Empowering Principles for Interpersonal Conflict (EPIC)
Learning to work through conflict peacefully, with courage, confidence, and compassion is a subject relevant to everyday life, for interpersonal conflict impacts the health of all relationships.
Whether people try to avoid conflict, bulldoze their way through it, or cave in to another's demands, what is held in common by all is the frustration and pain left in the wake of hurtful conflict interaction, and unreconciled relational issues that are so often the biggest obstacle to resolution.
However, when destructive interaction is changed to more peaceful behaviors, parties are better able to resolve personal issues and find a mutually agreeable solution to their dispute.
EPIC courses are designed to enlarge participants' knowledge and understanding of interpersonal conflict, and to increase their confidence and competence in dealing with the challenges it presents.
Based on the principles of the transformative approach to conflict, articulated by Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger in the first and second editions of The Promise of Mediation
(http://www.transformativemediation.org/transformative.php), the classes present a framework for approaching conflict that enables individuals to maintain their personal clarity and strength while giving consideration to others in the midst of difficult conflict.
Rather than offering sequential steps to follow or a checklist of techniques to remember, the workshop connects participants with the human experience of conflict, and with the capacities that lie within them to positively influence the conflict and transform the conflict interaction.
This interactive learning experience will make new contributions to the participants' toolbox of skills for dealing with conflict in their personal and professional relationships. It offers fresh ideas, thought-provoking content, and new paths to peace.
In this class participants will:
Acquire:
o New practical tools for moving forward in the pursuit of a more peaceful life
o Increased ability to manage relational differences in any context
Discover:
o Obstacles to their personal harmony in dealing with others
o Their internal capacities to effectively transform them
Learn:
o A different paradigm for responding to the discord in their life
o Two simple principles to guide their conflict behaviors
Free 30 minute phone consultation appointment for interested clients.
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