Everything Is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution [Paperback]

Using mindfulness to work with and resolve the inevitable interpersonal conflicts that arise in all areas of life.

Wonderfully engaging, perceptive, and wise. —William L. Ury, co-author ofGetting to Yes

Conflict is going to be part of your life—as long as you have relationships, hold down a job, or have dry cleaning to be picked up. Bracing yourself against it won’t make it go away, but if you approach it consciously, you can navigate it in a way that not only honors everyone involved but makes it a source of deep insight as well. Seasoned mediator Diane Hamilton provides the skill set you need to engage conflict with wisdom and compassion, and even—sometimes—to be grateful for it. She teaches how to:

• Cultivate the mirror-like quality of attention as your base
• Identify the three personal conflict styles and determine which one you fall into
• Recognize the three fundamental perspectives in any conflict situation and learn to inhabit each of them
• Turn conflicts in families, at work, and in every kind of interpersonal relationship into win-win situations There is perhaps no greater challenge in our personal relationships than conflict.  In this wonderfully engaging, perceptive, and wise little book, Diane Musho Hamilton shows us how to negotiate this delicate terrain with skillful means. —William L. Ury, co-author ofGetting to Yes

A groundbreaking, creative account of how the qualities of nonattachment, equanimity, and flexibility of mind that are cultivated in meditation practice can help inform and enliven the vial work of mediating human conflicts and misunderstandings. —Jan Chozen Bays, author ofHow to Train a Wild Elephant

A wonderful, down-to-earth, and very useful book on conflict resolution.  Read it professionally, read it as a layperson, read it for work, read it for relationships, read it for your owlƒ!