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Susan Halpern
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Thursday Nov 12, 2009 (7:30pm)
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$6 - $15
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SUSAN HALPERN
Finding the Words: Candid Conversations with Loved Ones
Susan Halpern has been a social worker and psychotherapist for more than thirty years. Her first book, The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can’t Find the Words, continues to be an important go-to manual for difficult times. Now in Finding the Words, Halpern offers principles and practical suggestions for those moments in relationships when one want to be kind but also must discuss a sensitive matter. She explains how to communicate with care in order to strengthen and increase our loving connections – by speaking from the heart, stating intentions, and using deep listening – while enabling navigation of difficult encounters.
Finding the Words, drawn from Halpern’s years of experience as psychotherapist, wife, and mother, suggests possible, scripted solutions and positive outcomes for a wide range of situations: a partner who needs to talk about the irritations of joint living, parents of an adult child who requires unexpected financial support, grandparents who don’t know how to intervene, siblings who disagree about politics or religion, and couples in times of crisis, illness, affairs, and divorce. Presenting life situations along with the words that can be used to cope with them, Halpern offers honesty with a great deal of vitality and wisdom.
7:30 PM
Corner of Durant and Dana, Berkeley
