Hello, my friends, and welcome to our practice session.

In our practice sessions, we invite our featured guests to show off their negotiation and conflict resolution skills in a realistic scenario.

In this session, I want you to pay attention to what our guest does and not to what I do,

because while they are trying to show off their skills and teach you, I'm trying to frustrate their efforts in

different ways through things like aggression, annoyance, emotionality, or awkwardness.

And then after the practice session, we debrief and talk about what worked, what didn't work,

and what you can use in your next difficult conversation.

All right, everybody, welcome to our sparring session. I'm very

excited today because I get to be a narcissist, which is going to be so much fun. Today, of course,

we have Rebecca Zung, negotiator extraordinaire, focusing oftentimes on high conflict individuals

and people who struggle with narcissistic

personality disorder.

And so, Rebecca, can you kind of lay the foundation of what this sparring session is going

to be?

So this sparring session, I'm going to be playing the attorney, which is something I could

do.

I've been doing for a long time.

And I'm representing a wife who has been married and you are going to be representing being, being the husband,

not representing the husband, being the husband. And you are pro se, my client, meaning that you

don't have an attorney. And my client is a mother who has

been a stay-at-home wife. She has, she still has a couple of kids at home, two of them.

One is in high school, one is in middle school, and then one is in college.

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