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The definitive guide to learning effective skills for engaging in open and honest conversations about divisive issues from three professional mediators.When a conversation takes a turn into the sometimes uncomfortable and often contentious topics of race, religion, gender, sexuality, and politics, it can be difficult to know what to say or how to respond to someone you disagree with. Compassionate Conversations empowers us to transform these conversations into opportunities to bridge divides and mend relationships by providing the basic set of conflict resolution skills we need to be successful, including listening, reframing, and dealing with strong emotions. Addressing the long history of injury and pain for marginalized groups, the authors explore topics like social privilege, power dynamics, and, political correctness allowing us to be more mindful in our conversations.
About the Author
Diane Musho Hamilton is an award winning professional mediator, author, facilitator, and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She has been a practitioner of meditation for more than 30 years. Diane facilitates Big Mind Big Heart, a process developed to help elicit the insights of Zen in Western audiences. Diane is considered a pioneer in articulating the wisdom of an Integral Life Practice and has worked with Ken Wilber and the Integral Institute in Denver, Colorado, since 2004. She is also the co-founder of Two Arrows Zen, a center for Zen practice and study in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband Michael Mugaku Zimmerman. In 2012 she co-founded Integral Facilitator, her uniquely developmental approach to group facilitation mastery. Diane is a former rodeo queen and a mother to four children.
Diane is the author of Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution (Shambhala Publications) , and of The Zen of You and Me: A Guide to Getting Along with Just About Anyone (Shambhala Publications, March 2017.) She is also featured in The Hidden Lamp: Stories from Twenty-Five Centuries of Awakened Women (Wisdom Publications.)
