Episode 2: Workplace Dynamics, Neurodiversity, and Asking for Help

I’m delighted to share with you Episode 2 of the Complex Everyday Conflicts podcast series!

For this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with someone about a conflict they are navigating with a work colleague.

Through our rich, emergent dialogue, many issues came to the surface—that’s right, this series is about complex everyday conflicts.

Our discussion included topics such as:

• Work structures and dynamics, how they impact us and our work relationships, and the choices we have when navigating them

• The role of neurodiversity and trauma, and how they impact our behaviors and needs

• How we often perceive and respond to personalities different from our own, and how these relationships can actually help us grow

• The stories we tell ourselves about situations we are in, and how to be with what’s really going on for us and see the choices we have

• How our values can both create tension and help us identify various possibilities

• Asking for help, and how we can do it with compassion for ourselves and others

I hope listening to this real-life story helps you recognize how these themes might show up in your life, connect to the perspectives and ideas shared, and discover new choices you might consider for yourself.

If you enjoy this episode, please share it with others! Or you can leave me a tip if you wish.

I want to continue to share about situations that listeners like you can relate to. In fact, I hope to share an episode next month full of responses to listener questions, hopefully with some stories of my own.

Please leave a comment with any questions you have, or visit tinyurl.com/everydayconflict to learn about sharing your story with me.

Recommended related resources:

• Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive by Kristin Neff

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg PhD

• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen