The whole problem of conflict between people is that we do not say what we mean and we
do not do what we say.
Martin Buber
WHAT
WE DO?
Conflict has a way of focusing the mind on what matters. But unfortunately, due to the heat of the battle, these insights are often left undiscovered. We help our clients find out and articulate what is most important to them in a conflict situation – often a window on important life matters – and how to constructively engage others over core these concerns.
WHY WE
DO IT?
We believe conflict can be an opportunity for discovery. We support people to creatively engage conflict as a doorway for learning and change.
The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don’t do what I say.
Martin Buber
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HOW WE
DO IT?
With over 30 years of experience, Dr. Rothman is highly trained and seasoned, anchoring The ARIA Group’s conflict coaching, mediation facilitation, and dispute systems design services.
Coaching individual leaders. Many times people who might resist a mediation process, will be more willing to explore a private coaching situation in which they are supported to engage in difficult conversations, conflicts and negotiations in more constructive ways than they have in the past.
Mediating between individuals and groups stuck in destructive conflict cycles. After working with each side separately, a decision may be made that the sides can be brought together to safely and effectively address their differences in constructive ways.
Facilitating groups. In addition to leading team building and visioning retreats, we also work with groups locked in internal conflicts or with other groups. Sometimes this work proceeds visioning efforts and sets the stage for it.
Dispute Systems Design (ACCESS). We help organizations to build conflict-positive organizations, where the creative potential of conflict can emerge and is purposefully used to strengthen organizational processes and relationships. ACCESS is implemented and adapted with active input from all leadership and staff, creating a “right-fit” organizational system people feel ownership over and that helps address issues before they get big.