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Going Home to Visit
Your Parents Expect You Home for the Annual Family Gathering, but Every Time You Walk Through Their Front Door, You Feel Like You’re Stepping Back in Time
It’s as if you leave your independent adult life on the front doorstep to assume your old roles, and all the emotional baggage that goes with them. With her new book, Going Home without Going Crazy, renowned conflict management expert Andra Medea offers you a variety of tools to settle conflicts in the present so they don’t escalate and carry on. Through the implementation of the four-level conflict continuum, Andra provides you with a new context for viewing the most common conflicts of all: those of the family. She highlights the underlying issue of all conflicts, namely vulnerability, and explains effective ways you can break the violation-vulnerability cycle in order to better communicate your needs to those you love most. In practicing Andra’s techniques, you will be better able to discern your family members’ communication patterns and thereby react to their sometimes inflammatory behavior in a healthy, sound fashion without causing the whole situation to blow up by reciprocating their actions. After reading Going Home without Going Crazy, you will be fully equipped to face any family conflict. Andra provides you with the means to:
- Alleviate “flooding”—one of the main causes of escalatory reaction during conflict—to more appropriately address the matter at hand
- Recognize appropriate familial conflict so you can better assist those in your family who are victims of predation or tyrannical behavior
- Heed your conflictual “blind spot” so you are sensitive to the needs of your family members
- Rebuild bridges that may have burned in conflicts long passed
About the Author… Andra Medea is a conflict management consultant with Medea & Associates. She has taught conflict management at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and DePauw University . Her clients include hospitals, social service agencies, religious groups, and other organizations that seek to provide services to people in conflict. She gives seminars and lectures on conflict management regularly.
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