Dr. Andrea Molberg
SaddleBrooke Author’s Emergency Kit for Finding Common Ground
Diana Steinke
Psychologist and SaddleBrooke author Dr. Andrea Molberg spent her career resolving conflicts, evaluating job candidates, developing leaders, teaching people skills, and helping people get along at work and at home. Never did she think about applying those tools to the political world—until now.
Designed to help bridge the divide and stuffed with tools for talking about tough issues, her Emergency Kit for Finding Common Ground: Helping Americans Get Along is coming out as both an Amazon ebook and paperback. Molberg’s goal is to bring Americans together during this age of polarization, COVID-19, economic crisis, and racial tension.
As she explains, “People are making masks, serving on the front lines, and peacefully marching. This is my contribution to pull Americans together. I never want to hear my grandchildren ask me, ‘Why didn’t you do something?’”
On the back cover of her interpersonal toolkit, you’ll see an endorsement from the national influence guru and ASU professor Robert Cialdini. Inside you’ll find chapters titled “Starting with Empathy for Both Sides,” “Getting Off the Defensive,” “How to Disagree without Being Disagreeable,” and “Having Courage, Confidence, and Hope” with strategies and inspiration to use them. The book encourages respect and provides skills for difficult conversations.
Andrea was on the undergraduate and graduate faculty at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis/St. Paul and over a span of 30 years taught thousands of business professionals at the UST Center for Business Excellence. She has worked extensively with the Mayo Clinic, Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, governmental agencies, and individuals. Semi-retired, she is currently a senior faculty member of the College of Executive Coaching working with CEOs, MBAs, mental health professionals, and human resource professionals.
You may know Andrea from the pickleball court and the articles she writes about both the Community Circle Players’ dinner theatre productions and the Strategic Planning Committee of which she’s a member. She also teaches a managing conflict course for SaddleBrooke’s Institute for Learning in Retirement.
This Was Not Her First Rodeo and An Occurrence Near Eugene, Oregon by Stuart Watkins
You Know of Whom I Speak by Stuart Watkins
SaddleBrooke Author Publishes Chapter Books
SaddleBrooke poet, author, and cowboy poet, John Stuart Watkins, published two chapbooks* in May: This Was Not Her First Rodeo and An Occurrence Near Eugene, Oregon contains two stories in large print. It is available at Amazon Books or from the author. The first story is about a teacher getting swindled by a student he thought was much older. The second story involves strange events that happen to loggers near Eugene, Ore. and a teacher and son traveling to take a new teaching position in Eugene, Ore. With dead deer, dead lumberjacks, this is an unsolved mystery.
Also available at Amazon Books or from the author is You Know of Whom I Speak, which contains cowboy poems, soldiers returning home from wars, love poems, humorous writes, and some serious writing to stimulate your mind.
*A chapbook is identified as a book with not enough pages to include the title of the book on the spine.