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Power Dynamics in Teams: how to build awareness

Philippa Brown October 13, 2023

Power Dynamics in Teams: how to build awareness

Power is a presence in every mediation, every team, every group. Merriam-Webster defines power as “a possession of control, authority, or influence over others.” Typically, in mediation training courses, we will discuss how we can manage a safe space for all parties to contribute, even when there are power imbalances in the room. What usually […]

Expanding Your Conflict Style to Manage Conflict Better (& Reduce Stress)

How do you react when you feel yourself to be in a conflict? Do you find your competitive nature is triggered? Or do you want to avoid

February 1, 2021

3 Conflict Insights: from war-zones to mediation

Working in Helmand or Mogadishu looks very different to working in London or Hove, where I’m now based. But conflicts often have much in common.

January 19, 2021

10 Top Tips From a Multi-party Zoom Mediation

A recent online Zoom mediation with three parties and 12 participants gave us a chance to reconsider some best practice when dealing with multi-party, multi-participant

October 28, 2020

Conflict, conflict, conflict: using my war-zone experience in UK mediation

September 12, 2020

Six Counter-Intuitive Conflict Lessons from Somalia

Conflicts in Somalia continue to cost lives, draw in funding and demand attention from the international community. Somalia has evolved from ‘stateless’ and ‘failed state’

December 16, 2019