These articles and posts cover many Conflict Competencies. Since everyone experiences conflict sometime, conflict competence is a great life skill.
I use examples of conflicts in popular culture, fiction, nonfiction, and others’ imagination. My own experience of using conflict competence allowed me to deal with the wretchedness of quadruple (yes, four) mastectomies after I was diagnosed with a rare, potentially deadly breast cancer.
I teach Theory, demonstrate how theory is Implemented, and give Practice time. My answers are grounded in solid theory, have real life applications, and you can practice the strategies immediately. TIPs are my responses to your questions about conflicts, such as, how to prevent a conflict, manage your current conflict, or be prepared for your next conflict. Most are posed during workshops I teach, or that clients ask, or are submitted online.
In these posts I take a stand and analyze conflicts without my usual professional impartiality.
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Don’t you hate it when the computer eats your posts? I sure do. The list below is posts I wrote before upgrades to my site downgraded them into oblivion. I can recreate some of them and would happily try if you ask.
| Personal Decisions Create Peace | Apr 4, 2008 |
| Dissent is okay | Apr 6, 2008 |
| Conflict Life Cycles | Jun 16, 2008 |
| Travel for dialogue while we still can | Jul 1, 2008 |
| Conflict Mental Maps 1 | Jul 25, 2008 |
| Managing Conflict Reduces Stress | Aug 2, 2008 |
| Problem solving for success | Aug 8, 2008 |
| Interpretation and Conflict Competence | Sep 21, 2008 |
| SideTaker.com = conflict incompetence | Sep 22, 2008 |
| Deliberative Democracy – talking about difficult public issues | Sep 29, 2008 |
| Conflict Patterns | Oct 19, 2008 |
| Interconnecting Peace, Environment, Safety Health | Oct 19, 2008 |
| Talking with the enemy | Nov 16, 2008 |
| Perfect Storm, Perfect Opportunity | Nov 25, 2008 |
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