BEING RELATIONAL GAZETTE
BALTIMORE MEDIATION’S NEWSLETTER AND TIPS – August 2018
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A MESSAGE FROM OUR FOUNDER
We are in the last month of the summer - where did the time go? It is also crazy to think this is Baltimore Mediation's 25th year in business. Keep an eye out for a Save the Date to our 25th Anniversary party, happening at the end of September. We hope you are following along with
our #7WAYS7WEEKS Summer Series
on the 7
Ways of Being Relational
! Follow along on
Facebook
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Instagram
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Youtube
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Twitter
for tips, how-to' s, videos, and more!
Happy August!
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GRATITUDE…. ACCOLADES, HIGH FIVES!
Join in the first ever American Bar Association (ABA)
Telesummit on Relational Practices September 4-7, 2018. Louise and Kim Wright are co-chairs of the
American Bar Association's Relational Practices Practices Task Force (RPTF) and they are producing the telesummit. Lawyers and Counselors from across the country are coming together to speak about Relational Practices within their field of expertise. Louise will be discussing lawyer well-being, and the pressing need for relational practices for lawyers age of the "Adversarial Ethic."
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I CAN RELATE BLOG...
"Tina Turner belted out in her 1984 lyric, What’s love got to do with it? You remember, right? The sizzly song about the crazy confusing experience of strong emotional and physical desires butting up against the rational protect yourself mental act. We can bet that when our
Relational Mindset is in alignment with our behavior and actions that we too will experience that crazy push-pull. Well, maybe not quite as steamy as Tina Turner but definitely real, with our active mental processes chiding us to do things safely, to protect our hearts and our egos..."
Read the full July "I Can Relate!" blog titled
What's Love Got to Do With It?
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here
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OUR TRAININGS
Our October training,
a 40- Hour training in October focused on a variety of conflict settings,
is coming up soon!
In November we are launching a
brand new
training, an advanced 20-Hour training focusing on blended families, trauma and resilience!
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TRAINING PARTICIPANTS ARE SAYING…
"
I have to say that Louise's training program is the best post-law school I have ever received. After having represented parties in over 200 mediations, her instruction completely changed my view of the process and approach to mediation."
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Bill Kenealy
, Attorney, Kentucky
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IN A RECENT…
Divorce Mediation, two clients learned the power of making a
request of one another. When you make a request, you are allowing the other person to hear you, but also allowing them the opportunity to respond to a want or need you have.
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TIP OF THE DAY:
THE SEVEN WAYS OF BEING RELATIONAL:
BEING GENEROUS
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This month, we are going to focus on the fifth way of being -
Being Generous!
Being Generous is a leap of faith. There is no denying that you are taking chances when you give away anything of value to another, even if it is only your time. However, in life, we need courageous, generous people to step up and be a positive force to help those who are exploited by extreme practices in pursuit of any type of profit.
Being generous makes you physically and emotionally feel good. Generosity is contagious and when you are generous, others feel empowered to be generous too, and you are able to start a ripple of generosity that can quickly become a wave.
This month, lets all try to increase our little acts of generosity, knowing even small acts of generosity can have a big positive impact.
Try it! And let us know what happens!
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SPEAKING EVENTS
Louise Phipps Senft has been selected at the Keynote Speaker for the Young Lawyers Division at the ABA Annual Meeting this month in Chicago. She will be delivering a talk on Being Relational - Improving your well-being through Quality Interaction.
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Louise is available to speak at events, conferences, schools, companies and more. Her speech themes include, but are not limited, to Relational Leadership for You, for women, attorneys, executives, politicians, physicians, families; Transformative Mediation: what it is and why you need it; Stories from the Trenches; Transforming the Adversarial Ethic in Your Life; Where is God in Crisis?; Relational Advocacy in Healthcare: Crossing Silos and Moving Mountains;Relational Advocacy in Attorney Negotiations, and Creative Miracles for Healthcare and Well-Being: The Side-by-Side Partnership of Integrative Medicine and Western Medicine.
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TEAM HIGHLIGHT – Chris Rubacky
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Chris Rubacky
has been helping as an Adjunct Trainer and Group Coach at Baltimore Mediation for over three years. Before joining the team at Baltimore Mediation, Chris has been a special education teacher, businessman and a full-time professional trainer/consultant in conflict resolution, diversity awareness building, and school-based peer mediation and special education mediation.
He spent ten years training community leaders, volunteers, students, and school teachers for established non-profit organizations such as Buck County Peace Center (Pennsylvania), Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center (California) and Community Boards of San Francisco. Chris also served for almost a decade as a volunteer Community Mediator for Community Boards (CBSF), where he worked on the diversity training committee and helped them produce various marketing and training materials, including CBSF's annual brochure, which was then printed in five languages.
Chris enjoys spending time with his wife and young daughter and his large extended family.
Chris has a Master's Degree in Special Education from American University. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in History from Emory University in 1987 and is a proud alumnus of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, DC.
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QUOTE FOR THE MONTH:
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Every event, every situation in which you may find yourself has a positive value, even the dramas, even the tragedies, even the thunderbolt from a calm sky"
- Arnaud Desjardins
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For copies of the
Amazon best seller
Being Relational: The Seven Ways to Quality Interaction & Lasting Change
visit
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