a Hope for Peace & Justice
Peace Practitioner™ Training Program
September 19-21, 2008

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Gain essential conflict management skills so that conflict won’t manage you! Conflict is all around us, but most people try to avoid it because they lack basic conflict management skills. Rather than react to conflict on a purely emotional level or purely cognitive level, learn to manage disputes and disagreements positively and proactively.

How You Will Benefit by Attending

1. Gain a new understanding of conflict
2. Understand your own conflict patterns
3. Improve your listening and communication skills
4. Learn to discern conflicts by integrating conflict models
5. Practice effective methods of intervention to your conflicts

Conflict is a part of life. There is simply no getting away from this fact. As a human being, you can be sure that you’ll face conflicts. No model exists that will totally eliminate disagreements or differences. In fact, the tension that comes from conflict can be healthy and beneficial to growth if dealt with correctly. Jean Varnier, founder of L’Arche communities across the world that support people with disabilities wrote, “Communities need tensions if they are to grow and deepen. Tensions come from conflicts…. A tension or difficulty can signal the approach of a new grace of God. But it has to be looked at wisely and humanly.” The question isn’t “Will I face conflicts?” but “How can I best manage conflicts when they arise?”