Hello - **** It feels like forever since I've been touch. I do apologize to all of you who have found value, hope, and inspiration in what at times seems like an insane world.*A great deal has happened since I last wrote. I am very happy to be writing from the left coast. After three years in Washington I decided it was*time to go home*to*the San Francisco Bay area. I am very pleased to be back here, especially when friends say "welcome home."**
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**** I was so excited to be heading back*I*may have set the solo cross country driving record for my age bracket.*63 hours from DC to San Francisco is pretty good for a 57 year old.*I left on a Wednesday at noon and arrived just before midnight on Friday. It was a great trip. We live in a physically beautiful country. I found the*vistas in West Virginia, Wyoming, and CA particularly inspiring.*
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**** Part of the reason for moving back to where I find the "climate" more to my liking was the desire to refocus my efforts to working with individual clients.*I won't be giving up the organizational*work I've come to enjoy and expect will continue to come through*personal clients who want to bring me into their organizations. I will*be focusing my*outreach on individuals, although I am still working on a number of national initiatives like the middle east and other spots that can use help building democratic infrastructure and the rule of law.
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**** I recently started using a coach*to help me strategize about next steps.* When he looked*at "all" of my materials*he pointed out that glaringly absent was*mention of my own story - my*personal experiences around relationship, family, money, and*organizational life that drove me in the direction I've taken. He knew that*I had to be driven by my own personal experience with conflict. What surfaced in our discussions and my inquiry was a great deal of insight and reflection on some of the pain that unresolved conflict has caused in a number of areas in my life.*These revelations have moved*me*in the direction of helping individuals resolve and prevent the pain and cost of their conflict. They have also moved me full circle to where this journey of "agreement and resolution" began.*
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*****As I reestablish the*local portion of my practice in the San Francisco Bay Area the focus of my work will be on:
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**** >*PreMarriage Agreements, Marriage Conflict and Divorce
Mediation (Marriage is used in the generic sense to include
civil unions)
**** > Partnership Formation, Conflict and
Dissolution*******************
**** > Forming, Dissolving and Resolving Conflict in*Employment
Situations
**** > Building Organizational Cultures of Agreement and Resolution
or Start-Ups, Mergers, Business, NGO's and Government.*
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**** How You Can Help -*
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*****> Pass this message along to people in your network*who:
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**** **...can*benefit*from preventing or resolving a costly and
painful conflict*
****** ...are embarking on a "collaboration" that could use
an "agreement for results"
**** ...complain about their organizational culture* *
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> Think of me when your organization (business, community,
religious, charitable) needs a speaker*who will both inspire
and provide practical tools
*** > Email and say hello*************
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**** SPECIAL OFFER
**** > As a way of introducing my work and jumpstarting my practice I am offering my work at the astonishingly low rate of*$1000 for a half-day educational program. I hope you see this as an offer you can't refuse.
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**** GREAT NEWS:*
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* > One of my favorite clients, Gail Johnson from*Sierra*Adoption Services, contacted me last week to let me know she has high hopes for a grant proposal she has just submitted that will*focus on providing teenagers with permanent homes and families. She wants me to do the "partnering work"*between Sierra and the government agencies they will be partnering with as well as*the collaboration training for her staff.*
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**** > I have just been contacted by Dean David Link, former Dean*and Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame Law School, and founder of the International Center for Healing and the Law. The Center is funded by the Fetzer Institute who has been a great supporter of progressive legal reform. One of the Centers first projects is to write a book about the progressive*movements within the legal field. I am honored to report that I have been asked to write the chapter on*Mediation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution.*I am flattered to be part of this project as it includes many people*whose reputations I admire and respect. **************
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* UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: > Sept 12-14 San Diego, Three Day Public Workshop.*** For
detailed information www.consultingsolutions.org > Sept. 22-24 Dallas, Featured Speaker, International
Conference on Work Teams www.workteams.unt.edu > Sept 29-30 New York, Featured Speaker, Alternatives to
Healthcare Litigation www.worldrg.com
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UPCOMING TELECLASSES
> Six weekly one hour Sessions beginning Thursday Sept. 11 at 6 Eastern Time. Sponsored by www.NewStoryTel.com ** NEW WEBSITES: www.StewartLevine.com
www.StopConflictNow.com NEW EBOOK "Stop Conflict Now" Ebook puts all my best,
proven conflict resolution strategies at
your fingertips, instantly.
NEW INTERVIEW: www.SuccessssShow.com/Guests/Stewart_Levine.htm
I look forward to the leasure. I'll be in touch very soon with a regular edition of "Resolutionary Ideas."
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Stewart Levine www.StopConflictNow.com
www.StewartLevine.com
www.ResolutionWorks.org Author: The Book of Agreement
Getting to Resolution
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