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Fierce Civility
"I am moved. Hope can be actionable! Fierce Civility is like a mindfully-engineered vehicle the reasonable and heart-weary can take command of to re-enter the arena better equipped to make hope actionable.”
–Jody Luzier
Live with
Fierce
Civility
Weaving a golden thread of unrelenting hope throughout the world.
Fierce
Civility
Has the world gone mad? We seem to be polarized to the point of extremism and caught in a perpetual cycle of anxiety. Most of us know things have to change, and that we need to find our way back to one another. But how?
Heartwalker Press (2023)
Trade paperback: ISBN 9798386586355, $24.95 US
Kindle: ASIN B0BXK6H2FV, $9.95 US

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Fierce Civility: Transforming our Global Culture from Polarization to Lasting Peace answers these questions and more by providing a step-by-step pathway into a dynamic new human story with hope at its foundation. It lays out the Fierce Civility Pathway of Hope, a sweeping, bold yet highly relational and pragmatic plan that can break the gridlock of polarization, bring us together, and get us talking again to form effective solutions to our personal and world’s problems. It invites readers into a broader conversation where we can explore relevant and urgent questions, such as:
- How do we confront a bully without becoming one?
- How do we stand in our courage, speak our truth, and bring about beneficial change for all, without getting harmed or harming others?
- How do we advocate for social and cultural transformation without adding to the tension?
- How do we increase our greater capacity to stay in this tension, and continue to gain access to our own internal power and freedom, as we collaborate in an effective, productive way?
Through strategies, skills and practices honed and road-tested during the author’s decades of work, Fierce Civility takes us on a journey of engaging the heart and its attributes of wisdom, compassion and courage in practical, concrete ways to bring about healing, reconciliation, and personal and cultural transformation.
Its powerful message is for anyone who is trying to find their grounding in these uncertain times, or is seeking a practical, heart-inspired methodology for making world peace, at long last, our reality.
is the balm needed to guide us through these extraordinary shifts in human history.”
Engaging safely and open-heartedly in the face of conflict.
Mastering Respectful
Confrontation
Heartwalker Press (2012)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9834614-0-1
ISBN-10: 0-9834614-0-6
LLCN: 2011925973
$15.95 US

“What a unique, intensely focused and practical approach to interpersonal communication! My life has been forever changed.”
—Tom Goddard
Co-founder of the Integral Institute for Medicine
At the heart of Mastering Respectful Confrontation is the belief that it is possible to stand in your power, speak your truth, hear the truth of others, and get your needs met in a way that will harm neither you nor others. This comprehensive and dynamic training guide offers inspiring practices and exercises to individuals and leaders in the workplace and government open to personal freedom and empowered, collaborative engagement.
Learn how to:
- achieve a greater sense of power, personal freedom and vision.
- improve relationships and strengthen your influence at work or home, and in the world.
- find new solutions to familiar problems.
Director of the Center for Leadership and Public Values at Duke University
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