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May 2023
Why you should ask questions
“When you understand every opinion is a vision loaded with personal history, you will start to understand that all judgement is confession.” Nikola…
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Listening was the key to ending the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland
George Mitchell, former Senate majority leader and special envoy to Northern Ireland, just visited Ireland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of what…
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Don’t engage in adversarial listening
I heard this recommendation in a speech given by Parker Palmer, a Quaker author and speaker. He views it as one step we can take to help heal our world…
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Take care of yourself
The health of your relationship is affected by your own health. If you do things to take care of yourself, you will have more good energy to put into…
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Karen Tibbals
April 2023
Define furniture
This suggestion might help if you get in a situation where someone asks you to define what a woman or man is. As the topic of transgenderism has become…
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Conflicts can be due to a mismatch of conflict styles
Some time ago, I wrote about conflict styles. Here is a link to that newsletter, if you want to brush up on them. I recently was one of a team brought…
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AI is going to make misinformation worse
How to combat it in your conversations
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The times they are a changing.....
I just heard this surprising arrangement of the Bob Dylan song, and it made me think about change. The degree of comfort with change is one of the core…
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Repeat what they just said
This easy tip comes from a friend of mine, who used to run a program for kids. He dealt with thousands of parents, who sometimes said some shocking…
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Karen Tibbals
March 2023
Diagnose this situation
What went wrong?
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You’re going to hell!
In 2022, I saw this post on Medium on how to respond when someone tells you that you are going to go to hell. It’s a subscriber only post, so you may…
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