Episode 10: On Transforming Conflict through Story
In this episode, we explore interruption in the context of conflict transformation with Lorraine Segal, founder of Conflict Remedy (https://conflictremedy.com). Disagreement is a natural part of human relationship, but as we discuss, you don’t have to stay stuck in conflict! We explore interpersonal conflict, what we bring to our workplaces and what our workplaces bring to us, and we tell stories, share mishaps, and dream about what can be if each of us could learn and implement conflict transformation in our own lives.
Links
You can learn more about Lorraine on her LinkedIn page and her ConflictRemedy website. Lorraine has written a number of blog posts, all available on her website. Here are some of the most relevant for our conversation on interruptions:
In addition to the blog posts, Lorraine has written a memoir, Angels and Earthworms you may want to check out.
During the podcast, we mention a few works, including Robin DeAngelo’s book (2018) White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Beacon Press, Boston. ISBN: 9780807071168. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/43708708, as well as the movie How It Ends (2021), from which we include a short snippet that so perfectly captures harmony in conversation. As a follow-on to the podcast, you may want to take a look at this article on culture change.
Credits
Thank you to Emma Levinson for her Interruptions artwork featured on our website, to Tribe of Noise BV for licensing the music Miró by MagnusMoone (bronze license certificate number 956ec9d5-c99f-48c5-b231-205e3a8a5546/27392), and to Alan Huckleberry for allowing us to use Bartok’s "Melody with Interruptions", from The University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Video Recording Project. The podcast image is a public domain CC0 image from RawPixel, Apollo Belvidere, study showing the forehead, eyes, and bridge of nose (1840) by James Fuller Queen. Original public domain image from the Library of Congress. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel, available at https://www.rawpixel.com/image/8627137/image-face-art-vintage.
