These are books and audio recordings I have found inspirational and helpful in the past several years.  There are Amazon.com links for those items available through Amazon.com.  Please let me know of your favorites and new discoveries that are not listed. 

From Debate to Dialogue: Using the Understanding Process to Transform Our Conversations
by Deborah L., PhD., Flick

Editorial Reviews
Carolyna Smiley-Marquez, Ph.D. The Diversity Factor
"It's as if we all have a piece of a large jigsaw puzzle and mistake our piece for the whole puzzle. I argue and debate, trying to convince others that I have the true picture," explained one of the author's clients. "Using the Understanding Process helps me to see that my piece is both valid and limited. When I get curious and inquire about the other puzzle pieces, other people's perspectives, I see a new, fuller picture." His analogy provides a useful visual summary of both the instructions and intentions of Dr. Flick's From Debate to Dialogue. The "Understanding Process" allows people, even those with strong differences, to relate to each other with curiosity and respect. From Debate to Dialogue is a motivational and instructional manual designed to free us of that non-productive pattern (of win or lose debate). Its readable 150 pages, including a how-to and a question and answer chapter, make it a useful classroom and instructional resource. Diversity education programs will find that inclusion of cross-differences dialogue, using this process, can propel participants' understanding and appreciation for the impact of differences on their lives and the lives of others at a level that assures healing and supports growth.

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