I want to learn more about apology

Recommended Reading:

1. apology mediation in divorce mediation and other contexts
2. apologies and healing relationships
3. communication between those who were victims and those who offended
4. self forgiveness and mourning
5. workplace apologies
6. medical negligence apologies
7. apologies and personal responsibility
8. international apologies
9. apology news

Recommended Reading (including authors etc)

1. apology mediation in divorce mediation and other contexts: What It Means To Be Sorry (article by Carl Schneider)
2. healing relationships: The Power of Apology (extract of book by Beverly Engel)
3. communication between those who were victims and those who offended: 40 Cases Restorative Justice & Victim-Offender Mediation : (Free electronic book edited by Paul Crosland and Marian Liebmann) (NB Restorative Justice Consortium)
4. self forgiveness and mourning: (Marshall Rosenberg's 'Nonviolent Communication -a Language of Life', Chapter 9 - Connecting Compassionately with Ourselves)
5. workplace apologies: The One Minute Apology (extract of book by Ken Blanchard)
6. separating taking responsibility from taking legal liability: US medical campaign - SorryWorks Coalition
7. apologies and personal responsibility: (powerpoint presentation of Stephen Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Chapter 4; slide 9 onwards)
8. international apologies: imagined apology for slavery (From the novel, The Apologist, by Jay Rayner)
9. apology news (edited by Paul Crosland)

• asked for in many different ways.
• given in many different ways.
• sometimes part of a power-relationship
• sometimes about respecting our common humanity.

Is your interest in apology connected to:

• ideas about right and wrong?
• feelings of blame and guilt?
• feelings of shame and depression?

and / or

• communicating with compassion?
• understanding actions and the results of those actions?
• offering something that will help you both?