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NEW SOCIETY BLOG — Progressive Leadership
How to Communicate Your Non-Defensive Positioning Statement
In Beyond Contempt: How Liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide, Erica Etelson introduces and explains techniques of Powerful Non-Defensive Communication (PNDC) to help navigate conversations in a way that fosters understanding. In the following paragraphs, Etelson describes how to use a positioning statement to open up a conversation where each party knows where the other one stands.
The Tongue Twister Game
In The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics, Cyndi Suarez includes a section on games. She says, “Play catalyzes creativity and innovation. Play allows experimentation with different potential realities. Trying things out first in play space increases the chances of successful innovation in the structured space of everyday life"
Choosing Hope in these Troubled Times
Today's blog is from Kate Davies, author of Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Trouble Times, and winner of the Grand Prize Nautilus Award.
Tags: Activism, Climate Change, Collapse, Community, Progressive Leadership, Social Justice, Sustainable Living
New Society Publishers Spring 2020
Our Acquisitions Editor Rob West offers an introduction to our Spring 2020 season in today's blog. All of these books are now available for pre-order.
Tags: Activism, Climate Change, Community, Cooking, Ecological Design & Planning, Education, Environment & Economy, Gardening, Progressive Leadership
How liberals can talk and listen to Trump supporters, without blowing a fuse
Beyond Contempt: How Liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide by Erica Etelson shows progressives how to communicate respectfully and effectively across the great political divide, defusing hostility, building trust, and, just maybe, discovering common ground.