Reflections about the Intention-Response Feedback Loop by James R. Holbrook Intention: What is your intended outcome for this interaction? Behavior: What behavior have you chosen to implement your intention? Response: Read More »
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Reflections for Veterans about Surviving War and Killing
Reflections for Veterans about Surviving War and Killing by James R. Holbrook 1. Understanding: “What you did will mark you, darken you.” Donald Pfarrer, The Fearless Man 301 (New York: Read More »
Reflections on PTSD-like Symptoms in Greek Literature
Reflections on PTSD-like Symptoms in Greek Literature(1). By James R. Holbrook The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about PTSD-like symptoms experienced by an Athenian warrior in the Battle of Marathon in Read More »
Reflections on Three Common Mental Mistakes in Negotiation
By James R. Holbrook Three of the most common mental mistakes in negotiation are: 1. Viewing negotiation as dividing a fixed pie. 2. Anchoring on the first offer. 3. Escalating Read More »
Reflections on Homecoming from the Vietnam War
Reflections on “Homecoming” from the Vietnam War By Jim Holbrook Relations between the United States and Vietnam were officially normalized in 1995. In 1997, I went back to Vietnam. There Read More »
Reflections on What I’ve Learned about Teaching
by Jim Holbrook In 1990, when I was asked to teach the ADR Course at the University’s College of Law as an adjunct professor (1990-2002), I learned I was not Read More »
Reflections on the Life of David Lynn Crandall
Reflections on the Life of David Lynn Crandall August 30, 1919 – September 20, 2015 Dave Crandall was my father-in-law for eight and a half years. I miss him. I Read More »
Reflections about the Life of a Dead Friend
Greg Mace (August 12, 1943-July 26, 1986) was the eldest of five children of Isabel and Stuart Mace who graduated from Grinnell College in 1941. Isabel and Stuart Mace, Spring Read More »
Reflections on the Johari Windows
Joe Luft and Harry Ingham were researching human personality at the University of California in the 1950s when they devised their “Johari Window” named after a combination of their two Read More »
Reflections about Intimacy in Our Lives
By Jim Holbrook Paul Parkin has a wonderful TED Talk about the challenges and benefits of creating, receiving, and co-creating empathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4aHb_GTRVo I want to talk about “intimacy” which occurs Read More »