Feb 20, 2025 | Newsletters, Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters This is a heart-breaking time – the brutality all around is hard to bear. When will it ever end? Going round and round in my head are Bob Dylan’s words ‘the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind, the answer is...
Feb 20, 2025 | Tools to Cope with Difficult Conversations |
Why important? The Israeli Palestinian conflict is deeply emotional and personal to many people. The situation is also highly complex. Words invoke strong reactions due to their historical, political, religious and cultural connotations. The choice of language...
Jan 23, 2025 | Newsletters, Updates |
Dear TalkMatters Supporters What a start to the year. Bitter-sweet – Hamas has now released 7 women hostages in return for 290 Palestinian prisoners, the promise of more hostages exchanged for more prisoners, an uncertain cease-fire in Gaza with people returning...
Jan 23, 2025 | Tools to Cope with Difficult Conversations |
In part 4 of our Tools to Cope series, we are talking about navigating nuance: the recognition of complexity in communication. What it is: Nuance can be defined as slight differences in meaning or someone’s feelings that is not usually obvious. To understand nuance,...
