04 Peace and the Well-Tempered Brain - Part lV
Doug asks Don how he responds to push back from corporate and business people who feel that this work is too emotional or touchy-feely. Don says that after he explains the neuroscience, people get it and are ready to learn different ways of being. He says that peace is a way of engaging the world without fear. As a result, stress is reduced in the work environment, which directly and positively affects profits.
03 Peace and the Well-Tempered Brain - Part lll
Doug and Don talk about the concept of flow developed by University of Chicago psychologist, Mihly Cskszentmihlyi. Don understands peace to be a state of flow in our brains. When our brains are operating under optimal conditions, we are not threatened by outside conditions or events, and we are emotionally calm and centered. Doug and Don talk about the idea that peace is not a static, sit under the tree event; peace is dynamic. As a dynamic process, peace is actually a state of immunity...
02 Peace and the Well-Tempered Brain - Part ll
Doug asks Don if his conceptualization of the brain in three parts is similar to Paul MacClains triune brain theory. Don agrees that it is. He sees the primitive brain as holding the fear response mechanism. Fear consists of primal physical fear and psychological fear. The primitive brain cannot tell the difference between the two types of fear and responds the same way to each. Doug and Don talk about neuroplasticity and the idea that our brains can be reprogrammed so as to not be so...
01 Peace and the Well-Tempered Brain - Part l
In todays touch economy, stress is everywhere. And where there is stress, there is bound to be conflict. So it stands to reason if you can figure out a way to reduce your stress and the stress of the people around you, you are more likely to have peace in your life. But how can you reduce stress when you face layoffs, underemployment, unrealistic work and family demands, and all the other pressures of modern 21st century life? My guest on this edition of The Doug Noll Show has learned about...
04 How to Be Right About Everything: Separating Facts from Perceptions - Pa
Nash and Doug talk a little about Nashs consulting work. Nash has worked with a number of federal agencies adopting advanced technology. The normal business measurements do not show whether a technology will be successfully adopted. What is important is stakeholder acceptance and support and the motivation of those affected by the change.
03 How to Be Right About Everything: Separating Facts from Perceptions - Pa
Nash and Doug talk about emergent awareness. Nash believes that separating facts from perceptions allows us to become empowered. We have the power to make choices which create frameworks for our personal and social identity. Many of our choices become internalized and automatic because making choices is metabolically and physiologically expensive to our brains.
02 How to Be Right About Everything: Separating Facts from Perceptions - Pa
Nash and Doug talk about gaining clarity in conflict situations. Nash says that clarity is the absence of fiction. Ego-oriented people will rely on perception rather than on facts and thus not have clarity about a conflict. Perceptions tend to be narrow and clarity allows perceptions to be widened. Nash also points out that perceptions are made by choice, even if unconscious.
01 How to Be Right About Everything: Separating Facts from Perceptions - Pa
Conflict is often about confused interests, needs, goals, and desires, both inside of us and between us. One of the important roles of a mediator and peacemaker is to help people gain clarity about why they are fighting, what they fighting about, and what choices they have to end the fighting. My guest on this edition of The Doug Noll has dedicated his life to helping people gain clarity between facts and choices. He is here to tell us about his work and how it can help you work through the...
04 Free Will and Peace A Conversation with Mick Quinn
Once we begin to awaken to our true self, we can pay attention to our emotions. Most emotions result as a denial of our true self. So the trick to awakening is to become aware and own our emotions. For example, if a driver cuts us off on the freeway and we become angry, acknowledge and own the anger by saying, This anger is mine. By doing this over the course of several months, Mick says that we will experience profound changes in the way we perceive ourselves and the world. Ultimately, this...
03 Free Will and Peace A Conversation with Mick Quinn
Mick and I talk about the difference between the Freudian ego and the small ego. The small ego is a mental structure created to protect individuality. The small ego is created by our life experience and is a reflection of the culture we live in. Once the small ego develops, it operates automatically and generally outside of our perception and consciousness. The key to peace is learning to pay attention to the small ego. This awakening gives us the chance to make choices in conflict...
