The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness

How to Express Your Needs and Deal with Conflict While Keeping a Kind Heart

Author: Sherrie Mansfield Vavrichek
ISBN: 9781608821716

Speaking up for yourself has benefits, but it has costs, too. Many people who struggle with assertiveness are paralyzed by worries that they’ll seem mean, petty, or that they will hurt the other person’s feelings. Even though they want to speak up, they may keep their true needs and opinions to themselves because of these fears—eventually building stress, resentment, and alienation. The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness does not require that readers ignore the needs of others and focus solely on their own desires. Rather, this unique blend of cognitive behavioral therapy-based assertiveness training and Buddhist psychology helps readers practice assertiveness skills while caring deeply about the welfare of others. This book helps readers develop a form of assertiveness that emphasizes collaboration, negotiation, and compromise. It focuses on speaking up for the benefit of others and speaking up for the relationship, not just one’s own needs. In this way, readers learn to as

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Publish Date: 2012-08-01

Subjects: Self-Help / Personal Growth / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Communication)