Along with the people involved in conflict, the practitioners supporting them also experience emotions before, during and after any interactions. The practitioners’ emotions may have an impact (positive or negative) on the clients, and the reverse is also true – the clients’ emotions may have an impact (positive or negative) on the practitioner. It is important that conflict practitioners are aware of, and can regulate, their own emotions because our work exposes us to others’ emotions and those emotions can impact on our own emotions (affecting both our professional practice and personal wellbeing), and how we experience, regulate and express our own emotions impacts on ourselves (professionally and personally) and our clients.

In the webinar you will:

Discover how the practitioner's and client's emotions interact.

Learn the importance of practitioner emotional agility.

Explore techniques to work with your own emotions when supporting clients in conflict.

About your trainer

Dr Samantha Hardy is the principal of Conflict Coaching International, and the Director and Lead Trainer for The Conflict Management Academy. She is an experienced mediator and conflict coach and the founder of the REAL Conflict Coaching System™. She provides conflict support to managers and leaders across the world. She also provides professional development training, supervision and mentorship to mediators and coaches who work with clients in conflict.

Sam has been accredited as a mediator under the Australian National Mediation Accreditation System and is a Certified Transformative Mediator by the US Institute of Conflict Transformation. She is a Certified Narrative Coach.

In 2021 Sam was awarded the Australian Resolution Institute Award for Service to Dispute Resolution for her leadership and innovation in the field. She was also awarded 2022 Conflict Coach of the Year at the Australian Dispute Resolution Awards.

Sam holds a PhD in Law and Conflict Resolution, as well as other postgraduate qualifications in adult education.

Sam is a well known trainer and university educator, holding adjunct appointments at a number of universities in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA.

Sam has also published widely in conflict resolution, including her books Dispute Resolution in Australia, Mediation for Lawyers and Conflict Coaching Fundamentals: Working with Conflict Stories.

In the webinar you will:

Discover how the practitioner's and client's emotions interact.

Learn the importance of practitioner emotional agility.

Explore techniques to work with your own emotions when supporting clients in conflict.

About your trainer

I want to know more about practitioner emotions!