Co-creating Peace

Welcome to Part 2 of "Walking Through the Blueprint of We - A Way to Co-create Relationships" – Episode #40 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In Episode #16 of this podcast, I interviewed Sheella Mierson and Rachel Eryn Kalish about “A Way to Co-create Relationships (The Blueprint of We Process).” They described the Blueprint of We...

Welcome to “What is Restorative Justice, Really?” – Episode #39 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  I am so pleased to have my friend and colleague, Tonya Covington join me to talk about a very important field of mediation – especially in today’s world. It is a powerful, yet underutilized form of mediation known as Restorative Justice. Tonya C...

Welcome to “Implementing Emotional Intelligence”, Episode #38 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In last week’s episode, I talked about “Expressing Emotion Safely”. In this episode, I’ll discuss Emotional Intelligence, also known as EI or EQ, which I think is defined best by Daniel Goleman, author of the book titled “Emotional Intelligence”,...

Welcome to “Expressing Emotion Safely” – Episode #37 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Expressing our emotions, especially when we feel those emotions strongly is something that is very difficult for many people to do, or to do successfully, and in ways that help build understanding.  We all struggle from time to time with how to express our...

Welcome to “The Courage to Bridge the Divide” – Episode #36 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In this episode, I share a letter from a listener seeking advice about feeling rejected by family members, and not knowing how to have a productive conversation about that. The advice I will share could be applied in any situation where one feels as...

Welcome to “Terms to Know” – Episode #35 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In previous episodes of this podcast, I talked about the importance of being mindful of how we use words. In times of change and unrest, such as the times we are in now, new terms often emerge to help us to better understand the world around us and one another, while...

Welcome to Peacemaking 101, Episode #34 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Victor La Cerva about peacemaking and emotional fluency. Victor worked in violence prevention for more than 25 years. He remains engaged, although he is now retired from his NM Department of Health Family Health Med...

Welcome to “Walking Through the Blueprint - A Way to Co-create Relationships” - Episode #33 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In Episode #16 of Co-creating Peace, I interviewed Sheella Mierson and Rachel Eryn Kalish about The Blueprint of We Process. They described the Blueprint of We and gave examples of where and how it is used. At the en...

 Welcome to “What Is Mediation?”, Episode #32 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  I’ve mentioned mediation in some of the previous episodes of this podcast, but I haven’t talked a lot about what mediation is, and how it compares to other methods of resolving or addressing conflict. Managing conflict and resolving conflict are two different th...

Welcome to “Igniting Positive Change”, Episode #31 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. In this episode I have the pleasure of interviewing Amanda Trosten-Bloom, co-author of The Power of Appreciative Inquiry , which I mentioned to you in Episode #29 of this podcast. She will explain Appreciative Inquiry, and we’ll talk about its many useful ap...

Welcome to “We See What We Believe”, Episode #30 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In this episode I’ll be talking about an interesting, sometimes beneficial, and more often detrimental psychological phenomenon known as “Confirmation Bias.” I will also share a letter with you from someone who wrote to me about how she used Appreciative Inqu...

Welcome to “The Power of the Positive”, Episode #29 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  This episode builds upon what I discussed in Episode #14 on re-framing our perspective.  Our experience and perspective of life is dramatically affected – positively or negatively – by what we choose to focus on, how we choose to interpret that, and how we...

Welcome to “Fostering Evolution – The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback”, Episode #28 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  One of the most powerful gifts we can receive is reflection of how others see and experience us. When that reflection is positive, we feel validated. When that reflection shows us something we don’t want to recognize in...

Welcome to “Values Based Decision Making: The Ethical Heart of a Healthy Organization”, Episode #27  of Co-creating Peace. My friend and fellow mediator, Mark Bennett, is joining me again today. You may recall the wonderful conversation that Mark and I had in Episode #21 about his most recent book, Uniting by Design. In Uniting by Design, he updated the process from his previous book on Values-Bas...

Welcome to “Longing for Yesteryear” - Episode 26 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In recent months, I have received many letters from listeners, some seeking advice, others sharing what happened when they tried some of the tools I’ve talked about in this podcast. Some of the letters seeking advice have similar themes, so I decided to share...

Welcome to “Living The Four Agreements” - Episode 25 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In this episode, I discuss a wonderful book by Don Miguel Ruiz, titled The Four Agreements. It is one of those books that is timeless, and contains wisdom that can be applied in many areas of life, most especially in human relationship – both with others...

Welcome to “Resolving Conflict With Your Teen” - Episode 24 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Joining us today is Lisanne Iriks, a conflict resolution specialist who lives and works in Perth, Australia. Lisanne has some great conflict resolution strategies to share with us, including some that are especially helpful when you’re in conflict...

Welcome to “Conflict and Cortisol” - Episode 23 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Today, I am joined by Dr. Mike Kennedy, to talk about the effects that conflict and all the stress that goes with conflict have on your body. Dr. Mike Kennedy is a board certified General Practice Physician with expertise in integrative and alternative medicin...

Welcome to “The Dao of Domination” - Episode #22 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Today, I am joined by Jack Lehman, to talk about The Dao of Domination and a wonderful conscious communication tool called Non-violent Communication, also known as NVC, which was originated by Marshall Rosenberg. Jack Lehman is a Clinical Mental Health Counse...

Welcome to “Uniting By Design” - Episode 21 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Today, I am joined by my friend and fellow mediator, Mark D. Bennett, to talk about his newest book, " Uniting by Design: the Architecture of Creative Collaboration for Organizations…Teams…and Groups. "The process of uniting and dividing is as old as hum...

Welcome to “Your Boundaries Create Your Reality” - Episode 20 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation. I’m Kathleen Oweegon.  We all have boundaries, although we often don’t recognize them until someone crosses them. When our boundaries are crossed, upset and conflict often result. In this episode, I’ll talk about how defining, articulating and hol...

Welcome to “Set the Tone, Change the Experience” - Episode #19 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  In any dynamic, someone sets the tone – consciously or unconsciously. The tone that is set has a powerful influence on what happens next and what the outcome will be. Setting the tone is a vital part of Conscious Communication! In today’s episod...

Welcome to “Re-humanizing One Another” - Episode 18 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Today’s topic relates in many ways to what I spoke about in last week’s episode, which was the frame of reference in which we see one another, and which we sometimes lock people into in our mind. One frame in which we often see and entrap others is in the...

Welcome to “Stuck in the Frame” - Episode 17 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  We all have a frame of reference through which we see the world. This frame dramatically affects the opinions we form, and can make it difficult for us to see things any other way than through our frame. Today, we’re going to explore that phenomenon, how it affec...

Episode #16 -  Blueprint of We Welcome to “A Way to Co-create Relationships” - Episode #16 of Co-creating Peace – a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.  Today, I am joined by Sheella Mierson and Rachel Eryn Kalish to talk about the Blueprint of We, a process that anyone can use to consciously co-create healthy, resilient, honest, and trusting relationships. I’ll also...