CLOSURE: Central Library will be closed Tuesday, July 21, through Saturday, July 25, while emergency repairs are made to the building’s cooling system. We expect to reopen Monday, July 27. Click for more details on holds, program schedules, and returns during the closure. 

Notice of Public Meeting: Kalamazoo Public Library Board of Trustees | July 27 | 5:30 pm | Central Library/Van Deusen Room. The packet of information for the meeting can be found on the library’s website. 

NOTICE: Due to a power outage, Oshtemo Branch Library is closed Tuesday, July 21 until further notice.  

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Mindful Communication for Less Conflict and Stronger Relationships

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Learn the foundations of mindful communication to communicate with more self-awareness and emotional intelligence and reduce conflict and strengthen your relationships at work.

In this course, communication professor Melanie Whitney teaches the foundations of mindful communication in order to speak with greater emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and conflict competence. She first helps you identify ways that your ego impacts your communication and ways to spot and lessen your reactivity while communicating. She then outlines techniques to deepen self-awareness while communicating by recognizing the ways you communicate with yourself, and shares simple mindfulness strategies to stay present during communication with others. Finally, she shows you how to navigate even the most challenging conversations through mindful listening and shares strategies to communicate in ways that invite connection and alignment. This course includes AI-powered Role Play. Role Play allows you to practice what you’ve learned in interactive simulations of real-world conversations.

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