This book is a comprehensive approach to assertiveness and its role in communication. The author, Michelle Brenner, draws on extensive experience as a mediator and conflict resolution consultant. The book offers a framework for understanding the history of assertiveness as well as the role that assertiveness plays in communication. By introducing a holistic paradigm and a set of tools for practical engagement, 'Conscious Connectivity' reveals ways for creating dignity in conversation. Dignity that relates to the interaction of cultural and personal moral perception. With contributions from...

Conversations On Compassion brings together the science and art of compassion. It covers a wide range of views that are both current for the 21st century context as well as traditional understandings that have been the core of cultural heritage for many people. The book includes contributors who bring richness and cultural diversity to a subject that is well worth practicing.