Samantha Hardy

Author Solon Simmons is the director of The Narrative Transformation Lab at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution.  His latest book is a fascinating explanation of how the way we tell stories about conflict can create opportunities for political struggle, reconciliation or self-realization. Simmons suggests that there are four main prototypes […]

This book focuses on coaching neurodivergent individuals about their experiences at work. The introduction states that the book supports existing coaching practitioners, managers and community leaders to understand the essentials of neurodivergence, a term that encompasses ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia and Tourette’s syndrome, and how these diagnoses require specific coaching approaches to support individuals to

This New York Times bestseller is not new – it was first published in 1997 and updated in 2012.  But this short and to the point book on marketing services is essential reading for anyone working on developing a conflict-related services practice.   It provides a clear distinction between approaches to marketing a product, and what

To be clear at the outset, this isn’t a book about conflict, at least not in the sense that I am usually discussing. However, it is a book about conflict about language and how we use it.  And as language is one of our primary tools in conflict and how we manage it, you could

I don’t usually review PhD theses, but this one caught my attention and has some really interesting ideas.  In her thesis, Emily comes up with some persuasive arguments to explain the conundrum that there is a high social need for conflict resolution services, but low market demand. She identifies practitioners’ assumptions, expectations and knowledge about