The Mindful Show

If the musician plays the instrument, the negotiator plays the Self. Two crisis negotiation consigliari riff on developing real negotiation skills and making them accessible in the highest stakes arenas. Andy makes the important distinction between skillful attributes instead and the concatenation of statements. He does so while integrating blues guitar to the delight of the host.

Max and Colleen are joined by Mindful Negotiating's Director of Incident Response and former FBI hostage negotiator, Melissa Fortunato to discuss deception and lies.

Elaine Lin Hering joins Max and Colleen to discuss her new book, Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully.

We welcome Jody Scheier MSW, LICSW, BCD, an early collaborator of Roger Fisher's in developing the Interpersonal Skills Exercise (IPS), Professor at Lesley University, gifted professor and therapist.

On this episode we welcome Dr. Joshua N. Weiss, the program director for Bay Path’s Master of Science in Leadership and Negotiation, Senior Fellow at the Harvard Negotiation Project (HNP), co-founder of the Global Negotiation Initiative at the HNP. We discuss the Abraham Path Initiative, the negotiations surrounding it, and how this might apply to our negotiations.

Peter Hiddema consults, coaches, trains, and speaks around the world on negotiation, collaboration, conflict management, difficult conversations, and collaborative relationship management. He is Founder and Principal of Common Outlook Consulting Inc.

Joe Bubman, Founder of Urban Rural Action, talks to us about positive peace and preventing violence in the US and abroad.Previously, Joseph Bubman waS a senior peacebuilding advisor on the Peace and Conflict team at Mercy Corps. He supported the development and implementation of conflict management programs in countries such as Mali, Uganda, Kenya, Iraq, Liberia, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Georgia, Guatemala, and Colombia. He led the development of a strategy to address the root causes of conflict in South Sudan. He also led Mercy Corps' efforts to enhance global capacity to negotiate for humanitarian access with state actors and non-state armed groups.