Description
Do you have an intellectual understanding of how to communicate in conflict, but find it challenging to use those skills in the heat of the moment?
On a physical level, our bodies experience conflict as a threat. As a result, we instinctively protect ourselves by reacting through defensiveness, people-pleasing, or avoidance – often before we even recognize what’s happening. These defense mechanisms are what take conflict from a manageable problem to a difficult relationship rupture.
Choosing to respond instead of react requires an embodied understanding of the mind/body connection while in conflict. Studying nonviolent communication and other approaches to conflict is beneficial for learning how to communicate more effectively, but your ability to do so in the heat of conflict is actually rooted in your relationship to your nervous system.
In this class you’ll learn about:
- Practicing receiving feedback or disappointment
- Pausing to feel and reflect in the heat of a moment
- Working with grief and shame in our bodies
You’ll get a Zoom link after you register in your confirmation email. Please check your spam/junk folder for an email from orders@ic.org.
Interested in taking the full Transforming Conflict with the Mind/Body Connection course? Please click here to learn more and register.
