Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness:
Transforming Conflict into Creative Conflict. By Bob Myers.
A little about the book:
In each part of your life, you deserve the peace and happiness that quality relationships can bring.
Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness defines violence as: ‘words or actions that harm the quality of relationships’. The harm done may be physical, psychological, emotional, social, or spiritual attempts to dominate or control. This book also seeks to overcome gender violence and domestic violence, by providing information about the underlying causes to help people understand and deal with those situations.
Even if you don’t directly experience violence in your own relationships, you can use the knowledge and skills provided to help others reduce the violence they experience. Peacefully resolving conflict in the home is the key to gradually spreading the attitude of nonviolence throughout the community.
In Gandhi’s words, the most effective strategy to adopt is to ‘be the change you want to see in the world’. The Christian version is to 'treat others as you want to be treated'.
The first step towards achieving this is to recognise the roots of violence in our culture that affects all of us. For that reason, the four interwoven threads making up the fabric of this book are:
1. Looking at our relationship to other people.
2. Exploring the way our culture influences the way we treat each other.
3. Looking at how to restore our spiritual strength when we are feeling down.
4. Experimenting with practical, nonviolent ways of responding to conflict or potential conflict.
Most of the people who have read Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness say they are amazed at how often they get opportunities to practice what they discovered in the book. And how it gives them a sense of confidence, purpose and direction for dealing with difficult situations.
Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness uses simple guidelines and examples, in basic family settings, to show how the skills and tools you already have can build quality relationships anywhere.
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What readers are saying:
'Loved the book, how being in harmony with nature and the environment changes the person, its peace of mind at the same time adapting working scenarios at home', Five star rating. Pam T. NetGalley book reviewer.
‘This book should be compulsory reading for all young adults’. Mary M.
‘Thanks to you I realise that the problems we have are normal and can be addressed to bring about positive, happier outcomes’. Julie S.
‘As a teacher, I found your explanations of the difference between punishment and consequences challenging but very helpful’. Peter K.
“Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness” helped me, not just in my contacts with troubled teens, but in my relationships in everyday life – marriage, etc. It is a “must read” for everybody. Ronda P.
'Loved the book, how being in harmony with nature and the environment changes the person, its peace of mind at the same time adapting working scenarios at home', Five star rating. Pam T. NetGalley book reviewer.
‘This book should be compulsory reading for all young adults’. Mary M.
‘Thanks to you I realise that the problems we have are normal and can be addressed to bring about positive, happier outcomes’. Julie S.
‘As a teacher, I found your explanations of the difference between punishment and consequences challenging but very helpful’. Peter K.
“Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness” helped me, not just in my contacts with troubled teens, but in my relationships in everyday life – marriage, etc. It is a “must read” for everybody. Ronda P.
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About the author:
Bob Myers was an electronics technician before gaining a degree in social science and further training in relationship counselling, conflict resolution and mediation. He worked with troubled families for more than thirty years, and as the director of a non-government residential facility for teenagers. His published books are: Parenting Teenagers in the 1990s (1992), Raising Responsible Teenagers (1996), Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness (2011), and Enjoy Parenting Teenagers (2013).
Bob is a family man with a keen interest in gardening, 4x4 driving, social psychology, philosophy and social justice. He also has a passion for exploring the religions of the world. Bob’s dedication to equality and nonviolence as a way of life emerged from all the above. He is a founding member of Pace e Bene Australia Nonviolence Service (PeBA) and is a facilitator of PeBA nonviolence courses.
Click here for author's notes on the reason for the title: Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness.
Bob Myers was an electronics technician before gaining a degree in social science and further training in relationship counselling, conflict resolution and mediation. He worked with troubled families for more than thirty years, and as the director of a non-government residential facility for teenagers. His published books are: Parenting Teenagers in the 1990s (1992), Raising Responsible Teenagers (1996), Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness (2011), and Enjoy Parenting Teenagers (2013).
Bob is a family man with a keen interest in gardening, 4x4 driving, social psychology, philosophy and social justice. He also has a passion for exploring the religions of the world. Bob’s dedication to equality and nonviolence as a way of life emerged from all the above. He is a founding member of Pace e Bene Australia Nonviolence Service (PeBA) and is a facilitator of PeBA nonviolence courses.
Click here for author's notes on the reason for the title: Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness.
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ENJOY PARENTING TEENAGERS.
Enjoy Parenting Teenagers is a 134 page relationship building ebook aimed at helping parents teach, assist and guide teenagers towards responsible adulthood. It also helps boost the confidence and self-esteem of parent and child. Every child can be thought of as an apprentice adult and an adolescent child as very nearly through that apprenticeship. However, there can be problems that need sorting out while 'letting go' of a teenager. Enjoy Parenting Teenagers uses familiar family situations to explore creative ways of responding to conflict and improve relationships. The lessons learned from these family situations can help increase the quality of all your relationships at home, at work, and life in general. Simple conflict resolution guidelines are provided to reduce the number of disputes and power struggles in the home. There are also clear guidelines to help parents explain what 'being responsible' means. Want more information? Click here. Want to buy? Click the button below |
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Talks and Courses.
One person using simple everyday tools can bring the dynamic peace that enhances relationships in a family or organisation, even when faced with strong competition or bullying. Dynamic peace can be achieved more easily when the whole group works to establish quality relationships but usually someone has to make the first move. You could be the one who triggers the change that brings dynamic peace to your family, workplace or community group.
Want to make a difference in the world?
Go to our Action Page and find how you can become part of the people power that politicians take notice of. Join the millions who are educating themselves on issues that matter and then take nonviolent action to bring about change. It can be as simple as signing a petition. |
WHAT IS DYNAMIC PEACE?
If we think of peace as being 'tranquility', no human relationship can be peaceful and world peace will never be achieved. Some conflict is inevitable in human relationships. 'Dynamic peace' describes a relationship that grows stronger through conflict. 'Dynamic' means lively, vigorous, vibrant or changing. People in an equal relationship may strongly oppose each other's views but still experience inner peace and harmony. Dynamic peace exists when people seeking to resolve disputes and conflicts show mutual respect and compassion. This gives each the confidence to openly and honestly express their views. The guidelines of the process feature in all our activities and can be found in chapter five of Travelling the Road of Peace and Happiness. |
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