Coming soon: Complex Everyday Conflicts
A podcast series for reflecting on conflicts with colleagues, neighbors, and strangers.
This fall I’ll be launching a new podcast series on navigating complex everyday conflicts in ways that are compassionate and trauma-informed.
Through this series, listeners like you will learn to connect with yourself, gain perspective, and expand your choices when conflicts surface in your life.
The series will focus on everyday interactions with colleagues, neighbors, and strangers, situations that can nag at us and drain our energy or, if approached thoughtfully, can help us glean new insight into ourselves, our relationships, and our lives.
Even everyday conflicts can quickly become complex because they often involve intersecting social locations, family histories, life experiences, belief systems, personal values, as well as forms of power. Unpacking these can take some effort, especially if we don’t have the skills.
But this series isn’t about in-depth therapy, and I won’t be giving medical, financial, or legal advice. In fact, I’m interested in supporting mutual care and mutual growth before situations escalate and those kinds of support are needed.
In this series, I will draw from my work with many teachers who’ve taught me what I otherwise wouldn’t have known: With appropriate support, we are all capable of learning how to move through the conflicts that arise in our lives in ways that are aligned with our values.
My understanding of conflict is also informed by numerous personal and professional experiences. I have a professional background that includes training and experiences in therapeutic somatics, mindfulness, nonviolent communication, group facilitation, human-centered decision making, change management, coaching, and trauma-informed practice (which includes understanding the role power and politics plays in trauma). Five years ago created a 40 day listening challenge, and my learning has grown tremendously since then.
The skills I’ve developed have helped me navigate complex conflicts within many different groups, networks, and contexts. Especially since we often aren’t taught these skills in our families, schools, or workplaces, I want to make them more available and accessible to more people.
Here’s why I’m creating this series now: There is not only a lot of conflict in our world right now, a lot of it is not being navigated in a way that is respectful and nonviolent. I believe that when we have the skills to navigate conflict in ways that generate more care, we will co-create the kind of world we all want to live in.
The learning is ongoing, and through this series I’ll be learning right there with you. I’m asking you to join me in the journey!
Please share with me your real-life situations and dilemmas, and I’ll consider speaking to them in an episode. Rest assured, all personal stories will remain anonymous. You can share them with me at tinyurl.com/everydayconflict. If I think it could benefit others, I may select your situation for a podcast episode.
If you have ideas or questions about this series, please leave a comment on this post—I’d love to hear them.
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