Wiser Conflict
Change your conflicts. Change your life.
Now more than ever, we all need conflict resolution skills.
Wiser Conflict is a comprehensive five-part training course that will help you and your team:​
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Recognize conflict as an opportunity for positive change
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Understand and manage strong emotions
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Overcome barriers to communicate effectively
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Build courage to negotiate needs and resolve conflict
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Appreciate the power and promise of collaboration
Marina shares the wisdom in Wiser Conflict
About the Wiser Conflict Course
Wiser Conflict is a practical, powerful, and innovative training program that brings emerging brain science and mindfulness practices to traditional conflict management skills. This training is designed to help overcome the typical challenges to putting collaboration and conflict skills to use by empowering you with compelling science and practical applications of mindfulness. You will learn:
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Conflict theory
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Empathy and communication skills
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A five-step problem-solving process
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Negotiation strategies
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How to move from reactive conflict to proactive collaboration.
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You’ll have the opportunity to practice and apply the concepts and skills through group discussion, individual reflection, skill-strengthening exercises and roleplays.
Five steps to solving a problem with Wiser Conflict:
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PAUSE to ​​prepare yourself to engage in conflict wisely
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LISTEN mindfully to really hear what others need
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SPEAK your truth clearly, with kindness and courage
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WEAVE together the important needs of those involved
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CONCUR on the best path forward and clarify agreements
What You Can Expect
Wiser Conflict Course:
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Five live 2-hour training sessions
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One private coaching call
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One group coaching call
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Digital workbook and reusable tools
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A certificate of completion for 10 hours of training
Apply Today
Applications for the Winter 2023 Cohort are currently being accepted! Review the course details, pricing, and brief application here.
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Wiser Conflict can also be customized for any
team, group, organization, or individual. For more information about packages and pricing, contact Marina (marina@mappingchange.com).
Course Overview
Collectively, the five modules of Wiser Conflict are designed to give you everything you need to change how you feel about, approach, and handle interpersonal conflicts at home, work, and everywhere in between. Wiser Conflict starts with understanding your own perceptions, experiences, and hard-wired reactions to conflict; takes you through the messy middle working with another for mutual understanding, and; prepares you work for an outcome that satisfies all. Built from foundational theories of conflict resolution, emerging brain science, and traditional mindfulness practices, this training focuses on practical skills that you can use immediately.
Build your Competence.
Enhance your Confidence.
Find your Courage.

Pause
Conflict Theory
Collaborative problem-solving
Overview of Wiser Conflict
Step 1: Pause

Weave
Collaborative problem
Asking powerful questions
Step 4: Weave

Listen
Conflict management styles
Understanding wants & needs
Step 2: Listen

Concur
Closing with conviction
Step 5: Concur
From conflict to collaboration

Speak
Dealing with difficult dynamics
Discovering your truth
Step 3: Speak

Reflect
Private Coaching Call
Group Coaching Call
Practical Resources