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"Great Reads" Book Club
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Each gathering features a live interview with the author by a different host, followed by comments, questions, and discussion from an audience of experienced mediators, arbitrators, and negotiators. These book club gatherings are open to anyone, but we do ask that you pre-register in advance.
Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension
by Hesha Abrams
Hesha Abrams will be interviewed by John DeGroote on October 28th, 2022 at 10am PST
How do mediators do what they do? How do you approach conflict, and what can you do better when the next dispute arrives? In Holding the Calm: The Secret to Resolving Conflict and Defusing Tension, one of the best tells us what she does to catalyze order from chaos — and how you can help get deals done.
In a little more than 200 quick pages, Hesha Abrams gives us advice based on a dispute resolution practice most only dream of — 30 years of success resolving conflict among well-known brands and personalities with nine figures, political positions, and more at stake. Abrams helped draft the original mediation statute in Texas, but her book makes it clear she hasn’t stopped there. With every anecdote, Abrams reminds us that theory is important, but practice is different.
