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NVC Mediation
John brings over 6 years of experience
mediating conflicts with the NVC approach,
including mediating between Afghan tribal
elders following 9/11. NVC mediation focuses
on connection before outcome, and outcomes
emerging from connection. This process allows
each party to trust they have been heard and
understood to their satisfaction by the other
party - heard not only as to their "story",
but heard as to the underlying human needs
that have not been met in the conflict. With
this connection present, the process moves
to collaborative problem solving.
The process also can include separate pre-mediation
interviews with each party; and in multi-party
and stakeholder conflicts, there are sometimes
smaller mediations between sub groupings of
parties involved, leading up to a whole group
mediation.
Personal Conflict Coaching
In a one-on-one coaching format, John supports
people to use NVC skills to return to presence
and self-connection when in negative reaction,
and effectively communicate and resolve conflict
with others. These skills are a practice of
mindful awareness, dropping out of the mind's
reactive patterning into somatic (body) experiencing,
and conscious connection with universal qualities
of human care, integrity, and well being.
It is then listening, expressing, and acting
from this place of internal centeredness and
ground.
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"If I were to summarize
in one sentence the single most important principle I have
learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would
be this: Seek
first to understand, then to be understood. This principle
is the key to effective interpersonal communication."
Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
"We've all had those perfect moments, when things come
together in an almost unbelievable way. Over the years
my curiosity has grown, particularly about how these experiences
occur collectively within a group or team of
people. I have come to see this as the most subtle territory
of leadership, creating conditions for 'predictable miracles.'"
Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner
Path of Leadership
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