Conflict Resolution

Conflicts aren’t bad, they aren’t
good – they are inevitable.
Arnold Mindell

Conflict is about change. It is a ‘symptom’ of transformation that, when properly picked up and worked with, can lead to health and harmony. The conflicts that erupt in groups can be seen ultimately as a gift. They are the ‘fire’ or energy that mobilises us into action.
From a new and more global perspective, the very issues that are seen as problems within one framework offer the basis for new potential and creativity in another.

Disavowed conflicts can lead to outright war, low grade depression and create a lack of passion and enthusiasm in our place of work and in our lives in general. If we do not learn how to pick up and make use of the initial signs of potential conflict, situations will escalate into violence.

By allowing these atmospheres, tendencies and conflicts to come out in a non-judgmental way the individual, couple or group is able to expand its identity, bringing increased awareness and resolution. What at first appears to be conflict or chaos, once given the chance to express itself, allows an exciting new pattern that had not been visible until now to emerge. We need an appreciation for turbulence that may herald new emergent paradigms or else we may try to re-establish worn out and inefficient ways of doing things.

Our aim is to help people to develop the skills to work with conflict while it is still manageable. We offer a facilitated environment to support people to learn how to identify the first signs of conflict, and to work with it from outside of their personal psychology, using the perspective of the Observing Consciousness Guide, from whom unexpected solutions may arise.