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Whether at home or at work, in intimate conversations or public interactions, most of us rely on a set of defensive verbal maneuvers we learned early to protect ourselves from insult, injury or judgment. Having been wounded by words, we often decide that to be open is to be vulnerable and weak. So we close down, build walls.
Unfortunately, whether our defensive habits are passive or aggressive, we only succeed in creating power struggles, and the cost is immense. Conflicts involving defensiveness erode our self-esteem, damage our personal relationships, eat away at our productivity, cripple our ability to work with others, hamper the success of our organizations, and, on a larger scale, undermine our efforts to establish prosperous communities and a peaceful world.
In Taking the War Out of Our Words, Sharon Ellison offers a new paradigm that she calls Powerful Non-Defensive Communication.™ Utilizing a remarkable blend of honesty and vulnerability, the techniques presented in this book increase the odds of being met with an open response and gaining cooperation, resolution, and healing.
Taking the War Out of Our Words by Sharon Ellison
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