Working Effectively with Especially Challenging Behaviors in Member-Led Activist Groups. Webinar recording available
Working Effectively with Especially Challenging Behaviors in Member-Led Activist Groups is the fourth webinar part of the Conflict Resilience Series, a series highlighting some fantastic resources on the benefits of addressing and re-framing conflict to maintain effective groups.
Did you ever felt confused, baffled, or even hopeless about ongoing conflict in your group? There are things groups can do!
Diana shared an overview of grounded, field-tested, practical, workable solutions that successful groups have used to resolve or contain each type of conflict, focusing mostly on managing especially challenging behaviors. Don't miss the recording!
Most conflict tension and in member-led activist groups looks on the surface like simple interpersonal conflict. But I identify three different sources of conflict:
- Simple interpersonal conflict, for which there are tried and true remedies involving good communication skills and mediation methods.
- Twelve kinds of “Structural conflict" (I first identified six kinds of structural conflict in my book Creating a Life Together).
- The conflict arising from what I see as “especially challenging behaviors" and described in my eight-part article series for Communities magazine, "Working Effectively with Especially Challenging Behaviors".
I approach conflict in member-led groups and offers suggestions that are quite different from the approach and suggestions of most communication consultants and mediators.
Access the slide decks and other articles and resources mentioned during the webinar:
Our guest: Diana Leafe Christian
Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (now in French, Italian Spanish, Russian, Korean, Hebrew, and German), and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community (New Society Publishers, 2003, 2005).
She speaks at ecovillage and cohousing conferences, offers consultations, and leads workshops and online trainings internationally. With the ability to make things simple and clear, and drawing on a deep and broad understanding of intentional community dynamics, Diana encourages effective and harmonious ways for groups to become healthy and thriving, and to resolve the typical interpersonal challenges that can arise in any community.
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Ena Sutherland (Edinburgh) is one of the artists we contacted to come up with a picture about setting up healthy boundaries.
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