Practical Strategies for Addressing Conflict in our Everyday Lives
May 22, 2020
Update: June 8, 2020 – ALL SESSIONS FULL!
Thank you to everyone for the enthusiastic interest in our webinar series. We at the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies are greatly encouraged by the high demand for this content. That said, we are unfortunately not in a position to offer additional sessions this summer, nor can we commit to recording and sharing these sessions owing to the intimate nature of the conversations our trainings elicit from participants. Providing this training online is a new undertaking for our facilitators and we expect to learn a lot from this experience. Once we get through this initial pilot series we intend to spend time reflecting on ways to potentially scale participation in the future. Please bear with us as we work on building our capacity to meet your needs and interest.
A 5-part Webinar series offered by the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies at Austin Community College
Recent changes in our normal modes of living and working have stretched our normal resources for dealing with stress. This overload has in turn contributed to a rise in conflict.
The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies invites the ACC community to join us for a webinar series as we discuss conflict within a framework of justice and an understanding of power imbalances, help you gain self-knowledge, and practice essential skills for dealing with conflict.
The webinar series will actively engage participants via real-time exercises, cohort processing (such as pair & share, group share), and provide opportunities for sustained engagement via a moderated community blog hosted on ACC’s Center for Peace & Conflicts Studies website.
What to Expect
- Five biweekly webinars (you may register for one or more sessions)
- 1.5 hours of PD credit for each session,
- Each session is limited to 20 registrants
- Co-facilitated by Charlotte Gullick, Shirin Khosropour, and Grant Potts,
- Opportunities for sustained engagement via a moderated community blog hosted on the PACS website.
Dates & Topics
Thursday, June 11, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Session 1 Role of Conflict in Relationships and Basic Human Needs
- Examine the role of conflict in relationships from intrapersonal to intergroup
- Define basic human needs and how they contribute to conflict
- Define power imbalances and how they contribute to conflict
Thursday, June 25, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Session 2 Role of Emotions and Culture in Conflict
- Identify emotions that signal conflict
- Examine the starring role of anger in conflict
- Discuss the role of culture in conflict (ex. individualism and collectivism with self assessment)
Thursday, July 2, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Session 3 Role of Personal Conflict Styles
- Define conflict styles
- Classify your own conflict style
- Relate conflict styles to conflict transformation
Thursday, July 16, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Session 4 Effective Communication
- Demonstrate
- The role of “perception checking” in conflicts, and
- The effective use of “I” messages and questions
- Relate power imbalances to communication
- Contrast face-to-face vs. online communication
Thursday, July 30, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
Session 5 Problem Solving
- Examine the differences between positions and interests
- Demonstrate the influence of personal narratives in negotiations
- Generate best case/worst case alternatives for a collaborative negotiated agreement
Responses to "Practical Strategies for Addressing Conflict in our Everyday Lives"
Elizabeth Steinbach - June 3, 2020
I hope you will consider adding more sections as I went on an hour after I received the email and all sections – except the session (problem solving) were full.
- June 8, 2020
Thank you to everyone for the enthusiastic interest in our webinar series. We at the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies are greatly encouraged by the high demand for this content. That said, we are unfortunately not in a position to offer additional sessions this summer, nor can we commit to recording and sharing these sessions owing to the intimate nature of the conversations our trainings elicit from participants. Providing this training online is a new undertaking for our facilitators and we expect to learn a lot from this experience. Once we get through this initial pilot series we intend to spend time reflecting on ways to potentially scale participation in the future. Please bear with us as we work on building our capacity to meet your needs and interest.
Herb Coleman - June 4, 2020
Since all the first ones are full there should be a way to present in Webinar form so that others could watch but not participate or hopefully recordings will be made available after.
- June 8, 2020
Thank you to everyone for the enthusiastic interest in our webinar series. We at the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies are greatly encouraged by the high demand for this content. That said, we are unfortunately not in a position to offer additional sessions this summer, nor can we commit to recording and sharing these sessions owing to the intimate nature of the conversations our trainings elicit from participants. Providing this training online is a new undertaking for our facilitators and we expect to learn a lot from this experience. Once we get through this initial pilot series we intend to spend time reflecting on ways to potentially scale participation in the future. Please bear with us as we work on building our capacity to meet your needs and interest.
Jodi Oates - June 4, 2020
I wanted to participate, but all the sessions are full. Would you consider offering the seminars to the Deaf Faculty/Staff/Employees group? It would be much more productive if we are in the same communication mode (direct communication) during the sessions.
- June 8, 2020
Thank you to everyone for the enthusiastic interest in our webinar series. We at the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies are greatly encouraged by the high demand for this content. That said, we are unfortunately not in a position to offer additional sessions this summer, nor can we commit to recording and sharing these sessions owing to the intimate nature of the conversations our trainings elicit from participants. Providing this training online is a new undertaking for our facilitators and we expect to learn a lot from this experience. Once we get through this initial pilot series we intend to spend time reflecting on ways to potentially scale participation in the future. Please bear with us as we work on building our capacity to meet your needs and interest.
Jennifer Corte - June 8, 2020
Given that all 5 sessions filled up immediately, please consider offering more of these. I personally have a great interest/need for these topics. As others have said, it would be great for recordings of the presentations to be made available.
- June 8, 2020
Thank you to everyone for the enthusiastic interest in our webinar series. We at the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies are greatly encouraged by the high demand for this content. That said, we are unfortunately not in a position to offer additional sessions this summer, nor can we commit to recording and sharing these sessions owing to the intimate nature of the conversations our trainings elicit from participants. Providing this training online is a new undertaking for our facilitators and we expect to learn a lot from this experience. Once we get through this initial pilot series we intend to spend time reflecting on ways to potentially scale participation in the future. Please bear with us as we work on building our capacity to meet your needs and interest.
Lisa Moore - June 8, 2020
Please add more sessions
- June 8, 2020
Thank you to everyone for the enthusiastic interest in our webinar series. We at the Center for Peace & Conflict Studies are greatly encouraged by the high demand for this content. That said, we are unfortunately not in a position to offer additional sessions this summer, nor can we commit to recording and sharing these sessions owing to the intimate nature of the conversations our trainings elicit from participants. Providing this training online is a new undertaking for our facilitators and we expect to learn a lot from this experience. Once we get through this initial pilot series we intend to spend time reflecting on ways to potentially scale participation in the future. Please bear with us as we work on building our capacity to meet your needs and interest.