Peace Within, Peace Between: Your Relationship Toolkit - Paperback

by Linda Powers Leviton M. a. (Author)

Peace Within, Peace Between speaks to individuals of all ages who want to live fuller, more loving and satisfying lives, as well as to coaches and therapists who wish to be more effective in their professional efforts. Leviton's calm and straightforward prose offers easy-to-apply concrete skills using anecdotes, illustrations, stories, metaphors, bullet-point lists, and activity worksheets to introduce the theories and tools of Virginia Satir, pioneer of family therapy. The book is artfully crafted to appeal to auditory-sequential, visual-spatial, and tactile-kinesthetic learners, as well as the Gifted and twice-exceptional (those who also have learning, social or emotional challenges). This positive and practical approach to communication and connection engages and motivates readers injecting hope into even the most difficult interactions. These ideas would be an asset in any relationship or setting. Peace Within, Peace Between: Your Relationship Toolkit is a positive, entertaining, useful and effective guide to finding the love we all want to feel; for ourselves, our partners, our children, our parents, and the world.

Author Biography

Linda Powers Leviton, M.A., is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist who counsels, coaches and consults people of all ages on a range of topics related to communication, relationships, parenting, education, giftedness and learning styles. She currently is the West Coast Director of the Gifted Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com). Linda grew up in Los Angeles, Ca. with two handicapped siblings, attending GATE programs in LAUSD. She met Dr. Linda Silverman in 1964. This led to a life-long Mentorship, Friendship, and Professional Collaboration includ¬ing co-authoring articles such as "In Search of the Perfect Program," which has been reprinted six times and continues to be relevant more than 20 years after its first publication. Graduating from Pitzer College with honors in Psychology and Art, she attended the Claremont Graduate School Teaching Internship Program and eventually Phillips Graduate Institute in Clinical Counseling. Since 1974, Ms. Leviton has developed and taught programs to help parents and educators best reach children with learning and emotional challenges, particularly the twice exceptional, those who are gifted and also challenged with social, emotional or learning challenges. Ms. Leviton offers training programs and workshops to help teachers, parents and administrators identify and teach visual-spatial and gifted learners (www.visualspatial.org) and she has written numerous articles on learning style, giftedness and personality. Other avocations include art, cartooning, being married for 25 years and raising three gifted and creative children. She can be reached at: www.leviton.org or www.giftedandcreativecounseling.com or by e-mail: linda@leviton.org