined in this book are effective when applied to family conflicts. They have been tested by numerous teachers, counselors, and others in many locations over many years. Many parents have discovered for themselves that these strategies engage their children and win their cooperation. Still, parents often...
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Le présent ouvrage traite du programme Crise-Ado-Famille-Enfance (CAFE), un outil d'intervention pour les familles en crise.
Il est l'aboutissement de plus de 15 années de collaboration entre des chercheurs, des étudiants, des dizaines d'intervenants et plusieurs gestionnaires. Le programme a été créé en 1999 en réponse à une situation critique en Montérégie: 70 % des interventions effectuées auprès de jeunes et de familles non connus...
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This book is about getting rid of our strongholds (which are nothing but false and distorted beliefs). Most times, we plant rocks and boulders in our own path, thinking we are planting seeds for growth. It's time to do away with the finger-pointing and accept accountability for ourselves. In order to see the bigger picture of things, you must be willing to let go of old beliefs that never helped you in the first place. This book will lead you to the...
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Going through a family breakup with children is a tremendous event in itself. “Sons and Cadillacs” is a heartwarming story about a father who had no idea how to manage through such a change let alone be a successful single parent. Prioritizing being a great dad and relying on a wonderful family, the best of friends, and two beautiful children, he was not only able to progress but endure. Finding joy with the people around him and a feeling of...
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When you are in a relationship with a critical partner-someone who constantly blames you and holds you to unrealistic standards-you may feel picked apart, unworthy, and unhappy. You may start to wonder if you'll ever be good enough for your partner. This guide can help you repair your relationship by getting to the root of why your partner criticizes you so that you both can build a more loving and supportive partnership. Based in schema therapy,...
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You'd think if someone was caught having an affair that they'd make a full confession. You'd think they would know if they wanted to stay or leave. You'd think they would be able to explain why they were unfaithful. You'd think if they promised to 'fight' for their marriage that their actions would match their words. But for lots of people recovery is not so straightforward and takes far longer than they would have imagined on discovery day. Sometimes...
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This presents effective techniques for resolving disputes. This excellent source can serve as a basic training manual for you who are involved in mediating disputes. The extensive array of real-life examples of typical scripts that may play out in situations that will help you clarify these ideas. These are powerful tools for anyone caught in the middle of other people's disputes. It shows how effective mediators can pull people together to produce...
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This book tells the story of: how one's life, simultaneously guided and sustained by God, could still enter, an in-depth journey, with excruciating hardship & trials to face, throughout an unknown period of time.
Mark 1:12, 13
It is the moral climax of depletion; "yet" a story of unyielding faith, that God will have the final say about their life.
In a developing story of one "who proclaims to love Christ, to one who truly walks with Christ,' you...
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During the last several generations, developments in the field of education and child guidance have begun to corroborate a set of ideas and observations presented here, which were first presented in Europe during the first third of the last century and refined during the last third. Many of these concepts, which were controversial when first suggested, are now being further developed and are becoming generally accepted by modern psychologists and...
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Lorsque naissent nos enfants et que nous les prenons dans nos bras pour la première fois, l'amour que nous ressentons pour eux emplit notre coeur d'un seul coup. Toutefois, les connaissances parentales, la patience, l'écoute et l'art de la discipline éducationnelle n'arrivent malheureusement pas aussi spontanément...
Dans le cours normal de la vie, il arrive que des problèmes comportementaux surviennent chez nos enfants, à la garderie ou à...
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Do you need a breakthrough?
Do you have a difficult person in your professional or personal life? Is there a conversation you know you should have but don't want to risk damaging the relationship? Would you like to move past the pain into a more productive relationship?
Relational hurts are like pebbles in our shoes. Strained relationships, failed conversations and unresolved conflicts drain our energy and sabotage our success.
Business coach Linda...
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Vous désirez savoir comment bien accompagner votre enfant pour qu'il devienne un adulte responsable et autonome ? Alors ce livre est pour vous !
Être parent est un défi quotidien, et il n'existe malheureusement pas de manuel d'instruction! Cependant, pour guider son enfant vers l'autonomie et en faire un être épanoui, il existe certains principes de base. Ils vous sont présentés dans ce livre afin que vous vous sentiez mieux outillé pour jouer...
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