BGO-40: Meeting Conflict – Learning to read and transform conflict patterns

Understanding conflict escalation and de-escalation

Read a conflict before you react.
Explore the potential for self-development in the challenging encounters with others. Explore individual patterns and personal styles of action and reaction in conflict situations. Understand constructive and destructive forces influencing conflict situations.
Understand escalation of conflicts.
Pre-requisite is Destiny Learning core module, as the 7-step learning and transformation process is reintroduced, deepened and applied.

Topics include

  • Explore the potential for self-development in challenging encounters with others.
  • Explore individual patterns and personal styles of action and reaction in conflict situations.
  • Understand constructive and destructive forces influencing conflict situations.
  • Understand the escalation of conflict.

Online group-work explores

  • The 4-day Karma exercise, practised alongside the 7-step process.
  • Preparing two conflict incidents, with outer map and inner mood drawings.
  • Step 1 — perceiving phenomena: the five key elements of a conflict incident.
  • Step 2 — finding connections with other incidents, fine-tuning the conflict pattern or gesture.
  • Step 3 — change of perspective: imagining scenarios where the pattern might once have been appropriate, with a drawing of the influencing forces.
  • Step 4 — naming an influential being or Double: the Rumpelstiltskin step.
  • Steps 5 to 7 and Gifting — a learning task, early warning signs, first steps towards change, and a word gift for each group member.
BGO-40 CON Meeting Conflict - Holistic Biography Work - Front Page

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  • Study Guide: 116 pages
  • Recorded Lectures: 7
  • Suggested Reading, Journalling, Creative Activities
  • Independent Study: 60 hours, self-paced
  • Fee: 90 AUD – counts towards the full course
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Add Facilitated Group-work

  • 20 hours real-time online, in small groups of 3 to 5
  • Offered once every year – see Course Dates
  • Fee: 380 AUD – full course 470 AUD
  • Enrol 4 to 6 weeks ahead – Enrolment Form (download)
  • Prerequisites: BGO-23 and BGO-30 group-work