Explore the Edge: Root & Web, a series of blog articles on conflict as a transformer by Lola Wilcox.
Fools and Nets: Who Survives and How
A fool, a fool. I met a fool i’ the forest, A motley fool. (Jaques, As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7) If [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: How Conflict Management Styles Determine Outcome
Your life is and will be about relentlessly becoming the Self you were born to be – unless you throttle yourself so thoroughly you [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
Working the Edge
Case Study #1: Twenty Years of Baggage Question 1: When did you first become aware of, get to know each other? [...]
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. [...]
