Conflict Owner's Manual
We help you use conflict competencies you already have, so you can do conflict better.
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.
Our logo is a dandelion because conflict is like a weed you don't want in the garden. But 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.
Podcasting since 2024 • 100 episodes
Conflict Owner's Manual
Latest Episodes
100 What elite athletes can teach about conflict competence
Elite athletes heal faster and manage pain better than most people. We can apply their techniques to improve our conflict competence and manage conflicts better than most people. So, what are those techniques, and how can we apply them to confl...
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Season 4
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Episode 100
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3:29
101 Are you missing opportunities to talk before you judge (and are judged)?
When someone posts about a conflict on social media, they can expect comments and judgment to pile on. Did the person who posted talk to the other parties in the conflict before asking everyone in cyberspace to judge? In this conflict analysis ...
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Season 4
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Episode 101
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10:55
98 What does it mean to own your conflict, and how do you own it?
Why would you want to own your conflict? When you don’t manage yourself in conflict, do you make the situation worse? Here are three steps to take towards owning your conflict, so that you can be the conflict competent person you want to be.
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Season 4
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Episode 98
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4:43
99 Not every conflict has to become a fight
We recorded this episode before this week's political assassination, but as I listen to the recording before posting it, that's what I think about. If we reduce a human being to just their politics, or to a single trait, or to one note of their...
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Season 4
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Episode 99
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9:03
97 How to use cartoons to practice conflict competence
You can practice conflict competence almost anywhere, using every interaction, even characters' dialogue in cartoons. Using two cartoons as examples, we analyze the scripts for the opportunities to understand each other that the characters miss...
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Season 4
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Episode 97
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11:46
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loved your latest podcast. The 3 point format is great. I liked the talk to your allies about a conflict. I always thought that was gossip
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