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ACR Conference

Next week is the annual Association for Conflict Resolution conference – Julia and I will be involved in a number of events associated with the conference.

I will moderate a panel entitled, “ODR Tools for Bringing Parties Together,” for which several of my NMB colleagues will demonstrate ODR technology that we routinely use to work with parties.

At the Silent Auction, I will be on the block, offering an hour of ODR consulting to the lucky bidder 😉

I’ll be at the Authors’ Corner to flog copies of ODR Theory and Practice.

I’ll be at the Conflict Resolution Quarterly annual editorial board meeting.

And I’ll stand by and be impressed by Julia’s presentation on “Conflict, Space, and Movement.”

08
Sep 2012
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Yoga in Conflict Zones

The Washington Post recently carried an article about yoga teachers from the Washington, DC, area working with groups in the Occupied Territory of Palestine to reduce the pervasive stress of living in a long-term conflict environment.  (The article, “DC  Teachers Offer Yoga to Combat the Stresses of Conflict-Ridden Ramallah,” can be found at Yoga.)

My partner in Holistic Solutions, Inc. (and in all other things), Julia Morelli, has for quite some time used yoga and the “Internal Arts” as part of her dispute resolution practice (that’s Julia in the photo), and there are a growing number of practitioners who use Aikido and other martial arts as aids in stressful environments.  The Center for Mind-Body Medicine has long been involved in exploring the connection between our physical selves, our emotional selves, and our relationship to conflict, including a good bit of work in Israel and Palestine.

As part of my work with SMU’s graduate program in dispute resolution, I have teamed with an Israeli psychologist to teach a course in trauma and long term conflict.  That course featured interaction with the outstanding trauma counseling professional in Israel, and I currently am pursuing a proposal to produce a trauma intervention package that can be used by schools in Palestine to blunt the impact of daily trauma there.  There’s a lot to the mind-body/mindfulness approach to stress reduction and conflict resolution.

 

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Aug 2012
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