Conflict Owner's Manual
we show how your conflict competencies help you do conflict better.
Our logo is a dandelion because conflict is like a weed you don't want in the garden. Since it's there you want to know how to manage it, keep it from spreading, and feel good about how you dealt with it.
Dr. Deborah Sword is a specialist in conflict analysis and management. Tyson Bankert is a community facilitator and artist. We have decades of experience and training in helping people expand their conflict competencies.
Podcasting since 2024 • 105 episodes
Conflict Owner's Manual
Latest Episodes
107 Have you done your conflict communication audit?
Perhaps you ask: "What's a conflict communication audit and why do one?" It isn't like a corporate communication audit of executive memos and such. Do you understand how you show up in a conflict? Your conflict communication audit includes your...
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105 Resolution emerges from owning your conflict
Here's what's unique about this podcast: Our belief is that you already have skills to manage conflict. We help you practice your skills, so you improve your conflict competencies. Rather than focusing on resolving any particular confl...
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Episode 105
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104 Superman's intentions are a conflict competence
The movie, Superman, is a fun practice tool for analyzing how intentions matter in conflicts. As you intend, your actions follow. As Superman fights Lex Luthor's metahumans on the battlefield, they also wage a media war of words to win public b...
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103 What are conflict competent responses to being offended?
It's achieved international newsworthiness that people are offending and being offended, cancelling and being cancelled, silent and being silenced. The headlines exist because someone insists that they have the only correct opinion. And, it mig...
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102 How is 'owning' your conflict a different skillset than resolving conflict?
Would you like to have the secret to resolving your conflict? The secret is: improve your conflict competency so you have skills to handle almost any conflict. No model or script is needed for the skills we encourage you to practice and use. Th...
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