Dealing with Conflict

A fantastic approach that helps you unpack the issues, respond positively and find an effective solution that moves everyone forward...

This course will:

• deepen your understanding of why conflicts develop and escalate, the psychological factors involved and the cultural and contextual influences on our perceptions, experience and responses to conflict
• build your confidence and comfort around being in situations that involve conflict
• give you a range of skills and techniques that you can use with both individuals and groups, in therapy or the workplace – or with your friends and family – to resolve conflict constructively

It will also enable you to:

• help clients recognise conflict and understand their own responses to it
• help clients develop the skills to engage with conflict productively, so they are more likely to reach positive outcomes
• provide clients with a framework and structure for addressing conflict in a healthy way
• help clients become less fearful of conflict, so they don’t avoid it in ways that are unhelpful and to recognise the role of conflict in healthy relationships
• provide psychoeducation, explaining how barriers to needs can cause conflict and how this can be different in different cultural contexts

The course is interactive and experiential, with a focus on developing practical and transferable conflict resolution skills. It combines trainer input, discussion, small group activities and role-play to build your confidence when helping to resolve conflict at all levels, whether one-to-one or in organisations.

Why take this course

Conflict isn’t always destructive. Properly handled it can be creative and productive, leading to better outcomes and possibilities for all. Although conflict is a normal, ever-present possibility in our lives – between family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, and in our interactions with organisations – when it  becomes entrenched it can cause immense individual distress, and waste time and money.

Addressing interpersonal conflict using the psychological insights, concepts and proven techniques you will learn on the day, helps us to solve problems creatively and improve the health and wellbeing of those involved. To lead a healthy life we don’t need to avoid all conflict, but we do need to know how to approach it in ways which can help everyone involved meet their emotional needs, a win/win for all. Learning the human givens approach to conflict resolution helps to reduce the potential damaging consequences of destructive conflict and embrace the benefits of constructive conflict.

Throughout the day, Rupinder will draw on her own considerable practical experience of successful conflict resolution and mediation in a wide range of settings as she provides expert guidance and training in the psychological insights and skills you need to be able to constructively resolve conflict between individuals and/or groups.

Addressing conflict in the right way helps us solve problems and improves the health and wellbeing of everyone involved...

What the course covers

• The common causes of interpersonal conflict
• The negative impacts and potential benefits in conflict situations
• How to consider intentions and outcomes when engaging in conflict
• The different methods used to influence the outcome of conflict, and how the method influences the outcome
• What a resolution really is
• The cultural and contextual influences on perceptions, experience, and responses to conflict
• The role our innate needs and resources play in conflict situations
• Identifying our influence on the process of conflict
• Effective skills to engage people who are in conflict
• A practical, sequenced model for effective mediation and conflict resolution
• An effective framework for facilitating constructive conversations
• How to structure a session/s to: facilitate resolution, increase engagement, understanding and define the needs of all parties
• Effective skills to facilitate negotiations
• Techniques and diffusing strategies to reduce potential barriers
• How to access resources to build agreements that last
• The effective skills needed to facilitate negotiations
• How to implement opportunities in organisations to address conflict effectively
• Ways to develop your leadership ability to respond to conflict and/or support others who are enduring it
• How to use this to support the process of resolution by improving how individuals relate to one another and addressing the contentious issues constructively
• And much more…

Course Programme

The ‘Conflict Resolution’ course starts at 9.30am and runs until 4.00pm.

Who is this course suitable for?

• This course is for anyone wishing to understand more about the different ways conflict can affect us, or to feel more confident in a facilitation or leadership role when helping conflicted people
• It is also very relevant to anyone working in a supportive role – such as counsellors, psychotherapists, managers, HR staff, life coaches, Mindset Coaches, social workers etc. – as well as employees, customer service personnel and anyone working in schools and education.

This course has been independently accredited by the internationally recognised CPD Standards Office for 6 hours of CPD training.

On completion of this training you’ll receive CPD certificates from the College and the CPD Standards Office.