Please register before September 12, 10am IST.”
WomenLift Health is hosting an interactive virtual workshop to provide mid-career women working in global and public health in South Asia with the information and tools to navigate conflict dynamics at the workplace to move towards more constructive and positive responses.
Conflict Dynamics: Build Better Relationships
Conflict is inevitable, unavoidable, complex, and can be mentally, emotionally, and physically draining, and difficult to navigate. Conflict can also negatively impact personal progress and goals, team dynamics, and workplace culture. Research shows that women tend to avoid disagreement, corresponding to socially constructed norms of femininity.
Conflict can also serve a purpose. It can generate new solutions, build better relationships, and can increase job satisfaction. It is key to innovation and can be a critical component of risk mitigation. Conflict follows a predictable pathway and will diverge to become either constructive or destructive. The question for this workshop is: How do we navigate the path of conflict so that it is constructive, and we can walk away feeling positive, relaxed, and even motivated?
In this session, for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike, we will explore the Conflict Dynamics Model by unpacking the behaviours and actions that influence interpersonal conflict. Attendees will reflect on and map out a recent work disagreement by focusing on the active, passive, constructive and destructive response pathways. We will understand how to identify our own “hot buttons” and contributions to either escalating or de-escalating a conflict.
PowerUp Objectives
This session will unpack the behaviours and actions that influence interpersonal conflict at the workplace. You will:
- Examine how your approach to conflict affects your health, and the health of your relationships at work and at home
- Explore how we can shift to a more positive, constructive response in conflict situations.
Who Can Attend?
You are eligible for the workshop if you meet all the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman;
- Live and work in a South Asian country (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka); and
- Are a mid-career professional working in public or global health in South Asia.
Although women at all career stages are welcome to register, we believe participants who are at the mid-career stage will benefit most since the content of the workshop has been designed with mid-career women health professionals in mind (10+ years of experience working in the health sector).
This virtual workshop will be conducted in the English language and is free of cost.
Note: Enrolment into the workshop will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. Spots are limited—the session can accommodate up to 150 attendees. Submission of a registration form does not guarantee a spot in the workshop. Only applicants who have been accepted or waitlisted for the workshop will be contacted.