FEBRUARY 20, 2007
REFLECTIONS Hello Friends! It’s good to be in touch. A great deal seems to be happening in the world and in my world since I was last in touch. I have no doubt many of you are facing similar challenges. It seems whatever resolution skills I have are tested everyday by the seeming disconnect between my own life and what I see around me. I have a great deal of gratitude for the quality of my life – health, friends, intimacy, good work. Yet I rail at the current political situation form what I try to hold as a principled, non partisan perspective, albeit I’ve been in the liberal democratic camp forever. The arrogance of being right in the face of evidence to the contrary, a mindset projecting fear and evil, a refusal to speak with perceived enemies, a refusal to listen to the message of the last election, going your own way even though wise voices suggest otherwise, looking to balance budgets by cutting programs that take care of the truly needy and the audacity to say about a co-equal branch of government “they can’t stop us now.” That's what I see. On a recent Sunday morning I went to the service at Glide Memorial in When I received the scenes from ordinary life in http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html I thought of similar scenes I saw of NEXUS FOR CHANGE On March 22-23 I will be participating at the Nexus for Change Conference at Last Tuesday a full page add appeared in The New York Times for The World Council for New Thinking. www.worldcouncilfornewthinking.org It is sponsored by The Edward deBono Foundation. If you are not familiar with the breadth of his thinking you might get to know him. The premise is Einstein’s notion that we will not think our way out of the messes we are in with the same thinking that got us here. Go to the website and sign up if you are moved. Perhaps it’s because of increased focus but I am very pleased that in the last month I have seen a great increase around the climate change dialogue. It seems that the conversation has shifted from “do we have a problem” to “how bad is it and what can we do about it?” Yesterday I was at a crowning event of AAAS (American Association for Advancement Science) a Town Hall meeting in PS: Please keep sending those venues for me to tell the “An Inconvenient Truth” story! On April 4 I will have the honor of speaking to the third year class at BECOMING a RESOLUTIONARY II Now that I have completed a very well received pilot I am ready to offer another three month virtual learning experience. Please email me at ResolutionWorks@msn.com for details. Stewart Levine is a resolutionary. He is a truly gifted man and his course is an effort to share his unique gifts with others. Being a resolutionary requires more than simply learning a new set of skills in communication, it requires something from you….call it an “attitude of resolution”. If you can provide that, he can do the rest. – Greg Hayne, consultant, “apprentice” resolutionary. Stewart’s Resolutionary training course is one of the finest and most fulfilling bodies of work I have participated in. Consultant This course provides a new framework within which to understand conflict. If you are a professional who deals with conflicts between people who are clients or people you manage, this course will vastly expand your effectiveness in helping people truly resolve and transcend many conflicts. Ed Rholl. Attorney and Educator. He gives you the tools to make identifying, understanding, and resolving conflicts as natural as breathing. Further, his framework for successful agreements reduces the miscommunications and tensions that often create conflict, in the first place. Kurt Conrad, management consultant. AMERICAN MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION (AMA) I recently shared the podium with a seasoned AMA executive, Mo Cayer. On January 26 we delivered a Webinar on what is often a frightful year-end / year-begin event – Employee Evaluations. We used my agreement template as one framework / guide for structuring the outcome of the process – a clear agreement for the following year. They initially expected about 750 people. I was all set to do my part from the comfort of my office in CA. About five days before the event I was asked to come to NY. It seemed enrollment was going through the roof. We ended up with more than three and as many as 4,000 people on the call. Those numbers do get your attention. FOR LAWYERS On March 6 I will be speaking to a group of Corporate Lawyers in NY about conflict prevention and resolution as part of the Legal Department Purchasing Consortium conference. www.lawdepartmentconsortium.com THE SECRET www.THESECRET.TV The activity of our mind is thought. We are always acting because we are always thinking. At all times we are either drawing things to us or we are pushing them away from us. In the ordinary individual this process goes on without his ever knowing it consciously, but ignorance of the law will excuse no one from its effects. Ernest Holmes, Creative Mind and Success COMIC RELIEF Thanks John Renesh. This is cute and true. http://www.globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml Till next time!!! Stewart Stewart Levine, Resolutionary Counselor, Mediator, Facilitator, Trainer Author: Getting To Resolution The Book of Agreement 510-777-1166 510-814-1010cell
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