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Our Kind of Adulthood—Does It Make Sense for Our Kids and Is It What They Want?
Original Title
Notre façon d'être adulte fait-elle sens et envie pour les jeunes?
Non-violent communication with our teenagers
Twenty years after the huge best seller Stop Being Nice, Be Real (nearly one million copies sold and translated into more than 20 languages), comes a new book from specialist in non- violent communication Thomas d'Ansembourg. “Young people don't listen to what you say or what you do. They listen to what you are.” This statement is especially true in a society where norms are changing rapidly; that's why it's up to adults to find creative and inspiring answers to questions like these:
• How can we give them stimulating and motivating guidelines?
• How can we demonstrate in the very way we talk to each other, listen to each other and try to understand each other that respect, clarity and empathy are not just ideas, but also values for daily living?
• How can we set clear and enlightening limits, without confining the other person or ourselves?
• How can we show them that there's no such thing as total freedom, that it can only be experienced within accepted limits, and that being free does not mean doing everything we want when we want, but doing what we have chosen to do while accepting the unpleasant consequences of our choices?
• How can we instill in them, through our way of being and living our lives as parents or teachers, a taste for beauty and joy, despite the pain and confusion life brings? Thomas d'Ansembourg sheds light on these questions—and many others!—using concrete examples to encourage us all, young and old alike, to move forward on a path of responsibility, freedom, and unselfish happiness.
THE BOOK'S STRONG POINTS
• The author's empathetic and straightforward style guides us without making judgments, following the principles of Non-Violent Communication (NVC).
• A thoughtful text that is the fruit of over twenty years of experience in offering support to young people and adults.
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- Price :
- 18.90 $ CAD
- ISBN :
- 9782761956406
- Publication date :
- September 2020
- Category :
- Psychology & Self-Help
- Pages :
- 256 pages
Author
Thomas d'Ansembourg
Trained in various psychotherapeutic approaches, notably Dr.
Marshall Rosenberg's method of Nonviolent Communication, Thomas D'Ansembourg is a training facilitator, lectures worldwide
and offers individual consultations.
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