Conflict Coaching

At the Conflict Resolution Center, we offer conflict coaching to individuals experiencing difficulty and conflict in their lives. Conflict coaching is an opportunity for a person to work one-on-one with experienced staff to understand and make decisions affecting him or her. Conflict coaching is confidential and provides support as a client works through difficulty and conflict.

Conflict coaching is for anyone who have experienced any one of these things:

• Are experiencing internal or relationship conflict at work or in their personal lives
• Have not been able to resolve the conflict on their own
• Feel powerless to effect a change in their lives
• Tried mediation or other methods of formal or informal conflict resolution and were not
  successful or where mediation was not an option
• Have a desire to regain their “comfort zone” but not sure how to do it
• Want to repair or improve a valuable relationship
• Want to learn skills to manage stress and conflict in one-on-one sessions

How does conflict coaching work?

• We begin with a one-hour session where your goals for the coaching sessions are defined.
• You decide how many coaching sessions you would like and on what days and times, and work on your agenda each time.
• You also can stay in touch with your coach with unlimited e-mail or voice mail to share a success or work through an urgent challenge.
• The coaching sessions can be at our offices or at a site of your choice.

The conflict coach helps a person:

• Become clearer about his/her situation; identify what he/she would like to have happen
• Gain insight into how conflict impacts him/her and others
• Think about the conflict differently
• Identify choices and decisions he/she can control
• Practice new skills for communicating in and out of conflict
• Decide whether to have a conversation with the other person involved in the conflict and, if so, what he/she needs to say to the other person
• Identify additional resources that can help with the conflict and new skill development