02 Free Will and Peace A Conversation with Mick Quinn
Mick tells us that as children grow and develop they begin to realize that they are separate beings. The idea of separateness and individuality allows us to be effective agents in life. However, individuality and this sense of agency or conceptual free will is also a trap. By awakening to our true sense of self, rather than our conceptual sense of self, we are able to deal with conflicts and find peace.
01 Free Will and Peace A Conversation with Mick Quinn
One of the secrets to finding peace in your life is doing your inner work. A lot of people ask me to define inner work. Its a nebulous concept that is partly reflective, partly meditative, maybe a bit spiritual and the idea is that you become aware of and examine how you react, feel, think, and see the world moment by moment. In essence, doing your inner work allows you to gain insights about your triggers, about what makes you anxious, and about those things inside you that seem to create...
04 Becoming a Professional Mediator
Lee Jay and I talk about the money side of mediation. The fees that a mediator charges vary by region and by the type of work. Some mediators command as much as $15,000 per day. Generally, mediators charge an hourly rate of between $150 to $450 per hour. Most full-tiime professional mediators charge between $4,000 and $6,000 per day.
03 Becoming a Professional Mediator
Lee Jay tells us he founded the American Institute of Mediation because course offerings because people wanted advanced training not being offered elsewhere. The core faculty of the American Institute of Mediation consist of Lee Jay, Ken Cloke, Erica Fox, Jim Melamed, Woody Mosten, Mel Rubin, and Doug Noll.Lee Jay and I talk about developing a professional practice as a mediator. Lee Jay tells us that a lot of people want to become mediators so specialization is important. Being known as...
02 Becoming a Professional Mediator
The best way to get started in mediation is through community mediation, victim-offender mediation, or Better Business Bureau mediation. These are volunteer mediation opportunities that exist in most communities. In exchange for being trained, you have the opportunity to gain experience as a volunteer mediator. There are also academic programs where you can obtain graduate degrees and certificates and many local universities are starting to offer these courses.Lee Jay tell us that there are...
01 Becoming a Professional Mediator
We all hear about international mediators and federal mediators, but most of us do not really know what a mediator does, how a mediator is trained, or how to become a mediator. What if you were interested in learning how to help people transform their conflicts? What if you are looking for a new career and want to be self-employed? What if you wanted to serve people by helping them bring peace into their lives? How might you go about becoming a mediator.My guest is my very good friend and...
04 Inner Peace is the Source of Peace with Others - Part lV
Doug asks Asha about her book. Asha describes her life with Swami Kriyananda and her intention to write his biography. The book is a series of stories about him that illustrate his teachings in the context of real life.
03 Inner Peace is the Source of Peace with Others - Part lll
Doug and Asha talk about the causes of stress and conflict. Asha tells us that stress is the conflict between two different realities. For example, outside forces may conflict with internal desires and wishes. That conflict causes stress because we do not feel like our desires are being supported. The solution is to develop an inner life through practice that allows for calm and peace no matter what is happening around us. A simple technique is simply to focus on our breathing and take long,...
02 Inner Peace is the Source of Peace with Others - Part ll
Doug and his guest, Asha Praver, talk about her spiritual journey. Asha is the author of Swami Kriyananda As We Have Known Him, which was honored as the best spiritual biography in 2008. Asha is a member of the Ananda community in northern California and a teacher of meditation and yoga.
01 Inner Peace is the Source of Peace with Others - Part l
Doug introduces the idea that developing inner peace is the key to resolving conflicts in our lives. He describes how our brains respond to conflicts and threats and why we become reactive and triggered. The bad news is that our fear-response system is pre-conscious, which means that our reactions are occurring outside of our awareness and control. The good news is that we can re-program our brains to be less reactive and more aware. The payoff is peace.
04 Core Values Build World Class Organizations - Part lV
Tactically, Amie is advising clients to examine current levels of orders and consider the implications of a 100 percent, 400 percent, and 600 percent increase in orders. Is the sales force sufficient in number and adequately trained to handle the business? Is the inventory in a position to be expanded quickly? Does a new line of credit have to be obtained to have liquidity? Is the supply chain stable and able to ramp up quickly? Are the marketing materials relevant to the post-recession...
