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Welcome to Let's Talk About Conflict, where we explore the essential skills for navigating challenging conversations and managing ourselves during difficult moments. This podcast is to help our listeners build skills where they feel more capable of managing themselves within a conflict—and maybe others!

I’m your host, Lynne Nash, and today our episode is special. My conversation with author John Marks, previous best selling author, covers conflict resolution, building plans to avoid conflict, and the steps it takes to build a lasting process.

Through 11 working principles, Marks demonstrates the way his NGO, Search for Meaning—or “Search”—was started, maintained, and continues today even though he has stepped down from its leadership.

I firmly believe Need drives Change—so conflict is unavoidable. Here are some ways Marks as an applied visionary has worked to go through conflict and not avoid it. Listen to my conversation with John regarding things that went right, wrong, and everything in between. We will both encourage you again not to avoid conflict, but look for the skills to manage the conflict through time tested strategies.

Book: From Vision to Action: Remaking the World through Social Entrepreneurship. By John Marks

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Welcome to Season 3 of Let's Talk About Conflict, where we explore the essential skills for navigating challenging conversations and managing ourselves during difficult moments. This podcast is to help our listeners build skills where they feel more capable of managing themselves within a conflict—and maybe others!

I’m your host, Lynne Nash, and today we're tackling a challenge that many of us face - dealing with toxic or difficult people in our lives, especially when avoiding them isn't an option.

Whether it's a colleague at work, a family member, or someone else we're required to interact with regularly, these relationships can drain our energy and test our conflict management skills to their limits.

What can compassion and empathy teach us when interacting with toxic people? Do you know the difference? Can you remember your personal value when dealing with the large demands made by toxic people?

This episode explores practical strategies for protecting your boundaries and maintaining your peace while navigating these challenging relationships and discuss how to recognize when you're being pulled into toxic patterns of interaction.

Study: Friedrich Schiller University: Toxic People stimuli study
Book: Holding the Calm by Hesha Abrams

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Welcome to another episode of Let's Talk About Conflict, where we explore the essential skills for navigating challenging conversations and managing ourselves during difficult moments. This podcast is to help our listeners build skills which should help in managing themselves within a conflict—and maybe others!

I'm your host, Lynne Nash, and today we're exploring a powerful tool that's often overlooked in conflict resolution - silence.

Silence—can be incredibly powerful and holds a great amount of value in interactions. It's ironic that on a show about talking through conflict, we're focusing on the art of not speaking at all.

We'll dive into how strategic silence and genuine, active listening can transform heated moments, why our instinct to fill every pause might be sabotaging our negotiations, and how learning to embrace those quiet spaces can reveal solutions to conflict we might have otherwise missed.

Sometimes, the most impactful and useful thing we can say is nothing at all.

Book: The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Businessworld with Kindness by Thaler & Koval.

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