by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
I teach a course on Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution at Servants University. Something I’ve taught for years is that, in a conflict resolution, the stronger party has the moral obligation to initiate reconciliation by going to the weaker party to initiate a...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
Last week, on pediatric emergency medicine, I remember fondly my 20-month old patient with an upper respiratory infection. Even though his mother had brought him to the ER to get help for him, he wouldn’t cooperate with me to allow me to examine him and give him...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | Leadership, PEACEMAKING HABITS, WORK AS CALLING
“Traveler, there is no path; the path must be forged as you walk.” Antonio Machado “Our highest calling is to grow into our own authentic selfhood, whether or not it conforms to some image of what others think we ought to be. In doing so, we find not...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
A few years ago, I did a video on the five conflict resolution styles for a conflict transformation course I was teaching at Servants University in Austin Texas. Check it out. I think it could bless you.
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | FAITH, PEACEMAKING HABITS
The Overwhelming Majority of the World Believe in a Universal God or Spirit According to the Pew Research group, 89% of American’s believe in God. We find God referenced by presidents from both parties frequently. They often close their speeches with God bless...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | COACHING, PEACEMAKING HABITS
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is Motivational Interviewing? A simple definition:...
