Tag: Conflict in fiction and popular culture
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Tips for Teaching Conflict Competence to Physically Distanced Children
A bored and lonely looking child picked berries one-by-one from my front hedge and mechanically ground each into the pile of snow I’d just swept from the public walk. In a ‘normal’ year, I might have given a short lesson about birds depending on berries in winter, or asked the…
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An Improbable Tale Of Alien Romance
This short story was my 2005 birthday gift to a friend. In 2008, mediate.com made an exception to its nonfiction content rules to publish it. In 2013, I added it to my first website, conflictcompetence.com, which became this URL in 2017. Somehow, that 2013 post got lost, so I’m reposting it…
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TV guide to conflict competence
A key message from Coaches is that we control only ourselves. Managing ourselves sounds easy and simple, and is hard and complicated. When someone’s in our face we get defensive. Self-control interferes with demanding fair rebuttal time. What if self control was within reach of the television remote control? Yes, you…
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Three hopeful truths for 2018
Enter 2018, fireworks on a revving motor Anyone else feeling inundated with endless stories of unsavoury behaviour? January enflames as if Santa delivered lumps of coal named rocket, collusion, accusation, harassment, misconduct, allegation, fabrication, confabulation, political polarization, melting polar icecap, tweetstorm, snowstorm, firestorm, mudslide, dirt, and doomsday. That’s just the…
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Does conflict competence make a good story?
Seventeen years ago, I wrote a novel about a Conflict Manager. For the past sixteen years, I’ve been editing it. My interest is in Conflict Managers’ thought processes as we work. The draft title is Regret Served Hot and Cold. What do you think of that? One theme is the protagonist’s…
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Will practice make up for lack of talent?
If I listen to the voices that tell me I can’t, or it’ll never happen, I ensure that I don’t and it won’t. If I try anyway, there’s at least a chance. Whose voices hold me back? Well, that’d be my inner voice and I’m no longer listening. I’m a…
Deborah Sword 