I'm happy to say I've recently been certified to administer a powerful tool for understanding your responses to conflict, and how to become more conflict-competent. The Conflict Dynamics Profile can be used as an individual assessment, or it can be used as a 360 assessment, using responses from bosses, peers / colleagues, and people who report directly to you. My 11-yr-old daughter assessed me, as one of my direct reports! :)
Although it is more often used in a workplace environment, I think it has useful applications for parents. For one thing, learning to be conflict competent is our mission at Three Trusts. Executive leadership training can be very useful for parents, who are the executive leaders of their home and children! All the traits that good leaders possess work especially well in the home: respect, ability to listen well, constructive problem-solving, etc.
We all know how inescapable conflict is. And we all know there are two distinctly different forms of conflict. The best is constructive ("cognitive") conflict, where the ideas and concepts are focused on. And we all know the worst conflict becomes personal ("affective conflict"), highly emotional and damaging. The work of Three Trusts is to decrease (eliminate!) the destructive affective conflict, while encouraging and increasing skills in the constructive cognitive conflict.
I've been enjoying speaking to groups in the greater Denver area about conflict resolution. I'd love to speak to your group as well. Give me a call!
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