When Conflict Gets Complicated: Three Kinds of Community Conflict
December 17 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM CST
When Conflict Gets Complicated: Three Kinds of Community Conflict
Wednesday, December 17, 2025
- Pacific: 10:00am-12:00pm
- Mountain: 11:00am-1:00pm
- Central: 12:00pm-2:00pm
- Eastern: 1:00pm- 3:00pm
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Learn about three kinds of community conflict and their different approaches through field-tested solutions with author and researcher, Diana Leafe Christian in this two-hour webinar.
Conflict in community often looks like a personal issue between people, so it’s usually treated as a simple interpersonal problem. However, conflict can stem from more complex community dynamics and these problems often call for different strategies to address them.
Through her extensive work with intentional communities, author and researcher Diana Leafe Christian identifies three kinds of community conflict as: Interpersonal, Structural, and “Especially Challenging Behaviors.”
You’ll learn how to identify and approach each kind of conflict, as well as a couple workable solutions that successful communities have used to resolve or manage them.
This webinar is for people who have felt confused, baffled, or even hopeless about ongoing conflict in their community. Diana offers accessible, grounded, and field-tested solutions that you can use too!
Join Diana through an interactive presentation including breakout groups and Q&A where participants can discuss the kinds of conflict they’ve seen in their own communities, while practicing some of the new techniques you’ll learn.
In this session, you’ll learn:
- How to identify the three kinds of community conflict Diana has observed in her community and in her work as a community consultant
- Specific examples of the techniques successful communities have used to address each kind of conflict
- How you can start applying one or two of these field-tested approaches to various kinds of conflict in your own community
For a deeper dive into three kinds of community conflict, join Diana in her 7-week course, Working Effectively with Three Kinds of Community Conflict — What You Can Do, starting January 17, 2026!
About Your Presenter
Diana Leafe Christian
Diana Leafe Christian is author of Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities,
and Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community. She speaks at ecovillage and cohousing conferences, offers consultations, and leads international workshops and online trainings on Sociocracy, conflict, and starting successful intentional communities.
Diana was a keynote speaker for the annual conferences of the Swedish Ecovillage Network and
the UK Cohousing Network in 2013, the Japanese Ecovillage Conference in 2007, and a presenter at the Global Ecovillage Network’s (GEN’s) 20th Anniversary Conference at Findhorn Community in 2015. She has presented at conferences in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and South America.
In 2017 Diana received the Fellowship for Intentional community’s Kozeny Communitarian Award,
a lifetime achievement award for contributions to the communities movement in North America.
She lives at Earthaven Ecovillage in North Carolina in the US.
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