Managing Conflict Mindfully

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Managing Conflict Mindfully

All of us, including the most elevated, sometimes make unwise decisions related to conflict and difficult situations. Such choices can lead to missed opportunities, suboptimal agreements, and impaired relationships, and even to the fear, hatred, anxiety, polarization, and violence that infuse and infect much of today's world.

In Managing Conflict Mindfully: Don't Believe Everything You Think, Leonard Riskin-law professor, mediator, and mindfulness teacher-helps us understand how and why this happens and what we can do about it, through a new framework that integrates negotiation, mindfulness, and internal family systems. Drawing on decades of practice, research, and teaching, this book extends Riskin's influential writings and brings new insights to accepted ideas about negotiation. It could help anyone deal better with others, or with themselves.

 

EVENTS

Book Talk: A Conversation between Author and Professor Len Riskin and Professor Dan Shapiro
December 14, 2023 • 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CDT (Zoom)
In conversation with Dan Shapiro, founder of Harvard’s International Negotiation Program and expert in emotion and identity-generated conflict, Professor Riskin will walk us through a new framework that integrates negotiation, mindfulness, and internal family systems. In doing so, Len brings new insights to accepted ideas about negotiation, insights that could help anyone deal better with others, or with themselves. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

 

Certificate Program: Negotiation for Professionals: Powerful Methods to Boost Your Success
July 19-21, 2023 • Northwestern University Chicago Campus
Learn innovative negotiation tools from two of the world's leading negotiation experts—Professor Leonard Riskin of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Professor Daniel Shapiro of the Harvard Negotiation Project. Learn more about the certificate program and register. 

 

Book Talk: Managing Conflict Mindfully: Don't Believe Everything You Think
June 26, 2023 • 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. EDT (Zoom)
Presented by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and the Center on Negotiation, Mediation, and Restorative Justice at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. Registration: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4nJ0iAuKQsypAi8bdEecKw.

 

 

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RELATED READINGS

5 Reasons You Crack Under Pressure, The Harvard Gazette. Lamb, A. (2023, June 28).

7 Breathing Exercises for a Balanced Mind and Body, Mindful Leader. (2023, July 11).

Meditation is More Than Either Stress Relief or Enlightenment, Vox. Jarow, Oshan (2023, August 22).

 

VIDEOS

Len Riskin Interview With Robert Benjamin ⋅ MEDIATE.COM

 

Len Riskin Interview with Alyson Carrel and Daniel Shapiro • PON Live! Book Talk