The Adult Forum

December 6 – Emotional Disarmament and Practical Peace: Connecting Without Conceding with guest presenter Omar Khan

We have lost the art of connecting without conceding — the sense that to stay in the room with someone is already to have surrendered something. Drawing on Victor Hugo’s Inspector Javert from Les Misérables, on M. Scott Peck’s work in community building, on a Washington that could once govern across the aisle, and on a Montana town that answered hatred with paper menorahs, Omar Khan asks what it costs to lay down the armor we mistake for integrity — and what becomes possible when we do. Peace becomes practical when we incarnate it, not a second before. Omar Khan is founder and principal of 3S Catalyst Consulting and the creator of the Loving Assertiveness methodology. Over thirty-five years he has worked with leaders in more than fifty countries, from boardrooms to post-conflict reconciliation in Sri Lanka. He was mentored by the psychiatrist and author M. Scott Peck, with whom he developed The Nobler Alternative — a manuscript that will finally see publication in 2027. He has been named by Consulting Magazine among the top twenty-five consultants globally, and is the author of Loving Assertiveness, Timeless Leadership, Liberating Passion, and Synergy, among others. He and his wife recently made Baltimore their home.