Start with “Hello” to Manage Conflict

Start with “Hello” to Manage Conflict

Start with “Hello” to Manage Conflict As well as coaching individuals who are embroiled with conflict, I often coach CEOs, HR professionals, executive directors and managers about how they can deal with their employees’ conflict. Recently, I did a...
Healing our Divisions in Troubled Times

Healing our Divisions in Troubled Times

How can we heal the deep divisions in our country? How do we talk to each other with compassion and empathy across our differences? My blog, which I have been writing for eleven years this month (!) is one small place to start. I confess I am deeply grateful and...
Conflict and Culture on a Voyage to Mars

Conflict and Culture on a Voyage to Mars

A fictional voyage to Mars offers valuable lessons about resolving conflicts across differences. I recently watched Away, a beautiful miniseries about a near future journey to Mars. It was a suspenseful adventure drama, and, an inspiring model of effective...
Fault lines/Property lines in Conflicts

Fault lines/Property lines in Conflicts

Understanding fault lines and property lines can help us resolve conflicts. Fault lines—as a Californian I’m familiar with fault lines, the locations where tectonic plates meet and can shift, creating earthquakes. I live right on one of the smaller ones, the Steven’s...
Fight or Flight & other so-so responses to conflict

Fight or Flight & other so-so responses to conflict

Fight, Flight, Freeze—that what neurobiologists say are our ancestral (and current) unconscious response choices in a threatening or conflict situation. I recently came across a similar expression in a spiritual recovery book: blaming, running, or freezing.  In my...