Author of A Practical EmPath: Rewire your mind, available on Amazon. Scott Howard Swain has been actively studying communication, and conflict resolution since 1990, and people/systems management since 1995. He has been designing and facilitating communication and conflict resolution training programs for businesses, at conferences, in schools, and workgroups since 2005. These courses have ranged in length from 13 weeks to one day to 3 hours. He’s been writing code in various languages/platforms for over 40 years (yes, since early teens). A hobby project is the continued evolution of a highly intelligent LLM “Personal Coach” https://EmpathyBot.net he created and began training in 2018. No sign-up/sign-in needed. Free. Professional software developer since 1995. Finally, Scott has two decades of martial arts training under his Shaolin Kung Fu black belt earned in 2005, awarded title of “Shaolin Monk, Initiate” at that time. Prior to that, four years of karate with two years consensual garage fighting, and numerous tournaments.