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

Understanding conflict escalation and de-escalation

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.

Meeting Conflict - Study Guide

Online group-work explores

  • Specific incidents related to challenging encounters.
  • Unravelling a Gesture (Pattern) by identifying 5 elements – Outer Trigger; Inner Reaction; Unfolding Response; Setting; the Mismatch or Disproportional element.
  • Using Feeling and Incident bridges to find similar incidents.
  • Working with possible scenarios to understand possible contexts for the Gesture.
  • Naming the qualities or forces which are at work in the situation.
  • Finding the learning task in these kinds of situations.
  • Identifying warning signs pre-conflict escalation.
  • Identifying possible steps for change.

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.