Bøger af Sandra Boston

This is an expanded version of the text bookk for an eight session training in basic communication skills. The course begins with identifying cultural challenges to being conscious about what we say when trouble arises. The skills cover how to stand your ground in conflict, bring curiosity, create understanding, and find results that satisfy both parties, or manage conflict that doesn't resolve with respect. It includes how to take a non-negotiable stand (as in parent discipline or teachers following rules) in a way that minimizes damage to the relationship. Based on Thoma Gordon's Parent Effectivness Training, "In the end, all we have with each other is a relationship." The author says "How we communicate shapes the course of our lives."

This is the saga of a woman who realizes early in her life that if she follows her own drumbeat she is going to encounter resistance from those closest to her who want her to be more "normal." As she listens to her inner leadings and says "Yes," her life journey takes her first to Jordan and Lebanon, then after college and seminary on to Ghana, Malawi, Nicaragua, China, Bali, Uganda, Russia, Palestine and beyond--into the homes and hearts of people of consciousness the world around. This is the story of what she learned, how she was changed, and what she has to teach about transforming painful family relationships, religious traditions, political struggles for justice, and cultural scripts that hold women back from the lives they want to be living. "Sandra Boston creates a whirlwind of activity and inspiration that sweeps you up in its gust as she tells the story of her travels around the world and into the depths of the human heart. Be prepared to ask the question somewhere along the ride: "What am I doing with my life that will create positive change in the world?"- for, indeed, that is what Sandra's life is all about." -Gaella Elwell, business owner, Waldorf teacher, friend "There is a clan of women-Vandana Shiva, Eve Ensler, Joanna Macy-warriors who have long refused to accept the life-destroying paradigm of our culture. Through their work, through their living, they have continually pushed the boundaries-creating images and visions for a life-sustaining world. Sandra Boston is a part of that clan. Read these pages. Every breath she takes is for all of us." -Reverend Georganne Greene, Unitarian Universalist minister. Pilgrim Warrior graduate Sandra Boston, MSW, M.Ed., has been self-employed doing work she loves for most of her adult life. She taught communication skills and conflict resolution for forty years based in Thomas Gordon's Parent Effectiveness Training, Gandhian nonviolence, Marshal Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication, Arnold Mindell's Process Work, and Margaret Paul's Inner Bonding among many others. Sandra founded The Pilgrim Warrior Training in 1985, The Women's Leadership Institute in 1996, and The Conscious Communication Institute in 2000. Today she maintains a psychotherapy practice, and does board and staff trainings. She has worked internationally in Canada, Switzerland, Uganda and Russia. She has published a CD and songbook of 54 songs and chants for women's ritual. She is the author of a self-published book, Aiming Your Mind: Strategies and Skills for Conscious Communication as well as a teacher's manual. Sandra lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. www.ccitraining.org

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Each chapter corresponds to a class in Basic Skills for Conscious Communication. Audio of each class is available at www.ccitraining.org. Learn to stand your ground in conflict, neither retreating nor arguing. Your your tool box to address any kind of conflict. Be curious, willing to learn, hold the other's best interest at heart as well as your own. Know the difference between needs and solutions and what to do next when trouble arises.

Enjoy the ride with Sandra as she takes you along the winding roads of her exuberant and purposeful life path. In these writings she shares her heart stories as a youth, parent, woman's leader, community activist, change-maker and reflective elder. From bouncy garden rhymes to pertinent political and environmental pieces, she shares her rich life fully and freely. - Gaella Elwell is a creative writing teacher, storyteller and business owner. Sandra follows her soul's light from "The Great Nap" to the "Altar of Beauty," naming lessons of joy and loss. This compilation of poetry is a conversation with Spirit. Under the "guardian tree" she drinks in life's blessings and transforms its messages in dedication to her children and grandchildren. Soul Song will lift you up and set you down gently onto the path that we all are asked to walk. -Cheryl Fox, Mediation trainer and community activist In /Soul Song, Sandra is playing--with images, insights, journal entries, poems, sitting on the back porch--and letting it all, and I mean all, enter her. Responding with joy and enthusiasm, she blooms it inside herself, and in this book shares it with us. -Mary Clare Powell Poet (Things Owls Ate, Academic Scat, and Box of Water)and Professor, Lesley University,