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TITLE: JUDO
WITH WORDS: An Intelligent Way to Counter Verbal Attacks AUTHOR: Berckhan, Barbara ISBN pb: 1 85343 532 5 PAGES: 180 LIST PRICE pb: £12.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: January 2001
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TITLE: JUDO
WITH WORDS: An Intelligent Way to Counter Verbal Attacks AUTHOR: Berckhan, Barbara ISBN pb: 1 85343 532 5 PAGES: 180 LIST PRICE pb: £12.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: January 2001
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| DESCRIPTION: This is a handbook
for verbal self-defence. Barbara Berckhan describes techniques of protecting
and defending oneself effectively in challenging communication situations
and how to shorten hostile interchanges and to stop provocations. Berckhan
explains how to prevent verbal attacks in the first place. One of the
essential features of the art of self-defence is a powerful appearance,
since preferred victims of verbal attacks are those who appear to lack
personal power. On the verbal level, people who appear unassertive often
tend to excessively apologise and belittle themselves and use words like
"maybe", "somehow" or "possibly", which make their statement sound more
tentative. The author draws on two main sources: insights gained from
the training she gives as a communications consultant, and principles
of Asian martial arts, which then applies to verbal self-defence. The
result is a "verbal judo", which aims at fending off an attack and restoring
peace rather than continuing fight. The book concludes with a training
programme that is designed to help the reader internalise the strategies
presented.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Barbara Berckhan works in private fields of communication consultancy, psychotherapy and speech training. She is author of numerous best-selling self-help books. |
