Explore a new way of understanding and transforming conflict.

Objetive

This workshop offers a different perspective on conflict, understanding its potential as an opportunity for learning and growth. Through practical tools of Nonviolent Communication, participants will develop skills to address conflicts with respect and equality.

Contents:

1. Introductory Exercise: Reflection on Conflict
   1. Key question: What is conflict for you?
   2. Group dynamic to identify common perceptions about conflict
   3. Exploration: What associations do we have with the word “conflict”?
   4. Generation of a collective mind map
2. Understanding Our Emotions in Conflict
   1. Key question: How do we feel in a conflict situation?
   2. Identification of emotions and how they manifest in the body
   3. How these emotions affect and limit us
3. Needs in Conflict
   1. Key question: What do we need in times of conflict?
   2. How are we programmed: emotions and unmet needs
   3. Reprogramming our thinking: Introduction to the Nonviolent Communication model: observations, feelings, needs, and requests
4. Dynamics: Applying the 4 steps of NVC.
   1. Guided practice: Group exercise to transform real or hypothetical conflicts into opportunities
5. Closing and Conclusions

What will you learn?

• A new perspective on conflict, seeing it as an opportunity for learning
• Practical tools to manage conflict respectfully and effectively
• How to identify your emotions and needs in conflict situations
• How to foster connection and equality

Bio:

Gabriela Freese is a passionate leader with expertise in organizational transformation, innovation, sustainability, and collaboration. Her international experience, having lived in Spain, Germany, Mexico, and Chile, has enriched her understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives. With a background in interior design, architecture, and construction, she has contributed to significant international museography projects and later shifted her focus to sustainability, decarbonization, and social transformation through architecture.

Gabriela believes profound change begins within ourselves, driven by self-awareness and the connection between head and heart. She has been training for several years in pedagogy oriented toward education in connection, psychology to understand and foster intrinsic motivation, and especially in Nonviolent Communication and the Theory of Basic Human Needs, which have become the axis of her work. She is fascinated by power structures and how radically different people feel when shifting from power-over-others to power-with-others. Her strategic and systemic vision helps her form complex maps of how people work together and how connections can foster collaboration for a common goal. She uses this learning experience to support and assist others in their journey.

Gabriela invites us to explore a new way of understanding and transforming conflict together!