NCW Libraries, in partnership with Oregon Humanities, is offering a virtual program on interpersonal conflict called Softening Sharp Teeth: Getting Curious about Conflict. The program will be held through the Zoom meeting platform on Thursday, October 16, from 6-7:30PM.
This community conversation is an opportunity to reflect on our relationships to interpersonal conflict, which most people try to avoid. What skills do we need to responsibly engage in conflict? What might we learn and how might we grow by making more room for conflict? How can shifting our relationship to conflict offer us new perspectives about ourselves and the groups we belong to?
Facilitator Emily Squires will lead a judgement-free, jargon-free discussion about what we mean when we say conflict, how interpersonal conflict shapes our lives, and offer tools to use when experiencing it.
Squires is an artist, facilitator, and consultant who has spent more than two decades working with various organizations. She works with groups across sectors, from small nonprofit organizations to government bureaucracies, to think and feel through the complexities of identity, conflict, and long-term culture transformation.
This program is part of a fall series of virtual programs offered by NCW Libraries that centers on the core values of listening, learning, and building community. Learn more at https://www.ncwlibraries.org/fall-program-series-for-adults.
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