The Texas Conflict Coach

What’s Unique about Gay Male Relationships?

Sarah — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:12:51 +0000

Listen LIVE on February 28th at 7:00pm CST at Blog Talk Radio. Call in to speak live with our guest at:(347) 324-3591 In this show, we’ll be talking with gay couples therapist and author Rik Isensee about the various challenges and opportunities gay men face in their relationships: how to resolve conflicts, and also how to [...]

Gender Transition in the Workplace

Sarah — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:22:08 +0000

It is increasingly common for transgender workers to undergo gender transition while keeping their jobs. Not everyone in the workplace adapts easily to this change, however. The Center for Gender Sanity was founded 15 years ago to help organizations manage gender transitions. We have assisted small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, state and local governments, police [...]

Mediating with True Believers

Sarah — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:47:31 +0000

“This is a previously recorded show. This show highlights the conflict in a church community where the religious beliefs of the elder population of the church and the growing LGBT population of the church began to divide the church into two factions. Community mediators worked closely with this community to open the dialogues for a [...]

Mediators Beyond Borders

Sarah — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:22:19 +0000

Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBB) is a not-for-profit corporation which brings together mediators and allied professionals to volunteer worldwide to collaborate on building conflict resolution capacity in underserved areas to make local peace-building more effective and sustainable. MBB also advocates to advance the use of mediation to resolve public policy disputes and other conflicts. In building [...]

Race and Conflict in American Society: A Conversation

Sarah — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:12:34 +0000

Join in as Lou Gieszl and Cheryl Jamison examine conflict dynamics when race is an issue. Racism is less overt and yet more complex than at any other time in our history. Because racism tends to be implicit, it often gets overlooked or mislabeled. How can we recognize when race is an issue? Are there landmines that can [...]

Stories For Hope: The Next Generation In Post-Conflict Rwanda Seeks To Break The Silence

Sarah — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:23:01 +0000

For over two years, my non-profit has trained counselors in Rwanda in narrative psychology, for the sake of Rwanda’s newest generation. So far we have collected and publicly archived 100 intergenerational dialogues between young adults and their elders, and our evaluations suggest this has been very positive for both generations, as a spur toward reconciliation, [...]

A Manager’s Dilemma: How do YOU figure out what’s wrong in the office?

Sarah — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:16:35 +0000

Front-line managers to CEOs are all asked to put out fires and fix problems. Stephen Kotev, my guest co-host and I will discuss a simple way to determine what is going wrong in the workplace. We will focus on what managers can do to unravel their problems and understand new ways of breaking down issues [...]

Intern joins The Texas Conflict Coach Blog Talk Radio Show

Pattie — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:41:42 +0000

Please join me in welcoming Andrea Williams, graduate student from the University of Baltimore in the Negotiations and Conflict Management graduate program. I am so excited to have her join my team this semester. Read more about Andrea… My entire life has been devoted to helping people and how to make a world a better [...]

Name Calling – When Will It STOP?

Sarah — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:44:40 +0000

Robert Fulghum, an American author, is quoted as saying “Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts” not to mention our spirits. Name calling, mudslinging, defaming and insulting words are all about impulsively responding to someone or something that is a threat to the beliefs, values or attitudes we [...]

Got Conflict? Unraveling the Problem

Sarah — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:30:14 +0000

“Got Conflict?” We all have conflict in our lives…some more complex than others. Sometimes, we are so entrenched in our problem that we lose sight and it feels too complicated to figure out or we solve the wrong problem. Stephen Kotev, my guest co-host and I will discuss a simple way to begin to unravel [...]