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Here’s part 9 of the Transforming Communication interview:
…Richard: And what they were saying was: look, I’m basically a good human being, I want to create cooperative relationships, and I know most of us did. And something got out of hand and we didn’t know how to stop it.
Really, history is about that. Something got out of hand, and we didn’t know how to stop it.
Well … we do now. And that’s what I want to see happen. I want to see this be a time when war comes to an end, when that kind of conflict resolution that used to go on with guns and the bigger person winning, the bigger side winning, that that comes to an end and we’re creating the kind of world that people wake up in the morning and they want to go to work, they want to be in the teams that they’re in, they want to be in the family that they’re in.
Those kind of relationships are possible, you can learn how to do them, and we need to learn how to do those individually as well as teaching the people in government how to do them.
A really good example of that is what happened in the Middle East when the very first ideas for a peace settlement in the Middle East came out with the Oslo Accord, and so there were leaders from Palestine and Isreal who met together in Oslo. They had skilled negotiators working with them, using many of the skills that I teach on this training.
They reached agreement. For the first time these people who are leaders of these two different sides actually felt good about each other. They began to trust each other. The negotiator who described this said: it’s kind of almost like a love affair that happens when you get a successful negotiation going.
Now, then they went to their communities. The communities hadn’t been there, they hadn’t been part of the conflict resolution process, and so immediately the leader of Israel was assassinated and on the Palestinian side people refused to cooperate with this, they said that this was collaboration. The whole process collapsed. Because people at the grass roots hadn’t changed.
That’s what I see as being the role of Transforming Communication and not just Transforming Communication alone. This is part of history. We’re at a time of history where war is coming to an end and where cooperative relationships have their day
And that’s my vision of the future, to be a part of this process of creating a cooperative world. That’s what makes business successful, that’s what makes families work, and that’s what makes life worthwhile in the way that, when you ask people: how is your life, what’s happening for you? When people say: it’s awesome, it’s amazing! They are usually thinking about this kind of relationship. That’s the world I want.
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That’s what we probably all want. Find out more in part 10 of the Transforming Communication interview…