Want Peace in Personal Conflict? Improve Your Attitude! http://insanelyserene.com/?p=1887

Check out this short article: Why is “fighting” good for healthy relationships?  http://bit.ly/z1jOJ0

Nice piece about working with emotion during divorce. Http://huff.to/x9Q2LW

Divorce during the holidays makes for a trying time: http://bit.ly/vq3Gwn

Student helps solve classmates’ conflict using mediation: http://bit.ly/vCJg6N

What it’s like to be a collaborative lawyer and mediator: http://bit.ly/hG11zr

And last but not least, one idea for conflict resolution from Jimmy Kimmel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_DbBSpu_1Y

Why mediated divorce makes sense in today’s uncertain financial times: http://huff.to/tmtTx5

Five tips for a successful mediation: http://bit.ly/sHcAQG

Seven tips for getting through that dreaded conversation you’ve been avoiding: http://bit.ly/uAf0Gp

Divorce in a recession leads to more collaboration: http://bit.ly/s0RrwG

Photographer makelessnoise http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

Researchers have begun to learn that physical contact can communicate even more emotion than nonverbal contact. 

We’ve long known the benefits and detriments of nonverbal signals that communicate our emotions. Now we are learning that physical contact can almost immediately change how people think and behave. 

Studies have shown: 

• Students who receive a supportive touch on the back or arm from a teacher are nearly twice as likely to volunteer in a class
• Patients who receive a sympathetic touch from a doctor have the impression that the visit lasted twice as long as it did
• Sports teams tend to perform more successfully when the players make physical contact with each other more frequently (i.e. high-fives, chest bumps, and hugs)

It is believed that physical contact reduces stress by releasing oxytocin (a hormone that helps create a sensation of trust) and by reducing levels of the hormone cortisol. 

In periods of conflict, how can a supportive or sympathetic touch communicate your emotions in a way that changes the conflict?

http://www.mediate.com/articles/lutringerR1.cfm?nl=245#

http://training-time.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-workplace-conflict-can-be-positive.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114068612

The Chanukah candles are to remind us that we are to spread light as far as we can. I recently read a suggestion from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook that we should each look at ourselves as a living Chanukah candle capable of spreading our own inner light in the world.

Each night of Chanukah I’ll be posting one of my favorite Chanukah songs as a reminder that we each have the ability to spread our inner light and be a hero to someone else in the world.

The Chanukah candles are to remind us that we are to spread light as far as we can. I recently read a suggestion from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook that we should each look at ourselves as a living Chanukah candle capable of spreading our own inner light in the world.

Each night of Chanukah I’ll be posting one of my favorite Chanukah songs as a reminder that we each have the ability to spread our inner light and be a hero to someone else in the world.

The Chanukah candles are to remind us that we are to spread light as far as we can. I recently read a suggestion from Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook that we should each look at ourselves as a living Chanukah candle capable of spreading our own inner light in the world.

Each night of Chanukah I’ll be posting one of my favorite Chanukah songs as a reminder that we each have the ability to spread our inner light and be a hero to someone else in the world.