I’ve got two June workplace conflict resolution workshops that are open to the public, and registration is now under way for both. I’d love to see you there!
Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits
Thursday, June 5, 2008, Keene, NH
This seminar will invite you to jump-start the important dialogues in your life by breaking [...]

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.” – Suzuki Roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
In Zen practice, beginner’s mind is the curious mind, the mind that’s completely open to what’s unfolding in front of it and free of judgments, expectations, diagnoses. Like a child’s mind, it embraces wonderment at [...]

Arguments can be seductive. What begins as a minor squabble escalates as each person temporarily loses their senses, forgetting that winning a squabble is rarely a success at all.
In the heat of the moment during interpersonal conflict, the gap between what you know and what you do becomes the damn Grand Canyon.
What if you have [...]

So much conflict is about what happened and the pain of the past. So much workplace conflict resolution is about what will happen from here forward. It’s unfortunate that we so highly value the past and the future at the expense of the present.
The present moment is, after all, the only time over which we [...]