Strategies for Turning Conflict into Creativity

It is an understatement to say that we are living in times of great turmoil, polarization, and change. It is a time when unresolved conflicts permeate our lives, our workplaces, our politics, our community. Very few systems are immune from the tension conflict generates. We watch helpless, as countries use war as a strategy for settling disagreements. Our news sources are glutted with escalating reports of physical violence used as a method to mediate disputes. Our schools have become battle grounds as students grapple with ways to handle conflicting emotions and divergent points of view. Our airlines sometimes get diverted due to a passenger who does not have the skills to deal with their anger. And tragically sometimes our workplaces break out in violence.