The Capacity for Conflict

Conflict isn’t the problem. The way we were taught to handle it is. A 90-minute experiential workshop for people who care about justice, impact, and relationships — and want to navigate conflict without losing themselves.

$79 Live online • 90 minutes Bring a real conflict Interactive + experiential
Register — $79

The reality

You care deeply about your work and the people in it.

You want your values — equity, care, integrity — to shape how you move through the world.

And yet when conflict starts brewing, something shifts.

  • Smooth it over so no one feels hurt
  • Overthink every word before you speak
  • Rush to fix it so it doesn’t escalate
  • Replay the conversation long after it’s over
  • Or avoid it until you can’t anymore

Conflict feels risky. High stakes. Expensive — not just professionally, but emotionally. And if you care about justice and relationships, the stakes feel even higher.

Protection isn’t the same as alignment.
The Conflict Shift: Personhood, Power, Problem

What most of us were taught

We were taught to:

  • Get it right.
  • Stay in control.
  • Fix it fast.
  • Protect our position.
  • Avoid rupture.

So when tension rises, our nervous system goes into protection mode. But protection isn’t the same as alignment. And the way we were taught to handle conflict often recreates the very dynamics we’re trying to dismantle.

What this workshop offers instead

Imagine being able to:

  • Feel tension rising and stay grounded in yourself
  • Speak honestly without collapsing into self-doubt or defensiveness
  • Engage disagreement without turning it into a silent power struggle
  • Keep the main thing the main thing — instead of getting lost in politics, optics, or urgency
  • Walk away from a hard conversation with more clarity than regret

This workshop is about building that capacity — not by giving you scripts, not by teaching you to dominate, and not by pretending conflict can be neat. We’ll help you relate to it differently.

What you’ll experience

This is a live, 90-minute, highly interactive session. You’ll:

  • Bring a real conflict from your work or life
  • Explore what’s actually happening beneath the surface
  • Reflect in small breakout groups
  • Practice seeing the dynamic from multiple angles
  • Apply new principles directly to your situation

You won’t just leave with ideas. You’ll leave with a different way of approaching the conflict you brought in.

This is for you if…

  • You care about social impact and relational integrity
  • You want your conflict style to match your values
  • You’re tired of losing energy to avoidance, over-functioning, or urgency
  • You don’t want to replicate power-over dynamics — even unintentionally
  • You want hard conversations to feel less destabilizing and more constructive

You don’t need to be “good at conflict.” You just need to be willing to engage it in a new way.

Stay grounded, relational, and clear — even in tension.

Conflict doesn’t have to feel alien to who you are. There is a way to stay steady, share power, and move toward what matters — even when it’s uncomfortable.

Details: Live online • 90 minutes • Interactive + experiential • Bring a real conflict • $79

Bring the situation you’ve been avoiding, obsessing over, or trying to “handle correctly.” Leave with more clarity than regret — and a stronger ability to stay aligned while things are messy.

Register — $79