Discover your Conflict Styles

Do you wish you could improve your response to tense conflict situations? While your emotional reaction may feel automatic, with increased awareness and practice, you can choose how you respond in conflict situations.

In this workshop, Laura Bowles, Certified Mediator and Conflict Coach, shares five styles for approaching conflict, based on the Style Matters conflict styles inventory. Participants will take the assessment prior to the workshop, learn about their own patterns in conflict and where they come from, and identify strategies for leveraging each style wisely and effectively. Participants will also learn about how emotions impact approaches to conflict, and will leave with self-awareness and stress management tools to support a healthy sense of well-being, even in conflict.

The workshop covers:

? What impacts conflict styles

? Style Matters: Kraybill’s Conflict Styles framework

? Understanding your conflict style

? Recognizing how your emotions may shift your response to conflict

? Strategies and tools for self-awareness and stress management in conflict

Dates are Part 1: Sept 10, 2025 and Part 2: Sept 17, 2025 from 6pm-7:30pm via zoom

About the Presenter

Laura Bowles is the owner of The New Normal, LLC. As a Career, Leadership and Conflict Coach, she partners with individuals as they move through life’s many chapters and define success for themselves, both in the personal and professional space. Laura believes that we each bring a distinct set of leadership skills with us when we show up at work and at home. Recognizing, cultivating, and embracing one’s unique style is the path to thriving and flourishing.

Laura draws on her education, nonprofit, and government experience as a parent educator, employment counselor, program manager, and certified mediator to provide coaching and training for individuals and groups. She earned her undergraduate degree at the College of William and Mary, trained as a leadership coach at George Mason University, is credentialed as an Associate Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and is certified as a mediator through the Supreme Court of Virginia.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS ON ZOOM. LINK IS IN CONFIRMATION EMAIL.

All proceeds benefit The Women's Center and its programs.