• Identify your personal conflict triggers, reactions, and defensive patterns.
  • Shift into useful discernment, communication, and action.
  • Make skillful choices handling stress, fear, frustration, anger, and pain.
  • Reshape your personal, professional, and civic life through under-standing and navigating key dynamics of character styles and behaviors.
  • Acquire indispensable skills for relationship, team-building, and organizational leadership.
  • Renew your spirit, and enjoy greater ease, grace, pleasure, and purpose.
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Enlivening New Awareness,

Radio interview:
Senior Faculty member
John Shordike, J.D. discusses the practice and power of Conscious Conflict.

Experience how the science and tools of . . .

Embodied Mindfulness

Interpersonal Neurobiology

Social Engagement & Brain Plasticity

Transform conflict from the inside out:

The Conscious Conflict Seminars® offer a unique curriculum, opportunity, and community for a profound relational experience that effectively re-orients and re-wires our neurochemistry.

Come as you are, and you will find the rich social context, safety, guidance, and spaciousness that you need to start shifting your reality. Experience your body, mind, and spirit in new and empowered ways. Transform your conflicts from the inside out.

. . . empower you to:

  • Relationships
  • Work
  • Community
  • Spirit

Tools & Skills for Your:

Redraw Your Map of Conflict . . . ( more. . . )

Do you ever find yourself reacting unproductively to the stresses, demands & disappointments of family, work & community life?

. . . Working too hard to evade, deflect, fix, control, or clean up after difficult people or situations?

. . . Reflexively striving to "prove" yourself, "win", or come out "on top", no matter the cost to you or your loved ones?

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Regretting your behaviors and choices, and their consequences at home, at work, and in the community?

Reorient Your Compass and Chart a New Course . . . ( more. . . )

Most of us never got the map, the compass, or the directions to fruitfully navigate the Conflict Ecosystem. Instead we may:
  • Stress, obsess, or hide.
  • Complain, blame, or sabotage.
  • Manipulate, control, or fight.
Our habitual strategies to avoid, manage, negotiate, resolve, or win our conflicts may not be answering a deeper need or calling.
We are not yet leveraging our inevitable conflicts with others to make a deeper peace with ourself.

Kindle the Creative Spark of Your Life . . . ( more. . . )

Our conflicts are opportunities to become the change we desire. They are our mirrors, guides, and allies.

Conscious Conflict offers the tools, skills, and practices to safely kindle the creative spark of conflict to renew and revitalize ourself,
and our relationships, workplace, and community.