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Insights Into Conflict
Understanding Conflict
- When you disagree with someone, do you argue, fight, or try to force what you want?
- Do you try to get even or teach the person a lesson? Or maybe you give in and end up feeling dissatisfied with the outcome.
- How does it affect what you really want?
- What do you get and what do you lose from your usual way of dealing with conflict?
The intent of the 6-hour course is to encourage positive resolution of conflict by educating participants about conflict styles, the value and skill of cultivating curiosity and listening instead of reacting, and the choices we all have about how we manage conflict. In this class participants work with others to learn some new ways to think about disagreements that might help them carry less anger, have better relationships, and feel happier.
This interactive class supports healthy, informed choices regarding conflict. By the end of the course, participants will have accomplished these objectives:
What people are saying about Insights into Conflict
"Acting how I normally do in a conflict, I hurt people I really care about."
"In every conversation, take time to listen to the person and try to understand where the other person may be coming from."
"The next time...I will approach a conflict with a hope of a good ending/understanding."
Class Objectives
This interactive class supports healthy, informed choices regarding conflict. By the end of the course, participants will have accomplished these objectives:
- Completed an exercise in considering the positive and negative effects of various conflict resolution styles
- Considered their current values/beliefs and been exposed to alternative beliefs about conflict
- Experienced the ways in which perceptions can vary and their relevance to conflict resolution
- Explored attributes of conflict and its resolution
- Learned about alternative styles of managing conflict
- Looked at their personal relationship with conflict
- Practiced analyzing a conflict and recognizing choices
- Practiced listening (instead of reacting) while noting the effect that has on the person sharing the story and themselves
- Forcing what you want won't be the best for you in the long run
- There are two (or more) sides to every story
- You can control what you do, not what others do
- You have choices about how to handle conflict
What people are saying about Insights into Conflict
"Acting how I normally do in a conflict, I hurt people I really care about."
"In every conversation, take time to listen to the person and try to understand where the other person may be coming from."
"The next time...I will approach a conflict with a hope of a good ending/understanding."
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Carol Plante
DirectorPhone: 802-522-5566
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Alfred Mills
Reentry SpecialistPhone: 802-279-9467
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Eva Zimet
Outreach SpecialistPhone: 802-522-7341
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Community Justice Center
Physical Address
39 Main Street
Lower Level
Montpelier, VT 05602
Phone: 802-223-9606
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