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CONFLICT RESOLUTION & RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT... … Appropriate Resolutions™ for home, work, community, and everywhere in between. |
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© 1998-2008 Joseph Ravick and Appropriate Resolutions™ |
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And by the way… How do you tell the difference between the staff and the inmates at a psychiatric hospital?
J The patients get better and leave. J Not every one of the patients thinks he is God. J The staff have the keys! |
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WE ALL HAVE CHOICES...
We all have choices, especially when the 'conflict monster' enters the room. What studies and experience have also confirmed is that emotional maturity is required to generate alternatives to disputes and alienation. I love Jean Vanier's reference to what many of us strive to achieve; "Compassion is maturity and maturity is acceptance. Maturity is precisely the acceptance of yourself with your own flaws, as well as others with their flaws. Maturity, then, is to discover who we are." Socrates said, "Know thyself." That remains a fundamental need, especially when in conflict, including, if not especially, internal conflict.
If you care about resolving differences you have with another, don't give in to compulsions which take you to a place where you might not want to go; that place is 'DISPUTE-VILLE' ! (if you'll pardon my 60's jargon) |
