Anger is an intense emotional reaction, a feeling that is most common experience we share as human beings in response to a variety of situation. To some of us, it is explained to be annoyance, irritation, resentment, indignation, fury, rage, ire, and wrath a feeling of displeasure which we sometimes expressed in hostile behaviours. At […]
Dr. Emmanuel Kojo Hopeson’s Blog
The 9 Tenets of Our Mission on Earth
Our relevance in life is dependent on the understanding of our mission and assignment here on earth. Though you may not fully agree with me, these are the 9 tenets of our mission on earth that I have discovered for myself and want to share with you: – I. Man is a creature and […]
The Ideals of Conflict Prevention
Once we as humans are inter-related and interdependent, conflicts are unavoidable but are manageable and preventable. Human needs and emotions as factors in conflict are in the minds interaction with feelings and behaviours. Events causing conflicts and how individuals express their feelings will depend on their mindset or perceptions. We all have beliefs, values and […]
Social Priority and Cry Of The Family
What if the family system, its subsystem and members which formed the basic unit of our society could become peaceful hubs of positive attitudes, appreciation, productive intra and interpersonal relationship critical to social peace and development? What if we could significantly decrease hatred, bitterness, backbiting, trouble, pain, hurts, abuse and dissatisfaction in relationships and increase […]
Resolving CONFLICT with C.O.N.F.L.I.C.T.
As humans, we are relationship beings and are interdependent. We have a lot of things in common as a species, but we also have many individual differences that help us. It is these individual differences and interests that tend to breed disputes and conflicts among us. We are faced daily with situations that cause conflict […]
Three Simple Ways To Keep Your Mental Health
In one of the sessions in our just ended training programme in Leadership, Alternative Dispute and Conflict Resolution, we had a healthy discussion on how managing one’s intra-personal conflict is key to the management of inter-personal conflicts in our relationships at all levels. John Adams described life as a “Short Ride in a Fast Machine”, […]