CoRe Speaker Series: Conflict Styles and Collaborative Games

NOTE: We were unable to livestream this Speaker event on March 14, 2017, but captured most of it on cell phone. We've edited together the segments that were captured. Our apologies again to the livestream audience and the speakers: Amanda Semenoff and Deborah White.

CONFLICT STYLES & COLLABORATIVE GAMES
Join Amanda Semenoff and Deborah White in an exploration of the potential of collaborative games to elicit and support dialogue on conflict styles and their impact in negotiations, mediations, and day-to-day communications. Amanda will introduce a quick-to-learn, quick-to-play collaborative game created by mediators and other conflict resolution professionals and guide a discussion of the ways in which collaborative games surface conflict style preferences amongst players. Using the five conflict handling modes of the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument as a vocabulary for analysis, participants will explore the ways in which approaches to problem solving and cooperation in games correlates to conflict handling modes in other circumstances. What can we learn from exploring our conflict styles in a non-conflictual setting? What applications are possible to our conflict management practices?