Student-Athletes In Transition: Secrets to Success

With the start of a new academic year, college athletes and coaches prepare for another season and often a whole new environment. They encounter new team members, the pressures of performance and a longing for home. During this program, Joshua Gordon, of the Sports Conflict Institute  and Stephen Kotev will discuss what student athletes and coaches can do to optimize their performance on and off the field.

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Mastering Conflict on the Side of a Mountain with Mountaineer Andrew Lock

Andrew Lock, being the only Australian to summit all 14 of the world’s 8000 meter peaks has met with many challenges. Tragedy, exhaustions, sacrifices and his own near death experiences are all part of his “Mountaintop Adventure”. Teamwork and leadership take on a new meaning when faced with such physical and mental demands. Join us as Andrew shares his achievements, why he does what he does and how he handles the myriad of team conflicts while he leads expeditions up treacherous terrain.

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Negotiation 101: Building Blocks for Getting What You Need

We negotiate every single day over important and routine requests. Spouses negotiate over household and financial duties, co-workers negotiate time off, job tasks, promotions and salaries. When a perceived disagreement or dispute erupts, know how to negotiate effectively and constructively by learning the very basic building blocks. Join Stephen Kotev and Pattie Porter, as they outline and demonstrate how to listen beyond the demand, identify the common goals and negotiate to get what you need.

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Working Together and Not Just Side-by-Side: Cultivating Conflict Competence in Healthcare Organizations

There has been an increased emphasis on teamwork and collaboration in the delivery of health services over the past decade. Much of this has been due to research that indicates the need for good communication and coordination in order to provide safe and effective care to patients. But for most health professionals, daily conflict can interrupt teamwork and make communication difficult creating risk for patients and diminishing morale for healthcare workers.  In discussing this growing area of conflict resolution, Debra will talk about what conflict looks like in clinical work settings, why conflict is so hard to address among health professionals and what is happening to improve conflict management within healthcare organizations.

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Global Art Project for Peace: Joyously Creating a Culture of Peace through Art

Join us on November 25th at 8 pm Eastern as Katherine Josten, artist and founder of the Global Art Project for Peace discusses how local communities from across the globe actively join together to promote peace through art.  Hear how this work inspires personal and social evolution through creativity and learn how you can participate in this project with thousands of others to share your own artistic expression of friendship and peace to form a Global Community.

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Beyond the Click – How Social Media is Being Used to Build Peace

In this digitally connected age, social media has become a powerful tool to advance peace.  Join Dr. Craig Zelizer as we discuss how to move beyond the click and utilize these powerful tools to promote peace.  Listen in on October 7^th  and meet us at this intersection of technology and peace.

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The Riddle of Principle and Compromise – How We Can’t Have One Without the Other

When to compromise and when to hold fast to our principles is one of the most difficult challenges we face when dealing with conflict. Listen in on June 24 at 8 pm Eastern as mediator, professor and author Bernie Mayer considers how these two values simultaneously prevent us and enable us to deal with some of the most difficult conflicts in our life.

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Educating the Community for 5 Years and Counting!

Join Founding Host Pattie Porter and Hosts Zena Zumeta and Stephen Kotev as we celebrate and honor the many guests during our 200th Episode. This is our 5 year anniversary of The Texas Conflict Coach and we invite you to call in, ask questions, give us feedback and share your favorite moment. We will also reflect and highlight key moments during our time together.

Each of us have selected past programs that were particularly meaningful. We encourage you to listen to these.

I Shall Not Hate with Dr. Abuelaish

The Kevin Morrissey Story: When Work Equals Life

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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Co-Workers from Hell: Lessons from Conflict Coaching Experts

Whether you are at the water cooler, in the hallway or stuck in a never- ending meeting, we all have to deal with co-workers from hell. Join Pattie Porter and Stephen Kotev to learn lessons from conflict coaching experts on how to respond differently, effectively and constructively to the most challenging of coworkers. We will provide a couple of typical workplace scenarios and play out what typically happens, and then share lessons and strategies for how to do it differently.

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Trust 101 – How You Can Build Trust and Overcome Distrust

Trust is a key element of our personal and professional relationships. Without it progress grinds to a halt and disagreements become rampant amongst friends, coworkers, and leadership. No matter if you are the newest hire or the CEO; you need to understand what trust is and how it is build and that distrust is not just the absence of trust, but a separate, malignant problem!  This program will provide you with specifics on how to build trust and overcome distrust.

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