Conflict as Transformer

Explore the Edge: Root & Web, a series of blog articles on conflict as a transformer by Lola Wilcox.

  • Equinox Sunset

Meat and Salt: Equinox

When I first began thinking about Shakespeare’s King Lear and arrogance, I looked in the text for the youngest daughter’s response to her father’s [...]

Meat and Salt: Equinox2023-03-14T19:03:30+00:00
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Arrogance

My Shakespearian actor husband, Chuck Wilcox, began his Boulder Colorado Shakespeare Festival career playing Kent in King Lear. Kent is a truth-telling peer and [...]

Arrogance2023-03-13T16:17:47+00:00

Attitude: Unto All Generations

Many personal conflicts seed and grow from conscious and unconscious acceptance of ancestral conflicts. Until we understand our inheritance we can be trapped inside [...]

Attitude: Unto All Generations2022-09-10T20:36:09+00:00
  • Trust Triangle

Attitude: Deep Roots, Dangerous Webs

Looking inside E for Engage means exploring Attitude. Don’t underestimate this word. Attitude is the key that unlocks the conflict. Two attitudes, at the [...]

Attitude: Deep Roots, Dangerous Webs2022-09-10T20:47:22+00:00

Role Training

Embarrassed both by their conflict’s Root Cause, and the two unhealthy Webs they had created, the two supervisors in Case Study #1 (see below) [...]

Role Training2022-09-10T20:48:46+00:00
  • Lola Wilcox on Conflict

Symptoms, Sources, Solutions

The first task in conflict management is to notice you are in one – either by recognizing your own symptoms or those of others [...]

Symptoms, Sources, Solutions2022-09-10T20:49:19+00:00
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Working the Edge

Case Study #1: Twenty Years of Baggage Question 1:  When did you first become aware of, get to know each other? [...]

Working the Edge2022-09-10T20:50:19+00:00
  • Tug of War

Tug of War

Three words can encompass a conflict: Root, Web and Edge. If you know these three things you can manage or even resolve most conflicts. [...]

Tug of War2021-04-07T01:46:33+00:00

Have Baggage. Looking for Conflict.

If we have a negative experience with conflict we tend to avoid, suppress, smooth over, “wait for emotions to cool down”, deny it’s happening, [...]

Have Baggage. Looking for Conflict.2022-09-10T20:52:06+00:00

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