Author: Joan Chadbourne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981907673
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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By sharing their experiences, the authors hope to inspire others to engage in enriching conversations that enhance relationships. As the authors reflected on their life-changing interactions, they realized that those who engage in healing conversations experience a more satisfying connection and a greater sense of loving and being loved.
Author: Nance Guilmartin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787960195
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 351
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We're often faced with uncomfortable situations where we're at a loss for words. A friend calls to tell you she's lost her job. A colleague's test results confirm it: he has cancer. The neighbors-who are like family-are moving. Your best friend's mother has Alzheimer's. Your spouse's father suddenly dies; she didn't get to say goodbye. Can you help? Should you help? What would be useful? What kinds of boundaries do we respect or lower? How do we pause to listen between the lines of silence to comfort someone who is afraid or in pain? Can we ask for what would comfort us when we are the one having a rough time? And are we able to receive it with grace? Healing Conversations enables us to provide or ask for a new level of support when facing life's inevitable challenges, transitions, and losses-at work, at home, and in our community. It is a practical guide to help you step into someone else's shoes so that you can offer, ask for, or receive comfort. Reflections at the end of each chapter help you think more deeply about how to incorporate the principles of healing conversations and intentional kindness into your life.
Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
ISBN: 1642797553
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Brings to life the seven elements of how to have deep and fulfilling interactions so that people can connect in a world with many conversational obstacles. Conversation is the way human beings connect. Great friendships are defined by the way one speaks, listens, and flows through the joy of effortless conversation. As the divisions in culture deepen due to politics, generational misunderstanding, the complexity of gender, the struggle to be politically correct, and every other possible human condition, conversation is becoming more and more dangerous. Most people feel an ever-increasing need to be careful with their words. It may be good to be thoughtful of language, but this is a new kind of carefulness. The anxiety of culture is leading people to communicate less and that leads to isolation and divisiveness. Healing Conversations is a simple way to revolutionize communication. It offers practical help to allow readers to talk their way out of conflict and loneliness. Within Healing Conversations, Dave Roberts helps readers to learn, gain perspective, grow, accomplish real work, come together for a greater good, but even more, helps them to feel intimately connected to the people around them again through the power of conversation. “Roberts, lead pastor of Montrose Church in Montrose, Calif., explores in this insightful . . . debut a type of conversation called relational talking, which is characterized by the goals of hospitality, openness, and an eagerness to understand others.” —Publishers Weekly “Profound and practical! Healing Conversations is a chance to learn how to invite people to share their truest selves with us without our self-focused agendas and any need to be right.” —Debbie Payne, Producer, Director Cumulus Media
Author: Nance Guilmartin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470603550
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Whether it's the loss of a job, a marriage, or a life, in today's 24/7 world we're increasingly faced with uncomfortable situations where we don’t know what to say yet we're called upon to quickly respond -- online or in person. We may fumble, avoid contact, or simply walk away perplexed, thinking we have done a bad job of responding to our friends, family, neighbors, clients, and co-workers. How do we pause, listen, and offer comfort in those hard moments? Filled with touching stories, this practical guide helps us step into someone else's shoes so that we can empathetically learn how to respond in times of need. The revised compact edition includes a new introduction, index and short reflections at the end of each chapter to help readers become more comfortable and effective when offering or accepting comfort in their demanding lives.
Author: Veola Vazquez
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514003937
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Race complicates our relationships, even when we reject racism and seek to walk a better path together. How can we get our thinking—and our conversations—unstuck from entrenched patterns? In this book, four experts in psychology and social work present a model for how to build and deepen the cross-race relationships we want. The starting place, they testify, must be a biblical understanding of the problem of racial disunity, grounded in the grand narrative of Scripture, followed by practical insights about psychology and social behavior. This book is the culmination of professional—but also deeply personal—conversations the authors have had with each other, wrestling together over current events, their own stories, and their roles in the healing process. They combine biblical teachings with psychological science to help Christians develop the skills to discuss race and ethnicity. In each chapter, you will be guided through essential information, biblical examples, case studies, activities, and journaling exercises to prepare you to practice healing conversations. Using research from psychology, attachment theory, and emotionally focused therapy, this process will build your knowledge, self-awareness, other-awareness, and specific relational skills. Jesus embodied love, challenged injustice, welcomed those rejected by society, and engaged in healing conversations with everyone he encountered. The insights and practices in Healing Conversations on Race will help Christians grow in Christlikeness and follow his example.
Author: Nance Guilmartin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0787966940
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Book Description
Whether it's the loss of a job, a marriage, or a life, in today's 24/7 world we're increasingly faced with uncomfortable situations where we don’t know what to say yet we're called upon to quickly respond -- online or in person. We may fumble, avoid contact, or simply walk away perplexed, thinking we have done a bad job of responding to our friends, family, neighbors, clients, and co-workers. How do we pause, listen, and offer comfort in those hard moments? Filled with touching stories, this practical guide helps us step into someone else's shoes so that we can empathetically learn how to respond in times of need. The revised compact edition includes a new introduction, index and short reflections at the end of each chapter to help readers become more comfortable and effective when offering or accepting comfort in their demanding lives.
Author: Neville Symington
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429910339
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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How is it that someone can be healed of mental illness through talking with another person? This is what Neville Symington examines in this book. He believes that a person in their innermost being registers the essential character of the other person. The senses detect the outer contours of the personality but a deeper form of knowledge connects directly to the other person's inner being. Healing comes about if the inner world of the one is guided by principles that transcend the particular and this fosters a giving-ness in the one and the other. The egoism in each is then subsumed into a higher unity which results in a new subjective understanding. Personal understanding is a sign that a new ordering of the inner ingredients of the personality has taken place; that the form of being in the one has the capacity to generate in the other this new way of being. The author explores this fundamental reality that underlies human communication and teases out how this brings about healing.
Author: David Roberts
Publisher: Morgan James Faith
ISBN: 9781642797541
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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Through compelling stories, Healing Conversations brings to life the seven elements of deep, fulfilling conversations and shows how to connect healthily to awaken healing within these conversations.
Author: Mirriam Musonda Salati-Oppong
Publisher: Mirriam Kangwa Salati-Oppong
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Embark on an interstellar odyssey with Alex and Maya, two souls entwined in a cosmic love story that defies the boundaries of space and time. In a universe teeming with celestial wonders and challenges, the couple navigates the vast expanse, facing planetary triumphs, galactic serendipity, and cosmic reckonings that test the very fabric of their connection. As they traverse the stars, their love story unfolds amidst intergalactic promises, climactic confrontations, and a cosmic culmination that propels them into the heart of an eternal bond. Through stellar redemption, galactic celebrations, and celestial enlightenment, Alex and Maya's journey becomes a testament to the enduring power of love—a love that transcends the cosmos itself.
Author: Kenneth J Gergen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1529786614
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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This fully updated fourth edition of Gergen’s An Invitation to Social Construction introduces you to a key theoretical movement in contemporary social science through a wide range of multidisciplinary examples. The fourth edition includes: wider consideration of contemporary global challenges, increased coverage of media, digital culture, and relevant political issues, updated real-world examples of social constructionist theory in action, in research, education, therapy, organizations, and peace building. This book brings together complex theories that inform and critically build upon social constructionism, such as narratology, deconstruction, dialogism, positivism, and post-structuralism, in a way that is accessible for students and researchers alike. It is a vital resource for those studying social psychology and critical social psychology who are looking for a comprehensive guide to one of the core topics in the field. Kenneth J Gergen is Senior Research Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, and the President of the Taos Institute.
