Thoughts on creative conversation and the daily challenge of transforming conflict.
Eddy Canfor-Dumas
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September 2020
Sticking negative labels on people we don't like is so much easier than engaging with the substance of our disagreements
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Peter Osborn
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A positive attitude to other people is something you can only develop in yourself. But the benefits are significant – and free!
October 2021
Treating employees with consideration and respect costs nothing and reaps major returns in performance and commitment. Yet so many employers seem to lack this basic human touch. The big question is...why?
August 2021
In tackling climate change what’s going to win out – conflict or collaboration?
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May 2021
Want to help stop democracy from starving itself to death? Have more open conversations with a broader range of people.
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April 2021
Here’s a radical suggestion. Don’t have it. I’m not suggesting you duck it. But I am suggesting you ask yourself a fundamental question.
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March 2021
It’s in the spaces between people – in their everyday working relationships – that value is created or destroyed.
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What can be done to counter the growth of the far-right, fed by the malignancy of deliberate misinformation?
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February 2021
... because – as former QAnon believer Ashley Vanderbilt discovered – it’s only a hop, skip and a jump from a little truth to a Big Lie.
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Whether it’s expressed in words, a look or a tone of voice, disapproval disconnects. But what's the alternative if we do actually disapprove?
Like millions of others I watched and laughed at the committee meeting from hell, with added Zoom delights. But what would we have done if The Creative Conversation Company had been asked to help smooth the troubled waters of the Handforth Parish Council?
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Who’s deciding what you think about right now?
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January 2021
You probably know what the 3Rs mean in education – reading, (w)riting and (a)rithmetic. But in the coming years I suspect we’re all going to hear a lot more about the 3Cs of disaster management.
I’m reading a pretty mind-blowing book at the moment – 'How Emotions Are Made' by Lisa Feldman Barrett. It has profound implications for how we understand the interplay of human emotions and human behaviour – and how we can better deal with conflict.
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It might sound odd to claim that we can consciously set out to create hope – for ourselves and other people. Surely hope is something mysterious that comes and goes almost of its own accord and we have no control over it? But hope can indeed be created - it just takes practice.
The ‘soft’ relationship skills of how we talk and listen to each other are actually hard to do well and consistently. But they’re needed more and more as the challenges facing us grow - in our personal lives, our working lives, in society and the world.
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You don’t have to be a Michelangelo or a Mozart to be creative. You just have to focus on meeting basic human needs.
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December 2020
Or is problem-solving more your style? And what if you want to add more of the latter...?
I had an aha-moment the other day, when a metaphorical jigsaw piece I’d been turning round and around for ages finally became recognisable and I was able to snap it in place into the puzzle.
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Some very different kinds of talking were happening in Europe today - some creative and some not...
What on earth does TV scriptwriting have to do with conflict transformation?
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November 2020
Whether it's in international negotiations or with your nearest and dearest, building trust is essential - and it all boils down to four key elements.
Ben Freedman
Most people say they try to avoid conflict if at all possible. But is it actually confrontation that they're anxious to avoid?
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