Resolving Conflict and Repairing Relationships

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:

1. Prepare to use the five-step method for resolving and repairing relationship difficulties;
2. List three conflict-avoiding habits and three conflict-managing habits;
3. Recognize the relationship between conflict and trauma and the three nervous systems;
4. Identify six signals or indicators of relationship difficulties;
5. Describe the concept of down-power leadership.

If you have any questions about this web conference or would like more information, please contact us here.

Event Reviews from Members

The five-step method was so clear and concise and user-friendly. - Robyn D'Angelo, LMFT

Continuing Education (CE) Information

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.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395. 

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

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Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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Highlights

[M]y definition of power is the ability to have an effect or to have influence. Of course, that’s what we all need and want—the ability to have an effect and to have an influence . . . . Power is often experienced as something scary or to be avoided or to be overused, but the ‘right use of power’ is any use of power that’s used for the common good and for healing and for moving relationships forward. - Cedar Barstow, MEd, CHT

[There are] five things that most people need in order to feel resolved about problems, or clear enough to let go of a relationship consciously rather than in anger. And this isn’t a prescription, but it’s a set of attitudes and suggestions. And clients may need one, or they may need all, or three, or two of them, and so you don’t need to make any conflict bigger than it is. [T]he first is acknowledgment . . . . [T]he second thing they want is understanding . . . . And then the third is regret . . . . [T]he fourth is learning. . . . And the fifth thing they want is repair. - Cedar Barstow, MEd, CHT