What is the Partnership Way of Conflict Resolution?
The Partnership Way of resolving conflicts embraces conflict as an opportunity for deepening the love connection between people and advancing their consciousness. When we discovered that most conflicts contain dualities that create experiences of separation, we created developmental and systemic tools for embracing and uniting light and shadow or dark inside people so that they can experience more intimacy. The Partnership Way also emphasizes the role of developmental trauma as a source of conflict, particularly the intractable ones, and stresses the need to clear it from your nervous system in order to stop the unconscious recycling of behaviors. We’ve found that internal personal conflicts often get projected onto others. Carl Jung called these our “shadow” parts. For example, if a person has an unresolved conflict or trauma from the past, he or she may project the essential elements of that conflict or trauma and see it as existing in an intimate partner or a boss at work. Collectiv
