You’ve seen it before, and you’ll see it again:

• Someone digs in his heels and adamantly refuses to admit he’s wrong, even though the evidence is clearly against him.

• Someone devotes far more resources to trying to defeat someone than she can possibly recover, even if she wins.

• Someone gets into a heated disagreement with a relative or co-worker about how to address a…

National Crime Prevention Council has developed several initiatives to educate children and adults to help them be safe from crime. The McGruff Club curriculum for children ages six to ten…

The Texas Conflict Coach® Blog Talk Radio program announces the following episodes starting

in the month of  September, held every Tuesday night from 7:00-7:30 pm CST/8:00-8:30 pm EST.…

How can we use words and voice as tools for a more peaceful world? Laurie Schloff, communication coach, author of Smart Speaking, a book called "the best book ever written about speaking" will discuss the top five techniques for communicating in a peaceful,…

Learn about truancy and how mediation can be a valuable process for students, parents, and schools. You will learn about typical cases referred to our juvenile truancy mediation program and possible outcomes. We will discuss the benefits of truancy mediation as well as take away…

As summer vacation ends, parents rush to prepare for another school year. You may have filled your child’s backpack, but missed the most important detail in your preparations. Join Jeanne Dexter and Paul Schweinler, to learn how parents, teachers, and other adults, can start conversations with their child that allow them to talk about what concerns them, express what they need,…

Conflict is at the heart of some of our best ideas and at the root of some of our worst failures. How can we improve our competence to make the best out of this inevitable part of our lives? During this show Tim Flanagan and Craig Runde will discuss how to improve cognitive, emotional, behavioral and normative skills required to manage conflict effectively. They will draw on stories and tips from their new book,…

The Texas Conflict Coach® Blog Talk Radio program announces the following Back to School series starting in the month of August, held every Tuesday night from 7:00-7:30 pm CST/8:00-8:30 pm EST.

To participate, go to the designated link for each program or call-in live at 347-324-3591.

August 6th :     Back To School Planning – How to Equip Your Child with the Strength and Confidence to

                              Face the School…

Enjoy the summer!Victoria Pynchon’s new book is an adult primer on the difficult art of resolving, transforming or transcending conflict in your home, your workplace, your community, your state, your nation and your world. Victoria is an attorney who traded in her boxing gloves for the softer but no less difficult skills of helping lawyers and their business clients resolve their commercial disputes. Now she brings the wisdom of the courtroom and…

Listening is a skill. It is an art. It is a discipline. It is hard. It takes attention and practice. It takes awareness. It is particularly hard when you don't want to hear the person who is talking to you. It is particularly hard in disagreements, arguments and conflicts. How do we listen without being caught by the judgments, opinions, desires, justifications and stories rumbling around…

In this show, we kicked off March's International Listening Awareness month with Susan Young. Susan is a news and communications expert with 25 years of experience.

I spoke with Susan about the "new trend" in listening she calls "silent listening." The ability to quiet the mind, focus without distractions, and being in the moment...all with the purpose of improving business…

During the month of July, please enjoy these previously recorded shows. We will return live every Tuesday night beginning August 6, 2013. Enjoy the summer!

We often long to solve conflict and the question becomes how. On today’s program Eileen Dowse will share her SOLVE™ model as an easy approach for you to work through issues and…

In our final episode of the series Conflict and Empathy: Where Has Empathy and Compassion Gone? Keiko Krahnke from the University of Colorado will join me and Edwin Rutsch, Center for Building a Culture of…

The Texas Conflict Coach® Blog Talk Radio program announces the following episodes starting

in the month of  July, held every Tuesday night from 7:00-7:30 pm CST/8:00-8:30 pm EST.

During the month of July, please enjoy these previously recorded shows. We will return live every Tuesday night beginning August 6, 2013. Enjoy the summer!

July 2nd :   How to SOLVE Your Conflicts

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In our third episode of the series Conflict and Empathy: Where Has Empathy and Compassion Gone? Edwin Rutsch, Center for Building a Culture of Empathy and I will discuss how do we foster empathy in a family? Edwin will share some personal stories of how he has personally fostered empathy in his extended family and how he used…

In our second episode of the series Conflict and Empathy: Where Has Empathy and Compassion Gone?, Edwin Rutsch and I will discuss how do we build empathy and compassion? Edwin will discuss a number of strategies he has implemented at the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy. One strategy has been the use of Empathy Circles…

For many of us engaged in conflict or embroiled in a dispute, it can be very difficult to muster up empathy and compassion for the other side. The longer the conflict goes unresolved it seems the less empathy we have for them as a human being. In this first of our four episode series--Conflict and Empathy: Where Has Empathy and Compassion Gone?-- we will introduce the “wheel…

Family businesses are unique and complex differing in many ways from non-family businesses. For those family businesses preparing for the next generation to transition and succeed, they need to expect all kinds of issues to arise that can cause conflict. Family members have questions…

The Texas Conflict Coach® Blog Talk Radio program announces the following episodes starting

in the month of  June, held every Tuesday night from 7:00-7:30 pm CST/8:00-8:30 pm EST.

Our guest for the month of June will be Edwin Rutsch, Founder of a global empathy movement, The Center for Building a Culture of Empathy.  We will be discussing various topics in our 4-part series on Conflict and Empathy:  Where Has…

There has been much said regarding the ability of parties to mediate in cases where there has been domestic abuse. While no one believes abuse is an issue that can be mediated, the parties may have issues that can be resolved through mediation. Our program will discuss issues…