Handling conflicts, misunderstandings, and relationship difficulties is often challenging, stressful, and painful. Relationship repair can be even more frustrating and messy in relationships where power differences come into play, as may be the case between person in therapy and therapist, teacher and student, or boss and employee. Is there anyone who doesn't have at least one story about a boss or an employee who was impossible or hurtful?
In this conference, we will focus on a number of issues related to resolving conflict, including identifying functional and dysfunctional strategies, looking at the relationship between conflict and trauma, understanding how conflict escalates and how to intervene, learning how to track for signs of conflict early on, and using a five-step process for resolving and repairing from both the "down-power" role and the "up-power" role. Resolving conflict and repairing relationships is a high art and skill well worth learning.
Please be prepared to include some self-study practices that you will be invited to share with others in the class. As an experiential educator, I have a strong conviction that for the study of this topic (and others), personal self-study experience and practical processes produce the most usable learnings.
This web conference is intermediate instructional level and designed to help clinicians:
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In short, participants will be able to listen to the event by calling in to our teleconference center. Prior to the event, all participants will be sent an email with instructions on how to login to the teleconference center. This event will include lecture and question-and-answer periods.
Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.
GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.
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The five-step method was so clear and concise and user-friendly. - Robyn D'Angelo, LMFT
Cedar Barstow, MEd, CHT, is the Founder and Executive Director of the Right Use of Power Institute whose mission is to help people own and use their personal and professional power with strength, heart, and skill. Right Use of Power is an ethics program that Cedar originally developed for people in the helping professions. She and her husband, Reynold Ruslan Feldman, have just published a new book that brings right use of power ideas to all people interested in power: Living in the Power Zone: How Right Uses of Power Can Transform Your Relationships. Cedar also authored Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics—A Resource for the Helping Professional. Her books and a calendar for her programs are available from her website.
Cedar is the Ethics Topic Expert for GoodTherapy.org and has published many articles on GoodTherapy.org's blog. She serves as a consultant in ethics, as a teacher of right use of power programs throughout the world, and as a Hakomi Psychotherapy trainer. Cedar lives in Boulder, Colorado.