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Is Conflict Enjoyable?
Recently I came across an advertisement for conflict management and mediation training which described the training as entertaining and funny and the trainer described conflict as “enjoyable”.
... read moreA Context for Providing Feedback
This week I conducted a restorative mediation involving a staff member who has worked in the same profession (albeit in different organisations) for nearly 50 years.
... read moreHow do you know if you might offend someone?
To make sense of our experience, it is human nature to think in polarities – right/wrong, good/bad, yes/no, night/day, sharp/blunt, close/far, scarcity/abundance, and so on. However this penchant to polarised thinking also limits our perceptions.
... read moreTaking Sides (or Not)
The same experience was the high and low point of my legal career
... read moreAuthenticity at work - Our humanness in the workplace
In a restorative mediation process, people will often describe some of the challenges they have recently faced in their personal lives. They then might explain to me that they don’t let who they are at home affect who they are at work.
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