Report your insights about the experience on Initiating Conflict Resolution: How to Plan an Effective Opening Statement.
All healthy relationships will encounter situations that lead to conflict. Knowing how to manage conflict can be the difference between growing through a conflict, and becoming fearful within the relationship.
1. Before practicing conflict resolution, view the slide show (at the link that follows) on Initiating Conflict Resolution: How to Plan an Effective Opening Statement.
2. Pages 342-343 and 351-353 lay out a plan for arriving at “Win Win Solutions.” Work this process with a communication partner, including what you learned from the slide show presentation. Report your insights as you submit a 500-700 word journal about the experience. (This exercise is what interpersonal communication is all about. When people are important to you, you will have conflicts. You can deal with these conflicts in ways that are building or destroying to the relationship. Miscommunication is at the core of many conflicts. Even the conflicts that cannot be resolved into a win-win are enriched when enough trust is expressed to acknowledge and attempt to resolve a conflict.)