Control Your Emotions By Labeling Them
Tammy Lenski- If you want to control your emotions better during difficult conversations, do something counter-intuitive: Give up trying not to feel them. Instead, put a label on them.
Recognizing and naming an emotion can have a powerful effect on quelling it. Psych professor Matthew Lieberman, author of Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect, calls it “affect labeling.” You can use affect labeling to help yourself and others.
Instead of trying to push an emotion away, the idea is to draw it closer by feeling it, identifying it, and putting a label on it. Instead of indulging a strong emotion that’s damaging a conversation, affect labeling acknowledges the emotion in order to stop being hobbled by it.
Read more [HERE].
War-zone conflict resolution expert working with Brisbane entrepren...
Stop what you're doing for five minutes - listen up - because you're about to learn some things from a bloke who has trained people in conflict resolution in the war zones of Chechnya and Bosnia.
Richard Bolstad is in town to spend the day with a number of Queensland entrepreneurs - showing them how to not to get shot whilst chasing their dreams: LISTEN HERE
Drew University received generous support from the Endeavor Foundation to fund the Institute on Religion and Conflict Transformation in 2016 and 2018.
Drew’s first Institute on Religion and Conflict Transformation was held in 2013, when emerging religious leaders from five conflict-torn countries gathered at Drew for a month in the summer to focus on their role in transforming interreligious conflicts.
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Each of these three trends could have a potentially huge impact on global businesses
Business is global. Dispute resolution is global. Trends that originate in one jurisdiction can, and often do, have an impact around the world. To succeed, businesses and their counsel must stay abreast—and hopefully get ahead—of those trends. Three current trends present important opportunities and challenges to the in-house counsel community and merit close attention.
Development of a framework for expedited enforcement of conciliation/mediation settlement agreements
It is widely agreed that the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards has played a critical role in the growth of arbitration over the last half a century. As of January 2015, over 150 state parties have adopted the New York Convention which, by providing a multilateral framework recognizing the validity of commercial arbitration agreements and enabling expedited enforcement of arbitral awards in convention states, has made arbitration the leading form of dispute resolution for cross-border disputes.
Read more from InsideCounsel.com [HERE].
Olive Branch Blog- I read an interesting article last year about women and decision-making.
Turns out that when stress levels are low and easily managed, men and women make decisions involving risk in a similar manner. They gather information, assess costs and benefits and choose a path of action.
This similarity takes a different turn when you throw them both in a pressure cooker. When stress levels are high, it turns out that men and women are quite different.
Read more [HERE].
Central African Republic
Nathalie Al-Zyoud- In the shadows of Bangui's National Forum, NGOs are doing the painstaking work of rebuilding CAR' social fabric. While at the national-level, delegates made police recommendations around such topics as peace and security, justice and reconciliation, governance, as well as social and economic development, at the community-level these problems are personal...Read more
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