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Difficult Conversations: The Art and Science of Working Together

內容簡介

內容簡介 "OFFERS TOOLS AND INSPIRATION TO HEAL OUR NATIONAL DIVIDE." DAVID BORNSTEIN, NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST. Based on a successful workshop that has engaged diverse audiences around the country, Difficult Conversations: The Art and Science of Working Together explores a powerful set of research-based principles and strategies that will allow you to engage in meaningful dialogue with anyone. Unleash your natural capacity for compassion, collaboration, and creativity, and help create a nation-and a world-that works for all of us.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Kern Beare is a former Silicon Valley executive with deep roots in the fields of interpersonal communication and conflict resolution. He's the founder of the Difficult Conversations Project (www.difficultconversationsproject.org) and leads non-profit seminars and workshops on how to heal relationships and unleash our capacity for creative collaboration.Kern’s work in this field began in the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, when he received a two-year fellow­ship from the Beyond War foundation, a fellowship that led to running educational programs on the obsolescence of war in the nuclear age and the imperative of learning to resolve conflict without violence.In the 1990s, Beyond War became the Foundation for Global Community, extending its mission to include social and environmental issues. He served on the board of the new organization and helped to develop an expanded offering of educational workshops.In the early 2000s, Kern co-founded Global MindShift, a nonprofit enterprise that offered facilitated online work­shops on the essential skills we need to survive and thrive in today’s interconnected and interdependent world.In 2016, following the U.S. Presidential election, Kern launched the Difficult Conversations Project, an initia­tive to help address our national divide.Kern holds a BA in psychology from the University of California at Los Angeles. He and his wife Amy have two grown sons — Joseph and Will — and live in Mountain View, California.

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