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When Your Mind Sabotages Your Dreams
When your Mind Sabotages Your Dreams: Turning Your Critical Internal Voices into Collaborative Allies by Ike Lasater, John Kinyon, & Julie Stiles is now available for purchase at Amazon in paperback and e-book form. It is the latest in the Mediate Your Life series, A Guide to Removing Barriers to Communication.
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Collaboration Through Connection
Collaboration grows out of connection. Because connection (and thus collaboration) is ephemeral and cannot be coerced, we get lost when we think we can get what we want in the world by forcing others to bend to our will. Therefore, whether we are parents, leaders in our community, team members at work, political or military leaders and actors, attempting to get what we want by imposing our will does not give us the results we want in the end. By using force, we perhaps can get someone to do what we want them to do, but we can’t get them to do it for the reasons we want them to…
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An Operating Manual for Our Time
We are not given an operating manual for our lives when we are born. This was strongly brought home to me recently as I held my two newest grandchildren, born within two weeks of each other. Aside from the basics of filling their diapers, nursing, crying and sleeping, they have to learn everything else. There are many unconscious processes that must mature as the child grows into adulthood. As biological beings, all of these processes have evolved since the first spark of life. We have not only been evolving as biological beings, but also as thinking idea machines. Richard Dawkins used the term “memes” to refer to these bits of…
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Ayeish
On a recent trip to Turkey, Ike collaborated with the nonprofit Aeyish, whose mission is to deepen the ability of political leaders to transform conflict into solution and connection. This video highlights the work they did with leaders of various Syrian groups (2016)
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