Cohousing-L Mailing List: "Working Effectively with Three Kinds of Community Conflict" starts Sept. 1

[Diana Leafe Christian Webinars (dianaleafechristianwebinars]

Two weeks left to register for my five-week course, "Working
Effectively with Three Kinds of Community Conflict," starting Sunday,
September 1, ending Sunday, Sept. 29, 10-12:30 pm Pacific, 1:3:30 pm
Eastern. Cost is $250-$185 Sliding Scale, with discount for five or
more from the same community registering at the same time.

Even though the topic of conflict is troubling, participants in our
packed class last February said they found it lively and enjoyable.

"Such a great class, jam-packed with really useful information!"
—Sheridan Hill, Black Mountain, NC

"I loved the class—great insights. It will really help bring more
clarity in resolving community conflicts." —Nicolo Scifo, Costa Rica

Here's the link for more information and to register:
https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/working-effectively-with-community-conflict/

If you've ever felt confused, baffled, or even hopeless about conflict
in your community and you've yearned for solutions that worked well in
other communities, this course offers grounded, field-tested remedies.
There ARE ways you as an individual, groups of friends in cohousing,
and your whole community can deal effectively with each kind of
conflict.  In my experience, each requires a different approach.

(1) Interpersonal Conflict can respond well to good communication
skills like Nonviolent Communication, as well as in-house mediations
and help from  outside community consultants.

(2) "Structural Conflict" can arise when a community doesn't have
certain crucial features aspects every group needs to function
smoothly (such as a fair, participatory self-governance method; clear
agreements about committees; or effective ways to help people abide by
community agreements). This lack usually also triggers interpersonal
conflict as well.

(3) The third kind, "Especially Challenging Behaviors," I described in
my article series in Communities magazine  consistent disruptive
behaviors that don't respond to the usual methods of empathy and NVC,
requests for changed behavior, or mediations, and which also trigger
interpersonal conflict.

My approach is quite different from most community consultants, who
tend to treat all conflict as if it were interpersonal conflict. But
this doesn't help with the other two kinds!

In the upcoming Sept 1 course I share what communities have done to
successfully address each of these kinds of conflict—things your
community can do as well. With slide show presentation, practice
exercises, handouts and other resources, and time for participants to
describe conflicts in their community, with suggestions to address
these conflicts effectively. If you're experiencing distressing
conflict in your community — or would like effective tools to use if
it occurs in the future — please join us in this energizing
interactive course.

Here's the link for more information and to register:
https://www.schoolofintegratedliving.org/working-effectively-with-community-conflict/

Diana Leafe Christian

Sociocracy for Communities, Part Two, a five week course starting
Sunday, October 6, covers three Sociocracy meeting processes and its
Circle Structure. There's no requirement to have taken Part One first
as the two courses are taught independently, and participants will get
a brief overview of Part One. And the next Sociocracy, Part One course
is offered again January 6.