What keeps us human beings from resolving
conflicts constructively and compassionately,
going from dug in anger and resentment to
peace and love? What vision is required for
truly transforming conflict? The profound
peacemaking principles of John Paul Lederach
offer both a blueprint and challenge for resolving
conflicts with our real and imagined “enemies.”
His principles outline a transformative approach to conflict,
rather than a power-based, rights-based, or even interest-based
approach. However, transforming conflict into cooperation, anger
and resentment into love, not only requires mindfulness and
presence, but also a fundamental knowledge of our own typerelated
defensiveness and reactivity that only the Enneagram
offers. In this way the Enneagram brings us into alignment with
Lederach’s simple and far reaching principles. If your personal,
professional, and/or spiritual path embraces “peacemaking,” this
session is for you!
David Daniels, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry and
behavioral sciences at Stanford Medical School and co-author
of The Essential Enneagram. In private practice for over three
decades, David has taught the Enneagram system at Stanford, in
the community, through the Enneagram Professional Training
Program, and internationally for 20 years. He brings his
knowledge of the Enneagram to individuals, couples, and groups,
and to a wide range of personal and workplace applications.
David is one of the founders of the IEA, having organized the first
international conference at Stanford in 1994.
Curt Micka is a mediator and attorney with more than 20 years
experience in the field of conflict management. Through his
business, Conflict Management Services, he offers mediation,
conflict coaching and consulting, facilitation, and conflict
management training. He’s a former member of the IEA Board
of Directors and the current President of the Minnesota Chapter
of the IEA (MN-IEA). |