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What White People Can Do to Move Race Conversations Forward | Caprice Hollins | TEDxSeattle

2020

In this 2020 TEDxSeattle talk, Dr. Caprice Hollins explains why we often fail to have productive conversations about race, race relations, and racism in this country. See more...

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Parents Argue Over Popular Daughter Who Is Rude at Home

This story is about a mom and a step-dad who had argued a lot over a teenage daughter who was rude and home and unwilling to do her part. The step-dad shifted to using a non-defensive statement and got very different results.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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See How this Single Question Saved a Marriage

This story is about a situation where Todd, a husband, almost left his wife and kids, and the wife found a way to ask one non-defensive question that led to a conversation that saved the marriage.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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05:51

How Would You Feel if You Could Easily Set Limits & Be More Respected?

So often when we set limits it is with an agenda. We want a certain result and are upset if we don't get it. Here I talk about how to set limits that really work, but it requires not trying to control "which choice" the other child or adult makes.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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03:16

Harassment in the Workplace

This story is about a young woman who was being sexually harassed by her supervisor and was able to ask a question that prompted the supervisor to completely shift his behavior.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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Why Can’t We Think Straight When We Get Defensive?

Defensiveness lives in our bodies; It’s not just a matter of controlling ourselves; the minute we feel any kind of threat it takes over. So how to we get rid of it?

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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04:12

How Can Simple Curious Questions Have Such Disarming Power?

We are used to asking questions in ways that convey judgment and/or are interrogating or entrapping. Much of the body language and tone we use is unconscious. To be real, a question needs to be based on pure curiosity, but it's easier said than done.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2013
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Ego and Defensiveness in Communication: Sharon Strand Ellison

Sharon Strand Ellison, the author of Taking the War Out of Our Words, is a pioneer in the field of eliminating defensiveness. An international communication consultant and award-winning speaker, Sharon is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Powerful Non-Defensive Communication.

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Sharon Strand Ellison
2017
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04:36

I Am Not Black, You Are Not White

These labels were made up to divide us. I am not black, you are not white. Drop the labels.

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Prince EA
2015
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Toni Morrison on Language, Evil and ‘the White Gaze’

Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, returned to Cornell March 7, 2013, for a conversation about literature, politics and, especially, language.

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Toni Morrison
2013
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Luisah Teish: Indigenous Voices

Luisah Teish will speak at The Natural Way about learning to love the Earth, our Mother, and will share her personal stories of growing up in the South and her relationship to the land. She will recount and examine cultural myths that have mis-educated us into alienation from Our Mother Earth.

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Luisah Teish
2012
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