Blogs
You will find useful articles on conflict-related topics.
Invent your own emotion
While I was preparing our Working with Emotions in Conflict online course, I came across a great exercise and I’m going to challenge you all to participate! It’s from Lisa Feldman Barrett‘s book How Emotions are Made (an essential book in this field). As you may know, the bigger vocabulary we have to describe our emotions,
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: When Stories Clash by Gerald Monk and John Winslade
When Stories Clash: Addressing Conflict with Narrative Mediation by Gerald Monk and John Winslade In this short book, Monk and Winslade provide an overview of how they use narrative mediation to help people in conflict separate themselves from their conflict stories and to develop a new, joint story of the relationship they would prefer. Narrative
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall
The Storytelling Animal: How stories make us human by Jonathan Gottschall This book explains how humans are natural storytellers – in fact, storytelling may be one of the essential things that makes us human! Gottschall draws on research in neuroscience, psychology and evolutionary biology to show how fundamental storytelling is in shaping our beliefs, behaviours
WHAT I’VE BEEN READING: Farsighted by Steven Johnson
Farsighted: How we make the decisions that matter the most, by Steve Johnson This book is a brilliant exploration about decision making. I love it on so many levels: it provides some very practical tools and strategies for making complex decisions; it discusses the importance of both science and story (including the benefits of reading
Conflict Management in Turbulent Times
Managing conflict is always a nuanced and complex issue. However, in today’s post-pandemic world, many practitioners are finding their work especially challenging. From adapting to working online to supporting people in conflict directly over covid-related issues (such as vaccination), to encountering clients experiencing additional stressors relating to covid that impact their capacity to manage other
Working with conflict in an online environment
Whether at work, at home, or in a community setting, conflict is practically inevitable, and conflict, by its very nature, is complex. The recent global pandemic has added new layers of complexity to managing conflict, due to much of our work and community settings moving to online platforms. Managing conflict in an online environment presents
