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Tongue Fu and Verbal Judo.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  Tongue Fu and Verbal Judo. I recently told a former police officer who is now a forensic psychologist about Cheri Maples, who found a way to inject the Buddhist approach of mindfulness into her training of police officers, including encouraging them to talk directly to other police personnel with whom they had beefs, rather than to let it boil into gossip and worse.   He suggested I also check out Tongue Fu and Verbal Judo .   The Verbal Judo program is run by George Thompson. VJ?s website says the program is about ?defusing conflict and redirecting behavior with words? Verbal Judo was originally developed for police, corrections, and security professionals and is now a required course in numerous states. More recently it has been tailored for other organizations (e...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 21, 2010 (boomark / email).