From Conflict To Cooperation: How to Identify and Resolve Power Struggles

This webinar will be helpful for working with strong-willed children (or parents!) who lock horns and act oppositional.  Using her visual props to explain psychological concepts, Alyson will help participants understand the dynamic that ignites and fuels a power struggle, as well as a 4-step method to move from conflict to co-operation.  Attendees will be given many opportunities to share situations they feel stumped by to get support and ideas from Alyson and the group. 

9:00 am - Begin

12:00 pm - End

• Learn the underlying dynamic between adult and child engaged in a power struggle
• Learn the 4-step method ( DROP the rope) for moving from conflict to co-operation that includes
  • Determine it’s a power struggle (active or passive)
  • Roles and responsibilities of each person involved
  • Olive branch – how to put down the proverbial boxing gloves and respond with caring to show we come in pursuit of peace and connection, not control and power. 
  • Plough on Positively – control yourself and the situation, not the child.