Brains On Purposeā¢tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-13215822016-05-12T19:28:50-06:00Neuroscience and conflict resolution
Stephanie West Allen, JD, in collaboration with Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MDTypePadMay edition of MINDFULNESS RESEARCH MONTHLY now postedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01bb08fda11a970d2016-05-12T19:28:50-06:002016-05-12T19:28:50-06:00This month's edition of Mindfulness Research Monthly contains: 26 Interventions 29 Associations 11 Methods 15 Reviews 2 Trials Click to read the current edition.StephanieWestAllenNewest issue of MINDFULNESS RESEARCH MONTHLY now availabletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01b8d1ab527a970c2016-03-08T17:16:56-07:002016-03-08T17:16:56-07:00The current edition Of Mindfulness Research Monthly contains 21 Interventions 18 Associations 6 Methods 10 Reviews 1 Trial. Click to read it now.StephanieWestAllenThe billable hour: Damaging to your brain, detrimental to life satisfaction, and destructive to client trust?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01b8d1a230ac970c2016-02-20T12:03:39-07:002016-03-03T18:25:29-07:00In just over a week, you may listen to an exceptional and educational interview about the adverse effects of the billable hour on your brain, your life, your clients. [Link to the program is now below.] And you will be able to phone in with questions and comments. The event is sponsored by Purposeful Planning Institute as part of its...StephanieWestAllenDo you have a conflict habit? A reminder of the role of values in effective conflict resolutiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01b8d16e5f1e970c2015-10-29T06:01:11-06:002015-10-29T06:01:11-06:00When a person affirms his or her deepest values, the process of conflict resolution can be easier, and often quicker. In fact, most other activities can be facilitated by affirming your values (what is called self-affirmation), whether it be running, or recharging, or writing. However, for many of us, our habits can get in the way. We all have seen...StephanieWestAllenThe role of the conflict professional's self-reflection in effective conflict resolutiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01bb0864085d970d2015-08-15T07:22:19-06:002015-08-15T07:21:30-06:00What is the role of self-awareness and self-reflection in effective conflict resolution? To hear a teleconference on that topic, click here. The title of the teleconference is "Inside Out: How Conflict Professionals Can Use Self-Reflection to Help Their Clients" and it features long-time mediator and lawyer Gary Friedman.StephanieWestAllenCurrent edition of MINDFULNESS RESEARCH MONTHLY is now availabletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01b7c78628ab970b2015-05-06T17:32:38-06:002015-05-06T17:33:59-06:00May's edition of Mindfulness Research Monthly includes 19 Interventions 14 Associations 11 Methods 8 Reviews 2 Trials. Click to read the new edition.StephanieWestAllenThat's not how it happened! Let me tell you the true storytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01bb07fea7e1970d2015-03-06T07:52:42-07:002015-03-06T07:52:42-07:00How can two or more people sincerely, earnestly, and confidently have such widely divergent versions of events? As mediators, we often have heard stories from parties in which the facts are conflicting and yet no one seems to be deliberately deceiving. Research continues to show us our memories are malleable and pliant so we are not surprised at the inconsistency....StephanieWestAllenNewest edition of MINDFULNESS RESEARCH MONTHLY now availabletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01b8d0e2bb26970c2015-03-04T10:24:48-07:002015-03-04T10:25:40-07:00The March edition of Mindfulness Research Monthly is now posted for your reading pleasure. It includes 50 new cites: 15 Interventions 15 Associations 9 Methods 11 Reviews.StephanieWestAllenAre you or your clients remembering that story accurately? Some ways to checktag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01b8d0d44aa4970c2015-02-11T07:41:15-07:002015-02-11T07:41:15-07:00I recommend to you this excellent article written by the authors of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us. They offer 10 ways to check the accuracy of our very malleable and faulty memory. Journalists know that when they hear something from one source, they should corroborate it with independent sources before reporting it. The science of memory has...StephanieWestAllenNew edition of MINDFULNESS RESEARCH MONTHLY now availabletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01bb07d9790a970d2015-01-13T15:44:41-07:002015-01-13T15:44:41-07:00The January issue offers 12 Interventions 17 Associations 7 Methods 13 Reviews 1 TrialStephanieWestAllenBrain overclaim syndrome: Can I convince you I know something by citing neuroscience?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01b8d0ac83fa970c2014-12-18T13:12:49-07:002014-12-18T13:15:01-07:00Are so many mediators citing neuroscience these days because it is cool? Hot? Fashionable? I don't know. That the science being cited is often either inaccurate or not helpful to conflict resolution is sometimes a tad disturbing. Even though I have blogged about it before, I had forgotten about the phrase "brain overclaim syndrome" until reading this book review from...StephanieWestAllenAre you sure that's what happened? Most conflicts are part fiction, part distortion, part deadtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cad7153ef01bb07bd217b970d2014-12-05T07:29:42-07:002014-12-05T07:29:42-07:00When we recall something that occurred in the past, our recollection is not accurate like a video camera. Some if not much of our memory is fabricated. Our fuzzy, faulty memory has been covered before both at this blog and in many books and articles: the memory's shiftiness is by now notorious. So why I am writing about it again?...StephanieWestAllen