Conflict Coaching: Transforming Tension into Opportunity

A highly effective intervention suitable for workplace or personal conflicts. Join us for an introduction to St Ethelburga’s conflict transformation model.

Are you currently experiencing conflict in your work or personal life? Are you supporting others who are experiencing conflict?

Join us for an immersive introduction to St Ethelburga’s Conflict Coaching Model - a practical, compassionate approach for meeting conflict as an opportunity for learning and growth. When polarisation and strain are so often part of our daily lives, this training invites you to reframe conflict as a site of potential and offers participants a chance to deepen communication, restore relationships, and cultivate peace in the midst of complexity.

What You Can Expect

This interactive full-day session combines practical coaching exercises, small-group dialogue, and embodied learning. You’ll have opportunities to work in pairs, practise structured coaching conversations, and explore your own experiences of conflict in a supportive, confidential environment.

Through movement, reflection, and facilitated discussion, we will explore the many dimensions of conflict - within the self, between people, across communities, and in our relationship with Earth. You’ll be guided through St Ethelburga’s step-by-step coaching model and leave equipped with a framework you can apply immediately in your professional or personal context.

The day also includes time to connect with the sacred space of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace, whose history of destruction and renewal embodies the possibility of transformation. A short tour of the garden and nave will offer a living example of how crises can become turning points.

You Will Learn To

• Coach an individual or group through conflict using our structured 7 step Coaching model.
  
• Recognise your own conflict style and use that self-awareness to stay grounded and responsive.
  
• Listen beyond “right and wrong” to uncover the underlying drivers of conflict.
  
• Support others to clarify their goals, take responsibility, and find constructive next steps.
  
• Distinguish between resolution (ending conflict) and transformation (learning and change through conflict).

Themes We’ll Explore Together

• The nature of conflict: how it arises, why it escalates, and how it can become a force for growth.
  
• Non-dual listening: holding space without judgement or agenda, where new insight can emerge.
  
• Embodiment: understanding the nervous system’s role in tension and using somatic tools to regulate and stay present.

Why Attend

Conflict often feels like something to avoid or manage — yet when approached with courage and humility, it can become a site of transformation. Learning how to coach others through conflict not only supports relationships and teams, but also strengthens your own capacity to remain steady, curious, and kind under pressure.

You’ll leave this workshop with:

• A practical, repeatable coaching framework for guiding individuals through conflict.
  
• Greater confidence in working with strong emotions and difficult conversations.
  
• A deeper understanding of your own conflict patterns and how to shift them.
  
• Renewed hope that disagreement can lead to connection rather than division.
• A 100 page Conflict Coaching Manual with detailed frameworks to coach others through conflict. 

This is for:

• Coaches, facilitators, and mediators who accompany others through challenge or change.
  
• Community organisers and faith leaders seeking to support dialogue and understanding.
  
• HR and people-focused professionals looking to handle tension constructively within teams.
  
• Anyone curious about their own responses to conflict and ready to develop new habits of awareness.

Our Approach

Our work at St Ethelburga’s sits at the intersection of climate and peace, rooted in the belief that there can be no peace on Earth unless we also make peace with Earth. We build resilience for times of ecological and social upheaval by equipping people with the tools and presence to navigate complexity together. Participants will explore how to hold space for others without seeking to “fix,” to listen for what is alive beneath the story, and to accompany others toward clarity and agency. Throughout the day, we’ll move fluidly between reflection, conversation, and practice.

The 7 step process of conflict coaching was very good, the facilitation was very open and encouraging. The group dynamic created was really welcoming and soothing, I felt comfortable from the beginning.

It treated something often very difficult with a lightness and gentleness. I enjoyed meeting the others even for such a short time. It was really helpful to be with a wide range of people, all wanting similar goals and to work closely together. The space is wonderful to be in!

The facilitation was really good - I appreciated the way each section was clearly introduced and the use of comfort breaks. The content was very useful and thought provoking and the work in pairs was well paced and allowed for each part of the learning to be more easily digested. It is probably one of the best workshops I have ever attended. And I have attended many! I came away with takeaways that are relevant and continue to be thought-provoking.

Concession Tickets

If you require a further discounted ticket rate, please email rebecca.brierley@stethelburgas.org.