This workshop is for local leaders who are currently dealing with conflict and want to gain skills and practice techniques to be more effective at transforming conflict.
Dealing with conflict at your workplace or within your local union team can be challenging, but if addressed effectively it can lead to greater solidarity.
During three days of sessions, through a variety of interactive activities and information sharing, participants will:
- Reflect on ideas and feelings around conflict and how they respond
- Gain a better understanding of different styles for dealing with conflict, and identify their go-to style
- Practice skills for deep listening and communicating
- Explore techniques to respond more effectively
- Consider the nature and cultural dynamics of conflict
- Explore the role that power and our social identity plays in conflict situations
- Learn about conflict models and use these models to practice moving from positions of interest to generating options for solutions.
- Explore ways of transforming conflicts into union activism
- Play with images, stories and metaphors to navigate conflict
- Have time to restore and re-energize
Please note, applications received after the deadline will not be accepted.
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