Dear reader, Last week, I came across an interview of Amanda Ripley on the On Being podcast. Amanda Ripley is a journalist and author who trained in conflict mediation and then began training journalists to cover polarizing conflict. In the On Being podcast, Ripley spoke of ‘High Conflict’—a term she uses to describe polarized conflict that seems to go round in circles, and has a stuckness to it. What she shares of her learnings on handling polarized conflict more constructively has several parallels to Nonviolent Communication as a conflict transformation approach.
This is a wonderfully simple explanation that changed my perspective about conflict, and now I get what ‘lean into the conflict’ really means.
Grateful for the share!!!✨