How to Become a Peacemaker (with Jeremy Pollack)

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mark speaks with Jeremy Pollack, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">a social psychologist and conflict resolution consultant. Jeremy&rsquo;s company, Pollack Peacebuilding Systems, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">teaches leaders and employees how to communicate more effectively and rebuild mutual trust through coaching, training, and conflict resolution services. His company has helped dozens of other companies, large and small, in all varieties of industries around the world, to resolve conflicts and foster greater peace.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /><br /></span></p> <p><strong>Today, Commander Divine speaks with Jeremy Pollack, </strong><strong>a social psychologist and conflict resolution consultant. Jeremy&rsquo;s company, Pollack Peacebuilding Systems, focuses on the psychology, social dynamics, and peacebuilding methodologies of interpersonal and intergroup conflicts. In this episode, Jeremy discusses the relationship between martial arts and peacebuilding, the one essential ingredient in any conflict mediation, the psychology behind why we get stuck in conflicts, and much more.</strong><strong><br /></strong><strong><br /><br /></strong></p> <p><strong>Key Takeaways:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /><br /></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>Care comes first. </strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">People need to feel safe, respected, and accepted at an identity level. To be able to solve a conflict with a person, you need to find out what&rsquo;s threatening them. People have to know that you hear them, you care about them, and are actually considering what they're saying. As soon as they feel heard, their defenses come down, they can breathe a little bit, and they're more able to have a conversation about solutions.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /><br /></span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><strong>The connection between martial arts and peacebuilding. </strong><spa