How to talk to a difficult person? Learn how to prepare for challenging conversations

Do you have a conflict with a friend, family member, neighbor, colleague, partner or anyone else, that you have been wanting to address but you don’t know how? Or have you been trying to avoid someone you had a conflict with, but this person keeps showing up in your life and you don’t know what to do? Or is a friend having a conflict that he/ she cannot address and you want to help them sort it out?

It can be very hard to re-start a conversation with someone who we had a conflict with. Often, we will just try to ignore the topic or stop the contact with this person. But what if it is a colleague, family member or a neighbor who will not disappear from our lives?

In this 3-hour online-session we will focus on our own feelings and needs. We will try to understand what keeps us from addressing the person and why we might not be able to just close this chapter. We can learn how to deal with our emotions involved and get clarity about our needs and next steps. This session can give us insights that make it much easier to approach the other person. Or it might even happen that after this session you don’t feel the need to address the issue with the other person anymore because you have ‘sorted this out’ in yourself.

The facilitator, Duke Duchscherer is a certified trainer on Nonviolent Communication (NVC) which (contrary to popular believe) is NOT about ‘being nice’ but much rather about communicating with authenticity and honesty. In this session he will offer insights, tools and the space to find your own approach.

Register here https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsf-mqpzoiGdM6kvFnUyunEeWYeSHoYYx- to join us on Zoom (you will receive the sign-in-link by email).

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