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Conscious Communication
Conscious Communication is a set of skills for any relationship that enable you to listen to another person without judgment and express your own feelings and needs without blame. These skills provide a template for healthy relationships based in mutual respect and equality. They enable people to better understand each other in times of emotional tension, and engender empathy and compassion in the midst of conflict.

The core of Conscious Communication is a three-step process of either listening or speaking which describes basic 1. feelings (raw unfiltered emotions) 2. facts (raw unfiltered data), and 3. impacts (information about how the situation affects the speaker in a tangible way). Other skills include understanding disconnects (common communication habits which interrupt the sense of connection and empathy and disable problem solving), open problem solving questions (actively helping the other person solve their own problem), and collaborative negotiation (a process of negotiation which enables the feelings and needs of both parties to be expressed, validated, and responded to).

This process of communication was developed by Miles Sherts, a professionally trained mediator, after twenty years of teaching communication and conflict resolution skills, and is described in Conscious Communication, published by Langdon St. Press in 2010. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Milessherts (talk • contribs) 15:52, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
 * What you have as a reference is a primary source. To show notability, please find two other authors that have written about the topic. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:35, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Neverwinter Trilogy
I'm looking to make an article for my junior composition class at Ohio University. I would like to make the article about the Neverwinter Trilogy by R.A Salvatore to have a page to go to from R.A Salvatore's wiki page and character pages. At this time I haven't gathered sources, but will do so promptly. I would list release dates, post pictures of the books, give a brief synopsis and other things of that sort. Just looking for some feedback on my plan. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joshua Holley (talk • contribs) 16:31, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * R.A Salvatore counts as a significant author. Can you find 2 or more reviews of the series?  If so it would justify an article on it. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:34, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Further Publications

 * Ocean-going catamarans. 1962. Ciba Technical Notes 231, Cambridge, UK
 * Tehini. October 1970, Yachting Monthly, UK. Seminal article on Design approach.
 * The Stable Multihull. 1976. (Researched for 1st World Multihull Symposium, Toronto.)
 * The Sailing Community. 1978, Wooden Boat, USA, Prize-winning proposal for ‘Waterborne International Communities’.
 * Catamaran Stability – Figures, Facts and Fictions. 1991. Practical Boat Owner, UK. Also published in several other countries.
 * Nomads of the Wind. October 1994. Practical Boat Owner, UK. Analysis of the sailing qualities of the Polynesian Double Canoe.
 * Going Dutch: The Tiki Wing Sail Rig. 1998, Practical Boat Owner, UK. Also published in several other countries, incl. Australia, Holland and France.
 * Lessons from the Stone Age Sailors, A Study of Canoe Form Craft in the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
 * ‘Vikings go Home’, Nov. 2008. Classic Boat, UK. (Article about voyage of the 100ft Vikingship reconstruction ‘Seastallion’ from Dublin to Denmark).
 * There seems to be a lot of self published or material connected with the man this is about. He looks to be interesting, but hopefully there are more independent writing about him, for example in newspapers. I am assuming that he wrote what is in  Further Publications. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 07:54, 14 April 2012 (UTC)