In any mediation, the central objective is to resolve a dispute in a way that both (or all) parties can accept. While negotiation strategies, legal positions, and financial considerations all play ...

One of the most profound times in the life of my church, the Tallahassee Fellowship, was when we decided to share with each other our life stories. Each member was invited to take a Sunday to share ...

Skilled communicators pay careful attention to all points of view and listen closely to find the problem at the core of the issue. In a course titled The Power of Listening, participants will learn ...

Source: Carl Pickhardt Ph. D. Listening is the all-purpose human relations skill. Specifically (by what it enables) and symbolically (what it signifies), listening cements relationships by allowing an ...

When we’re learning a foreign language, making sense of what we hear is the first step toward fluency. It sounds obvious, but until recently, we didn’t know much about how listening works. New ...

One of my favorite expressions has always been, “we have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” This adage may be nowhere more important than during a mediation.