In these challenging times we all benefit from processes that help us answer the key questions of WHY, WHAT and HOW we handle conflicts to better support children and adults with special needs. This highly interactive session introduces conflict coaching — a one-on-one ADR process used in government, community, and private sector organizations throughout the globe for the last 20 years and recently added as an ADR tool in special education dispute resolution. Conflict coaching helps a parent, educator, or other consider the nature of the conflict and why issues in the conflict matter so much - why they drive the conflict. Conflict coaching also empowers someone to see a different future — to create and express a vision of what they want to be living through if the conflict is managed as they hope. And conflict coaching provides the very valuable opportunity to build skills to enact the outcomes desired. Recently, conflict coaching has been introduced in special education dispute resolution and CADRE is helping support those efforts. Participants will be introduced to the conflict coaching process and how conflict coaching can support other processes. Focusing on the power of narrative, special attention will be given to how conflict coaching helps one see a better way forward, build an action plan and engage in skills enhancement to get there.
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