Conflict Management for Women: Skills, Strategies, and Solutions

The Utah Women & Leadership Project invites you to join us for our Spring Workshop.

Is what you are doing in conflict working for you? Are you getting what you hope for? Are you able to cultivate connection, cooperation, trust, or peace? Clair and Carlee have spent the last five years gathering research, testing ideas, and training learners on what really works for managing conflict. From this work they have developed a framework that creates a new mindset and language for approaching conflict. This new mindset can transform how relationships, businesses, and communities prosper and thrive when there is resistance, discord, or clashing values. This framework has shifted how thousands of individuals view and engage in conflict. Join us for a workshop designed for women to learn specific skill sets, strategies, and processes that help find flow and peace in conflict.

Sponsors: Jon M. Huntsman School of Business and Extension at Utah State University & Utah Education Network (UEN)

Presenters:

Clair Canfield is a Senior Lecturer at Utah State University and has over 20 years of experience teaching, training, and consulting in the field of communication and conflict. He is a certified mediator and is deeply committed to helping people transform the way they approach conflict. His 2016 TEDx talk which has been viewed over 300k times, describes how conflict has the potential to be beautiful. When he isn’t talking about his passion for conflict you might find Clair riding his motorcycle through the canyons of Northern Utah near his home in Perry, or enjoying time with his spouse and three children.

Carlee Madsen is no stranger to conflict. She spent many years of her life as a chronic conflict avoider and accommodate-r in many of her personal and professional relationships. She has devoted thousands of hours embracing the idea that there is beauty in conflict and doing so has transformed her life and relationships. Carlee has a master’s degree in Professional Communication and other degrees and certificates in mediation, psychology, leadership, and conflict management. She is currently teaching conflict classes for the Communication Studies Department at Utah State University.