489 Doug Noll - Overcoming Disabilities and Thriving With Outdoor Adventures

I'm excited to introduce this week's guest, Doug Noll. Doug was born with multiple disabilities: he had both audio and visual disabilities as well as two club feet. After struggling with sports in school, he turned to Scouts and the outdoors and started to thrive.

Doug is a whitewater guide, Level III PSIA ski instructor, sailor, and fly fisher. He has also been a rock climber, mountaineer, competitive swimmer, and Class IV kayaker. His various outdoor adventures have taught him discipline, persistence, patience, mental endurance, and fortitude, which he applies in his career as a peacemaker and mediator.

In this episode, we discuss Doug's adventures, how he overcame his disabilities to thrive in the outdoors, and what he's learned over the years.

 

About Doug Noll

Douglas E. Noll, JD, MA left a successful career as a trial lawyer to become a peacemaker. His calling is to serve humanity, and he executes his calling at many levels. He is an award-winning author, teacher, trainer, and highly experienced mediator. Doug's work carries him from international work to helping people resolve deep interpersonal and ideological conflicts to training life inmates to be peacemakers and mediators in maximum-security prisons.

His fourth book, De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less, was published by Beyond Word Publishing in September 2017. De-Escalate is now in four languages and in its second printing.

He is the co-founder of Prison of Peace, and creator of the Noll Affect Labeling System. In 2012, Doug was honored by California Lawyer Magazine as California Attorney of the Year.

 

Doug's Links

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• DN YouTube
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• Pinterest 
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Listen To This Episode

    

 

What You'll Learn

• How Doug overcame his disabilities to thrive in the outdoors
• Meaningful moments in Doug's adventures and what he's learned from them
• How Doug's adventures informed his career as a mediator

 

Things We Discussed

• Doug's Difficult Conversations Project 
• Outward Bound 
• Counterstrain therapy 
• Rolfing 
• Peacemaking: Practicing at the Intersection of Law and Human Conflict 
• Sex, Politics & Religion at the Office: The New Competitive Advantage 
• De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less 
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