#WeAreManyWomen: Many Voices
Listen to Your Own Voices First
[Paperback, Nook, or Kindle]
When women trust their intuition and listen to their authentic voices, they end the cycle of ceding authority to others. Licensed therapist Dr. Vali Hawkins-Mitchell has counseled thousands of clients, and she recognizes that women are often silenced in their own lives. #WeAreManyWomen: ManyVoices asks a question: If you were to listen to yourself, what would you hear? In sharing 52 reflections on her life experiences and her understanding of what it means to be a multifaceted woman, Hawkins-Mitchell encourages and inspires readers to discover their many voices and listen to them with no judgment. Compassion is born of understanding, she says—and first we must understand ourselves. The reader is invited to use these 52 reflections as weekly meditations, theater events, or discussion groups.…
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Your Guide to Workplace Violence
When Emotions Turn Destructive
[A Rothstein Publishing Collection eBook: Kindle Edition]
Workplace violence is more complicated than physical assault, ranging from small threats to large, catastrophic incidents. It covers any act or behavior where another person is abused, threatened, intimidated or assaulted in his or her place of employment. In Your Guide to Workplace Violence: When Emotions Turn Destructive, licensed therapist Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell will help you decrease risks by showing you what violence is and what it is not, and how to manage it…
The Manager’s Guide to Bullies in the Workplace
Coping with Emotional Terrorists
[A Rothstein Publishing Collection eBook: Kindle Edition]
As a manager, you can usually handle disruptive employees. But sometimes, their emotional states foster workplace tension, even making them a danger to others. Your own confidence is at risk. In The Manager’s Guide to Bullies in the Workplace: Coping with Emotional Terrorists, noted counselor Dr. Vali Hawkins Mitchell gives you sensible advice for keeping the bully from dominating the workgroup and destroying productivity – and maintaining your own healthy emotional balance at the same time. Sometimes the difficult person is an overt physical bully, which makes it easy to simply fire the person. Much of the time, however, the problems are more subtle and build up over periods of time. They undermine your ability to manage your team – and they can spread to the rest of the team, destroying teamwork and productivity…
The Cost of Emotions in the Workplace
The Bottom Line Value of Emotional Continuity Management
[Paperback: 300 pages]
Their work may be valuable to the company. You may not want to lose them. But they create stress, upset, staff turnover and commotion — and hurt your company’s bottom line! Could you use some expert advice to handle seemingly no-win situations like these before it’s too late? What if there were straightforward tools to deal with productivity-sucking, time-wasting, revenue-draining emotional detours while taking care of your employees? This groundbreaking new book, written in business-friendly language by a “Ph.D. in mental health”, provides all of the tools you need right now to keep your team, department, division, or company on course…
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Emotional Terrors in the Workplace
Protecting Your Business’ Bottom Line
[Paperback: 390 pages]
As companies continue to downsize and make do with fewer personnel, it is critical that all managers are able to effectively compel their teams to function at the highest levels possible. In order for optimum performance from all employees to be a reality, there must be a minimum of emotional distress in the workplace. This book is a straightforward look at the real costs of emotional corrosion in the workplace and how it affects the bottom line. It is a frank and open discussion of dysfunctional managerial and employee personality types and how to recognize and repair them. It outlines the empathetic managerial style proven time and again to be the most successful way to improve and maintain employee productivity…
Talking to the Experts About Workplace Violence
Transforming Workplace Culture Series
[Kindle Edition]
I don’t know about you, but these days the idea of turning on the news makes me twitch. I used to be a news junkie. After all the massacres of the last few years, my heart just can’t take it. I can’t look at the faces of sweet innocent victims in a split screen with some maniacal murderers who have, for reasons no one comprehends, taken it upon themselves to annihilate a group of people. I refuse to live in fear. And yet…There is such scary stuff prevalent that it is difficult to imagine a type of location, even those once sacred (worksites, churches, schools, hospitals, airports), that is safe from violation…
Quantum Poetry
A Mindfulness Method Resiliency Story Series
[Kindle Edition]
This ebook is the partial research and academic compilations that were part of obtaining a masters degree in Expressive Arts Therapy. Included is an original method of using writing and meditative poetry to manage strong emotions, such as grief and despair…
Adjusted Parkour
For Those Who Can’t Leap Over Walls But Still Want to Fly Resiliency Story Series
[Kindle Edition]
Have you seen people vaulting over barricades, leaping across rooftops, and doing somersaults off the sides of buildings? They may have been doing Parkour. Dr. Vali Hawkins-Mitchell’s Adjusted Parkour offers a method to participate in Parkour even if you can’t leap across an abyss or even step off a curb. The origins of Parkour offer philosophical as well as physical approaches when encountering obstacles. Dr. Vali’s career has focused on helping others evolve resiliency practices to manage personal and professional obstacles. Adjusted Parkour is the latest addition in her effort to help people discover or remember how to use creative and mindful presence to navigate life.…
My Time with 5000 Soldiers
Resiliency Story Series
[Kindle Edition]
In February of 2013, I had the honor, challenge, horror, joy, and whimsy of being part of a small team of consultants who accepted the privilege of debriefing a brigade of approximately 5000 US Army soldiers as they returned from active duty…
Dr. Vali’s Survival Guide
Tips for the Journey
[Paperback or Kindle Edition]
What would make your “today” better? Try reading Dr. Vali’s Survival tips du jour for a dose of light and inspirational whimsy. The book invites you to share in a portion of Dr. Vali’s journey as she shared it with the Oregon Coast Survival Guide in INKFISH Magazine…
Walkabout
Resiliency Poetry
[Kindle Edition]
Vali’s sticks and stones and birds and breaths, waves and lilacs and rags of poetry were written during the last few decades of her life. She says, “Poetry is of the moment. A moment comes and goes and if a poem emerges during that time it is a glimpse of that moment trying to express itself.” Here are some of her poetic moments…