I have been very fortunate to have several exceptional coaches and teachers. I have noticed that they have a lot of things in common. They have a lot of trust in the success of their students. They attentively listen to us. They challenge our assumptions. They know how to engage us. They are very kind…
Category: conflict
27 Years of Silence and Estrangement
“I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight.” – Nirad C. Chaudhuri When I was a child in Ukraine, I watched a TV program called “Find Me”. This program covered stories about…
Conflict and Creativity
“When we face our conflicts, invite our imagination to interact with them, and then give them up to the great space of Creativity itself, new ideas and insights burst forward unexpectedly.” – Diane Musho Hamilton For some of us, conflict and creativity don’t have anything in common from the first look. Indeed, if we have…
“The negativity bias is no our fault. We didn’t create it. Still, we can do something about it.” –— Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
There are ways to work with your brain and change it for the better through self-directed neuroplasticity. In his fascinating book ”Hardwiring Happiness”, neuropsychologist Rick Hanson, Ph.D. describes how the brain evolved a negativity bias for the survival of our ancestors, explains what negativity bias is, and relates how this bias affects our quality of life:…
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” ——– Mark Twain
Some of you are probably wondering, “Why does she write about gratitude or courage instead of about conflict resolution?” Fair enough! We’ll get there one day, I promise. John Ford, my mentor, said something like this in 2010, “To resolve an interpersonal conflict [conflict between you and John Doe], you need to resolve an intrapersonal…
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