Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World

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PuddleDancer Press, 28 okt 2005 - 240 pagina's
In every interaction, every conversation and in every thought, you have a choice &– to promote peace or perpetuate violence. International peacemaker, mediator and healer, Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg shows you how the language you use is the key to enriching life. Take the first step to reduce violence, heal pain, resolve conflicts and spread peace on our planet &– by developing an internal consciousness of peace rooted in the language you use each day.

Speak Peace is filled with inspiring stories, lessons and ideas drawn from over 40 years of mediating conflicts and healing relationships in some of the most war torn, impoverished, and violent corners of the world. Speak Peace offers insight, practical skills, and powerful tools that will profoundly change your relationships and the course of your life for the better.

Bestselling author of the internationally acclaimed, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Discover how you can create an internal consciousness of peace as the first step toward effective personal, professional, and social change. Find complete chapters on the mechanics of Nonviolent Communication, effective conflict resolution, transforming business culture, transforming enemy images, addressing terrorism, transforming authoritarian structures, expressing and receiving gratitude, and social change.

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Inhoudsopgave

Acknowledgments
1
SPEAK PEACE
2
The Mechanics of Speaking Peace
21
How Can We Make Life More Wonderful?
41
Applying
57
Connecting with Others Empathically
77
Seeing the Beauty in Others
87
What Do You Want to Change?
95
Gangs and Other Domination Structures
105
Transforming Enemy Images
117
Speaking Peace for Social Change
131
Dealing with Conflict and Confrontation
147
Gratitude
161
SummaryFinal Thoughts
171
Copyright

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Populaire passages

Pagina 77 - Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Pagina 117 - The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Pagina 35 - Sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me." We were aware, then, that it's not what other people do that can hurt you; it's how you take it.
Pagina 79 - We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Pagina 131 - Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, the pursuit must go on.
Pagina 23 - Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Pagina 95 - Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Pagina 12 - I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Pagina 147 - It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.

Over de auteur (2005)

Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD is the founder and educational director of the Center for Nonviolent Communication. Deemed international peacemaker, mediator and healer, he spends more than 250 days each year teaching these remarkably effective communication and conflict resolution skills in local communities, at national conferences and in some of the most impoverished, war-torn areas of the world. He is based in Wasserfallenhof, Switzerland.

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