How to talk?

by Susan Campbell

How to talk?b A frank conversation that solves situations that are blocked and tangled b The most important precondition for good communication in human relationships is the ability to be faithful to the present moment. It is important to recognize that when you are feeling incomplete about recent or very old things, you can not stay in the present at all. At this point you are completely here, ie, not staying in the present. Author Susan Campbells advice gives a simple yet powerful stimulus. She offers seven guidelines that will dramatically improve your communication skills. Through this book, she explains how you can be completely honest with your spouse, friend, co-worker, or business partner. The author explains how communication can be transformed into a process of direct and active engagement, and provides a concise and practical insight into it.

Paperback

Published April 30, 2012

About the author

Susan Campbell is an award-winning environmental journalist, author, and communications specialist. She covered the Fox River and Green Bay cleanup controversy from 1995 through 2000 as environmental reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Her extensive Fox River reporting won national and state honors, including a national “Best of Gannett” award for specialty reporting in 1997; an enterprise reporting award from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association in 1997; beat, staff enterprise, and specialty reporting awards from Gannett in 1997, 1998, and 2000; and a spot news award from the Milwaukee Press Club in 1999. The Fox River stories were also honored by the local Green Bay community, earning the “Conservation of Natural Resources Award” from the Green Bay Mayor’s Beautification Committee and the “Clean Bay Backer Award” from the Remedial Action Plan Committee.

Campbell is also co-author of Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002) with the late Earth Day founder U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson. Her articles have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Psychology Today and Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. She’s shared her passion for local newspapers as an adjunct journalism instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and for the environment as a public speaker in classrooms and at Earth Day events.

After her newspaper career, Campbell championed Great Lakes protections, notably passage of the landmark Great Lakes Compact, as communications manager for the Chicago-based Alliance for the Great Lakes. In 2017 she branched out to focus on sustainable real estate, promoting energy efficiency in homes and working to raise the profile of sustainable homes nationally as a founding member of the National Association of REALTORS’ Sustainability Advisory Group.