Online Resources
Please have a look at our most used online conflict resolution resources. These resources are intended to help you understand your approach to conflict, resolve conflict successfully and evolve your approach into what you want it to be.
With insights from our own lead conflict management consultant Raj Dhasi, Anatomy of a Friendship Meltdown looks at the role of social media in relationship breakdown. Flare Magaize writer Lisa Wong compiles and offers tips on how to modify the use of social media to strengthen relationships and navigate conflict.
http://www.decision1.net/id12.html
This article gives an easy to understand explanation of why conflict exists in our homes and in our workplaces. It highlights the need to work towards managing conflict in every realm of our lives.
http://braindevelopmentandlearning.com/Resources2010/
This website provides a wealth of scientifically sound resources that are intended to support leaders, educators, parents, and mental health professionals in applying brain science to understand the human experience, including why we are the way we are in conflict situations.
www.mystressmanagementskills.com
If you are curious about your stress management IQ take this unabridged version of the Epstein Stress Management Inventory for Individuals (or ESMI-i). Designed by Dr. Robert Epstein, one of America's most distinguished psychologists, this is an inventory of four types of skills that are important for everyday and long-term stress management. The content of the test is based on scientific studies, and the test has been empirically validated. This is just the start; once you know your ESMI scores, there are many avenues you might pursue to improve your stress-management skills.
www.dana.org
The Dana organization is known as “your gateway to ‘free’ information about the brain and brain research”. For a range of the richest and latest brain research on communication, interpersonal relationships and the brain in difficult conversations visit the Dana organization website.
http://www.thehawnfoundation.org/
Goldie Hawn’s website dedicated to improving the lives of children through learning and neuroscience. “The Hawn Foundation seeks to help transform children's lives by providing them with opportunities to acquire vital social and emotional skills, to improve academic performance, enhance the quality of their lives, and help others in their community.” This is the perfect website to view scientifically sound approaches to teaching, engaging and supporting children to manage conflict.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/
Get the latest issue of scientific mind online and read the most current brain research including insights into how the brain operates in conflict and how to support your brain, your team’s brains, and your family’s brains to be the healthiest brains they can be.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=multitasking-mind
Discover the potential links between multitasking, self control, and the benefits of reactivity vs. proactivity.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/search/?q=multitasking
View the latest Scientific Mind articles outlining the impact of multitasking on the human brain. Learn strategies to manage what professionals call "a necessary evil".
http://www.mindfulnet.org/index.htm
Are you new to mindfulness? This website brings together everything you need to know about mindful living and the positive impact on your brain and your relationships. You have access to websites, audio recordings, books and articles on how to engage in mindfulness practices in a practical and realistic manner. There is no fluff here.
brainconnection.positscience.com
Brain Connection focuses on providing information on how the brain works with a specialized focus on how learning happens in the brain. You’ll have access to brain basics, a gallery of brain images and fun brain games for all ages. A must see for school community members, parents and any individual engaged in teaching, coaching or supporting others to excel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqaqrDnhzDw
This video gives you a general overview of restorative justice and what processes can look like. You will have the opportunity to hear directly from people involved in restorative processes.
http://www.iirp.org/pdf/whatisrp.pdf
This website gives an overview of how restorative practices extend past restorative justice in the legal/criminal sense to building relationships in families, schools and workplace organizations.
This book provides insights into the challenge of saying no to requests at home and in the workplace. It provides sound strategies to incorporate 'no' into your world while illuminating the costs associated with being too nice.
http://www.odinbooks.ca/
This website links you directly to Odin Books, a specialty bookstore that efficiently provides you with a wealth of books, CDs, DVDs, audios, games and posters to meet your conflict management needs and provide additional information in the areas of education, family, the brain, Restorative Justice, training, mental health, mindfulness and leadership. Type in any of the mentioned fields or a combination of them and you’ll find resources with detailed overviews to help you choose the resource that is best for you.