William Ury - Embracing Our Interconnected Humanity as an Antidote to War

Humiliation is reflected in most major historical events, especially in wars.

Throughout the centuries, humans continue to be stuck in the same pattern of humiliation. And it has become even more significant in the present.

Author and negotiation expert William Ury joins Thomas for their second conversation in a three-part series. They discuss how historical traumas contribute to current conflicts, including the ongoing war in Ukraine. William emphasizes the need for compassion, empathy, and inclusion in our individual and collective approaches to bringing about peace and positive change in the world.

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What You Will Discover: 

✔️ The secret to peace is us. William Ury breaks down the importance of doing inner work, achieving more awareness and consciousness in the midst of conflict, and creating space for resolution and alternatives.

✔️ In the present times of conflict, we need respect. We are all interdependent. By putting ourselves in other people’s shoes and showing positive intent, society can shift and create cycles of mutual respect and safety. 

✔️ Force arises from humiliation, but genuine power emerges from humility. What causes humans to replicate the same patterns in history are our buried feelings of humiliation. The only way to break it is to respond in a skillful manner - showing up and remaining humble.

✔️ Be a possibilist. Seeing only one side of the coin will never fully heal us from humiliation. The best way is to seek out potential - recognize both positive and negative possibilities so you can act accordingly and move the situation forward.

✔️ The balcony perspective allows a deeper connection to the situation. Zooming out gives us the space to ask the right questions. “What’s going on here? Where are we getting stuck? How do we fix this?” Slowly, as we practice empathy, we can heal and rewrite the play in a more constructive direction.

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William Ury is one of the world’s leading experts on negotiation and mediation. As the co-founder of the Program on Negotiation, he is a driving force behind many new negotiation theories and practices. Ury is the co-author with Roger Fisher and Bruce Patton of Getting to Yes, a 15-million-copy bestseller translated into more than 35 languages, and the author of several other books including the award-winning Getting to Yes with Yourself.

Over the last four decades, Ury has served as a negotiation advisor and mediator in conflicts ranging from the Cold War to ethnic and civil wars in the Middle East, Chechnya, Yugoslavia, and most recently in Colombia. In addition to teaching negotiation and mediation to tens of thousands of executives, Ury is the founder of the Abraham Path Initiative, which seeks to bring people together across cultures by opening a long-distance walking route in the Middle East that retraces the footsteps of Abraham and his family. In recognition of his work, he has received the Cloke-Millen Peacemaker Award, the Whitney North Seymour Award from the American Arbitration Association, and the Distinguished Service Medal from the Russian Parliament.

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Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator whose lifelong work integrates the core insights of the great wisdom traditions and mysticism with the discoveries of science. Since 2004, he has taught and facilitated programs with more than 100,000 people worldwide, including online courses which he began offering in 2008. The origin of his work and more than two decades of study and practice on healing collective trauma is detailed in his book Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds

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