03 Core Values Build World Class Organizations - Part lll
I ask Amie why companies have such a difficult time aligning themselves to their core values. Amie tells us that it requires a hard, critical, and brutally honest self-examination. Most corporate executives find looking at their faults, errors, and mistakes, too painful to endure. There is often times resistance to transformation because it is simply too challenging to corporate egos.Amie finds that the companies that really need her services are unwilling to transform because they believe...
02 Core Values Build World Class Organizations - Part ll
I ask Amie what causes inconsistency between stated core and actual values in companies. Amie tells us that, in a word, it is arrogance. Companies with arrogant leadership are rarely aligned with their core values. Companies whose leadership are humble and see success based on the organization rather than their own efforts usually find alignment between core and actual values. The value proposition for aligning behaviors with core values is financialcompanies that do so outperform their...
01 Core Values Build World Class Organizations - Part l
In conflict after conflict that I mediate, I cannot help but wonder. Where was the leadership? Where were the people who lived that values espoused in the mission statement? Why do people who are in charge of a company persist in poor decision making that leads to expensive conflicts, disputes, and lawsuits. So many conflicts could be averted if there was enlightened leadership. So a few months ago, a book ends up in my mailbox that talks about the issue of value or principle-based...
04 Finding Peace with Elisabeth Fayt - Part lV
Doug and Elisabeth talk about her film projects, which include The Opus, a follow up to The Secret, The Vow, which is about the voices of women, Luminous World Views, which looks at the merger of spirituality and science, and Forgiveness, a film Elisabeth is producing about the power of forgiveness.
03 Finding Peace with Elisabeth Fayt - Part lll
Elisabeth tells us that the law of attraction doesnt work because people say it doesnt work. In other words, The law of attraction doesnt work for me, is a pre-pave that sets up the reality of failure. Elisabeth asks us to try a thought experiment. Ask for a sign that focused intention really does attract what it seeks and watch carefully. Invariably, you will experience some shift or event that will show you the power. In addition, Elisabeth says that the law of attraction by itself is not...
02 Finding Peace with Elisabeth Fayt - Part ll
Elisabeth explains that pre-paving is about making a conscious statement of what we intend. For example, I intend to have peace in my life today, is a pre-pave that sets us up for attracting peace. Elisabeth says that our subconscious beliefs create our physical reality. What we hold inside our ourselves is reflected in our external experience. I ask Elisabeth why the law of attraction does not work for everyone.
01 Finding Peace with Elisabeth Fayt - Part l
With us today is abundance expert Elisabeth Fayt (say Fate). An international speaker, owner of Canadian wellness success story RnR Wellness, and author of the new book Paving it Forward, Elisabeth believes that we can create a roadmap for the year that will lead us to health, family bliss and good grades through a process called pre-paving! Her website is www.ElisabethFayt.com.Elisabeth and Doug talk about Elisabeths journey from a life of drama and conflict to studying the wisdom of the...
04 Discipline That Restores: Responsible and Effective School Discipline -
Doug asks Ron how we can overcome the entrenched societal attitudes around punishment, especially concerning school discipline. Ron says that people need to know there are alternative discipline systems and structures that do not rely on punishment and are more effective. The problem, says Ron, is that many teachers and administrators fear that if they let go of power and punishment, there will be chaos. Despite years of evidence showing the contrary, teachers and administrators cannot...
03 Discipline That Restores: Responsible and Effective School Discipline -
Ron talks about the larger philosophy of restorative justice. In modern western society, justice is about a rule broken: Who broke the rule and what will be the punishment for the broken rule? This assumptionthat justice equals punishmentis rarely questioned. Society assumes that the purpose of punishment is to create safety. However, no one examines whether punishment actually leads to greater safety.Restorative justice, says Ron, focuses on relationships not on rules. At the level of...