
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Metaphors We Lives By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
This book is for all the language nerds out there (my hand is held up high!) who love exploring how words can structure our reality. As a big fan of metaphor, I couldn’t resist! Some of this book was over my head – linguistics and

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Mediator’s Approach by Tara West
I recently read this overview of different mediation approaches and I was incredibly impressed with the author’s understanding of their similarities and differences. I’ve taught comparative mediation subjects in postgraduate programs for many years, and it’s rare to find someone who can so clearly explain

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Psychologically Informed Mediation by Monica Hanaway
I bought this book expecting more specific content about different aspects of psychology and their relationship to mediation. It doesn’t really include this information, rather it provides a broad overview about how psychological, existential, and phenomenological thought apply to mediation practice. What the book does

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldmann Barrett
As I’ve been putting the finishing touches on our new Managing Emotions in Conflict online course, this book has become my essential reference source. The book explains complex concepts in simple language, with many practical (and often entertaining) examples. The book will challenge many things

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Burnout by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
The Nagoski sisters wrote this book for any woman who has felt overwhelmed and exhausted by everything she had to do, and yet still worried she was not doing “enough”. Sound familiar? With backgrounds as a sex educator and a choral conductor, they might seem

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Book of Human Emotions by Tiffany Watt Smith
This book is a cross between a dictionary of emotion-related words and a book of poetry. Arranged in alphabetical order, it presents a sometimes whimsical description and historical overview of 156 emotion concepts, some well-known (like Anger) and others less common and no longer in
