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Healing the Heart of Conflict: 8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others

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What a life-changing book! Heartfelt, honest and inspiring. I'm already feeling its presence in my life. I love how the author incorporates all the various aspects of interaction in human existence--be, do, see, feel, etc. The lessons in this book are applicable to situations from dealing with a crabby cashier at the grocery store, to resolving conflicts in Iraq, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine. Emotions and other "non-rational" aspects of conflict are rarely addressed in traditional attempts at conflict resolution. Kudos to the author for discussing these issues.

Before I got very far into this wonderful book, I started recommending it to
many of my friends and family, so strongly did it grab hold of my need to heal and change, showing me a mirror thru which I could safely navigate toward sane seas. What a powerful, uncomplicated paradgin for resolution, closure and renewed optimism.

The subtitle of "8 Crucial Steps to Making Peace with Yourself and Others" is a precise summation for this easy-to-read and easy-to-understand book. Dr. Marc Gopin has taken his global experiences in Conflict Resolution and condensed them into a seamless application for our personal and business use. Each step is clearly defined and his personal examples relate to EVERYONE. At the root of it, it points out that by applying these 8 steps in our daily life, we are ALL capable of living a life without conflict. What a concept for this world! Buy it, read it, and then give 20 copies of it to the people who surround you in your life. Sit back and watch the changes. It's PROFOUND! Just Brilliant!

The subject matter is enormous, but the only one I could find that approached everyday types of conflict. Helpful, but no panacea.