Videos
Conversations on Compassion with Scilla Elworthy
An interview with Scilla Elworthy, peace builder and the founder of the Oxford Research Group. The interview which includes this section where Scilla gives advice on dialogue between people in conflict.
How to Hold Space
Josh Connolly talks about the importance of holding space and how to do it. He says that often we seek to fix when really what people need is our support and to be heard.
The Danger of a Single Story
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. In this TED talk Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
In Dialogue with Reality
In this TED talk Sidsel Stausholm Andersen explain her purpose to hold space to create more soulful and regenerative learning environments. Her work is about dialogue and group processes - supporting, practising and bringing forward a better understanding of what it means to listen and speak when one is sitting in a circle.
Summary of Difficult Conversations book
Podcasts
How to talk like a Samaritan
BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth - Michael Rosen talks to Mark Harris, who volunteers for the Samaritans, about the ways in which talking and listening can best be used to help people in crisis.
Listen and learn: how to make better conversation
BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth - Michael Rosen talks to Eddy Canfor-Dumas and Peter Osborn about how improving our dialogue is good for everything, from helping excluded children to resolving conflict.
What is empathy?
In this BBC CrowdScience podcast listener Maria gets a headache when her husband gets migraines. She wants to know if she's experiencing an extreme form of empathy and what’s happening in her brain to cause this.