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5 Practices of Resilient Relationships

What is a “resilient relationship?” It’s easy to feel confident and secure in a relationship that rarely experiences conflict. Resilience,…

What’s Your Conflict Style?

Each of us has a style of engaging conflict Conflict styles are largely learned Since they are learned, conflict styles…

11 Tips for Keeping Relationships Healthy in Conflicted Times

In this election cycle—complicated by a global pandemic, racial unrest, climate disasters, and economic challenges—tensions in our country feel like…

The Potluck of Ideas: How to tell whether an idea is harmful or just distasteful

What happens when someone brings a plate of dog poo to the potluck? In other words, a set of ideas that are indigestible, harmful, and destructive to the very concept of human dignity?

Brave Talk is Officially Released!

Combining real-life storytelling, engaging illustrations, and rigorous academic sources, Brave Talk blends humor, creativity, and interactive learning to help everyday people develop better skills for navigating conflict in order to build stronger relationships and healthier communities.

Talking Across Difference is a Revolutionary Act

These are painstaking times, times of anxiety and chaos. With political strife, health and economic crises, systems in disrepair, and…

The Fear Bunker: Where we go when we feel treatened

Fear plays an important role in difficult conversations and conflict transformation. In order to become conflict transformers, we need to…

Anti-Racism for Beginners: A Free 14-Session Class

A course designed for beginners covering the history and realities of racism in the United States, impact on contemporary issues, crucial concepts and ideas, and paths to allyship and further action.

Understanding and Honoring Anger

It can feel disorienting and overwhelming to find ourselves in a moment of anger, especially when that anger is on a grand scale, like political unrest. Understanding anger is challenging, let alone experiencing the emotion in the first place.

Why Domination Drives Conflict

For many years, I believed that power always equates with pride. I struggled with confidence, thinking I was supposed to be meek and apologetic, not powerful. I thought that holding strong opinions and speaking loudly with conviction were a dangerous game.