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Helpful books recommended for Building Healthy Relationships & Reducing Conflict.

£8.99 Boundaries Face to Face [Cloud & Townsend] - How to have that difficult conversation you've been avoiding!

This book empowers you to take the initiative in creating relationships that are honest, intimate, and fulfilling.  It shows how to have a helpful effective confrontation with another person whether it be your spouse, parents, kids, boss, co-workers....

£8.99 Telling Each Other The Truth [William Backus - Truth spoken in love, not harshness, can heal the hurts between people as well as the hurts inside them!
bulletInsight for speaking the truth in love rather than accusation and defensiveness.
bulletMethods to avoid manipulating.
bulletkeys to listening to what others are saying....& more
£10.99 Never Call Them Jerks [Arthur Paul Boers] - Healthy responses to difficult behaviour.

A great book for pastors to help deal with difficult church members.  Rather than focussing on what we cannot control - other's behaviour Boer shows us how to understand conflict and change our responses to it.

£11.50 The Peacemaker [Ken Sande] - A biblical guide to resolving personal conflict.

A biblical, practical and user friendly book providing you with peacemaking principles to manage conflict confidently and constructively leading to significant personal growth, deepened meaningful relationships and glorifying of God.

£8.99 Getting Anger Under Control [Neil Anderson & Rich Miller] - overcoming 1]unresolved resentment, 2]overwhelming emotions, 3]the lies behind anger

The authors explain the difference between righteous and unrighteous anger and how living in grace and forgiving others allow you to throw off anger's chains.

£11.99 Church Conflict [Charles Cosgrove] - the hidden systems behind the fights.

A look at church as a family& as in any family, conflict in the church family is natural and inevitable. Cosgrove & Hatfield  applied family-systems theory to identify the hidden structural boundaries in any group relationship. They show how the dynamics and 'family rules' operating in the informal family-like church system powerfully influence how church members relate to each other.

£8.99 How Your Church Family Works - Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems

Steinke shows how to recognise and deal with the emotional roots of issues like church conflict, leadership roles, congregational change, irresponsible behaviour, and the effects of family of origin on current relationships.  Discover why working relationships may be "stuck" in certain behaviours.  A very helpful book.

£11.50 The Anger Workbook [Les Carter & F. Minirth] - A 13-step interactive plan to help you understand how unmet needs can feed anger, realise how other emotions can influence anger, find healthy ways to express and control your anger.

 

£10.99 Making Peace With Conflict [Ed. by Schrock-Shenk & L.Ressler] - Practical skills for conflict transformation

A practical guide to understanding and transforming conflict based on biblical and Anabaptist principles.  This book gives a better understanding of how to transform life's inevitable conflicts to opportunities. It also shows what power has to do with conflict.

£8.99

Caring Enough To Confront [David Augsburger] -How to understand and express your deepest feelings toward others 

Discussing trust, anger, change, prejudice, blame, guilt, loyalty and conscience, Augsburger describes a Christian lifestyle that cares enough to risk confronting others when differences become important and working thru' the differences.

 

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