Brave Talk, Melody Stanford Martin
Brave Talk, Melody Stanford Martin
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Brave Talk
Building Resilient Relationships in the Face of Conflict

Author: Melody Stanford Martin

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/26/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

When we disagree about fundamental issues, especially issues such as politics or religion, it can be incredibly difficult to maintain close interpersonal relationships. These differences have ended friendships and caused rifts in families. We need a tool to help us build more resilient relationships despite real and present differences.

In Brave Talk, communications expert Melody Stanford Martin offers just such a tool: impasse. By learning to treat every conflict as if it's an impasse and temporarily suspend our desire to resolve differences, we make space for deeper understanding and stronger ties.

Brave Talk offers hands-on skill-building in critical thinking, power sharing, and rhetoric. Combining real-life storytelling and rigorous academic sources, this book blends humor, creativity, and interactive learning to help everyday people develop better skills for navigating conflict in order to build stronger relationships and healthier communities.

About Melody Stanford Martin

Melody Stanford Martin is a social ethicist and communications expert helping people of all ages develop skills of courageous dialogue and conflict transformation. She is the founder and CEO of Cambridge Creative Group, an organization specializing in nonprofit messaging and outreach, and a founding cohost of Irenicast, a podcast on faith and culture. She is a graduate of the religion and conflict transformation program at Boston University School of Theology. Stanford Martin lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband, Corey, and their dog, Benedict Cumberbatch.


Reviews

Goodreads review by T.X.

This book is fantastic, profound, and important. If you're suffering because you're in conflict with people you love over deeply held values, this is the book you need.......more

Goodreads review by Amy

EVERYONE can do better in approaching disagreements which are so inevitable in this current climate. Many may feel like giving up even trying to talk over painful divides. People of all ages can discover in this book the tools to talk effectively to people with whom they disagree. Here is hope! Packe......more

Goodreads review by Valerie

Helped bring me further down a path I've been trying to follow for a few years - that on many or even most issues, there exists more than one right answer and we need to listen more than we speak. (I'm trying!)......more