Resolve Disputes and Conflicts

Not everyone is born with the natural skills to settle disputes between yourself, your peers, your coworkers, and even your family. As a matter of fact, most people need to learn the skills involved when it comes to solving conflicts in their personal lives. That’s where Marble Mediation can help.

Among the many mediation services we provide, we also provide trainings for interpersonal differences of opinion. Squabbles don’t have to be the norm. We teach you ways to not only remedy negative confrontations, but how to turn them around completely and most of all, constructively.

Our system of training focuses on the root of the problem: communication. In most circumstances, that includes expanding on the ability to listen. Learning how to communicate should always be inclusive of both what is and what is not said. This is true in both workplace and home-based settings.

Learning how to handle dispute resolution in the home or in the workplace is never a replacement for therapy and shouldn’t be treated as such. Even though it is an invaluable skill to learn, there are some issues that really need to be addressed by a licensed professional. Furthermore, we teach how to hold your tongue since words have a tendency to be hurtful.

The primary goal with these trainings is to teach you more about being hard on the problem and not the people associated with the problem. To err is human, after all, and holding the expectation that the person you are failing to communicate effectively with is perfect dismisses their humanity altogether. If you can change the nature of the fight, you can change the dynamic.

Not everyone ever really wants to admit they have an issue, especially when it comes to admitting faults of our own. Being able to admit your own side of an issue is a first major step. If you aren’t able to keep the problem separated from your relationship, your probability of that conflict seeping into other aspects of your life climbs significantly.

Two people with a stake in either side of a conflict can often resort to doing all sorts of irrational things, shift blame, project, or even completely deny their own role in the matter. Frankly, all of this drama usually has nothing at all to do with solving the problem, but there are a number of things you can do to focus on the problem, not the person.