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On Conflict and Consensus
Making collective decisions and navigating conflict are core activist skills. Here is a list of principles to build consensus.
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Principles of Co-operative Conflict Resolution
Navigating conflict is a core activist skill. Tips from peacebuilding have the potential to depolarise & de-escalate challenging situations.
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The Pt’chang Games List
Games are great for energising a group, lightening the mood, promoting playfulness, and building morale. Here is a list from Pt’chang.
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Activist Support and Debriefing
Activists need to individually and collectively deal with feelings such as loss, grief, frustration, anger and despair. Here are tips on how to support each other.
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Group Strategies to Prevent Stress and Burnout
A group’s culture can have a big impact on the likelihood of stress and burnout for members and staff. It’s possible to create a group culture that supports self-care, balance and sustainable work loads and patterns.
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Stress Management and Burnout Prevention
Physical, emotional & spiritual renewal is crucial to looking after ourselves for the long haul. Tips on how activists can manage high stress.
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De-escalate, Manage and Transform Conflict
Here are some suggestions, drawn from the literature of conflict resolution and psychotherapy, that can be used to de-escalate conflicts.
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Giving and Receiving Feedback
‘Feedback’ is a communication to a person or a group which gives that person information about how they affect others. It is important to be able to give feedback in such a way that people can hear it, take it in, evaluate it, and change behaviour which affects their relationship with others.
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Active Listening
Active listening is a fundamental skill for peacebuilding and social change. It is more than hearing, it involves processing what has been heard and skilfully selecting a response. Active listening serves to encourage the person to tell more and most importantly, communicates to the person that you are interested and listening.
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Nonviolence
An excerpt about nonviolence from the Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacekeeping Trainers’ Manual by Pt’chang.
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