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Happiness is not a luxury; it is our birthright. This bold statement is the 'golden thread' that runs through the tapestry of this book on Emotional Assertiveness. Fore-play, Fair-play and Foul-play covers what emotions are, the link between emotion and feelings, child development and parenting, the place of love and relationship and the central role of respect in achieving more happiness in our relationships and lives. Learn to recognise the difference between healthy and unhealthy emotional expression, and recognise that there are no negative emotions, only how we communicate emotion. John Parr has built a model to help people who like to think, get in touch with and use their emotions, and for those who have strong emotional responses, to think clearly. This book will help readers curious to learn how to problem solve their emotions and consequently, achieve healthy and mutually satisfying outcomes. The author provides practical tools for effective relating by expressing authentic emotion and reducing destructive forms of conflict. The book provides applications to day-to-day life, including family, working relationships and teams, as well as bringing emotional assertive behaviours into schools. The Emotional Assertiveness Model is built upon 25+ years of clinical psychotherapy practice and personal research as well as 30 years of management consulting practice.

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Before my husband and I met, life had presented both of us with some pretty stressful events which triggered deep emotions. As I got to know my future husband and listened to his life stories, I also witnessed how he had disconnected from authentic emotions related to some past experiences. John had played a pivotal role in my own life a couple of years earlier and I knew, if there was one person who would be able to help transition my husband from unconsciously suppressing deep pain towards accepting and fully embracing his emotions, it was John. I proposed to my husband that we do John's emotional assertiveness seminar together. Through John's loving being, his clarity and transparency, he authentically and easily creates an incredibly safe environment that allows every individual in the room to go deep and explore. As we went through John's program, my husband opened up to a 40-year-old deep emotional wound and allowed himself to feel, accept, make peace and fully embrace his authentic emotions. Unlocking this one particular moment in his life has liberated his emotional world, which has enriched our relationship in a beautiful way. For me, as an Executive Coach, coaching high-performing CEOs and Executives, John's work is priceless in my business. The brilliance of John's model makes it easy for high-performing CEOs and executives to re-connect with their authentic emotions, with love, and become transformational and influential leaders. -Nicole Heimann, Co-CEO, Heimann Cvetkovic & Partners AG, Author of How to Develop the Authentic Leader in You and multi award-winning CEO-Coach John distils his 38 years decades of experience as a psychotherapist and makes it accessible to us in simple language. The exercises are easy to follow. If you want a practical tool that can change the way you look at and do relationships, look no further. Come prepared with a pen and paper and be ready for some intense wow moments! -Parul Banka, Career Coach, Speaker and Author. I recommend this book to you. It summarises the model John used in my successful recovery from Crohn's disease over thirty years ago now. John's model of Emotional Assertiveness was instrumental in my learning to recognise and use my emotions to achieve psychological, emotional, and physical wellbeing. I now no longer need medications to treat my symptoms, rather when I experience a pain in my gut, I use it to alert me to apply what I know. The pain then goes, it is my barometer. -Julie Guest MSc Psychotherapy I have attended an Emotional Assertiveness seminar led by John. There I learned a lot about how to identify my authentic emotions, instead of resorting to unhealthy cover-up emotions, that lead to unproductive conflict. Thanks to the solutions offered on the seminar I now practice using my emotions in a healthy way. Within just a week, the results in my personal life were positive, I am unlocking myself. Additionally, the model benefited me in my role as a people manager. I highly recommend the training and the description of the model in this book. Both you and the people you connect with will gain from the skills you learn. -Fanny Carouge, Director of Commercial Data and Insights, Immediate Media

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John Parr, MSc psychotherapy, developed the Emotional Assertiveness Model in 1995 whilst working as a psychotherapist. As he honed the model, developing techniques to facilitate application, he saw more and more clients benefit. This led to him writing a MSc Thesis on the subject. His model is now used in industry for team development, in schools to train children and teachers to communicate emotions, in families to improve family dynamics, in coaching and psychotherapy.

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