Re-assessment of Conflict Summary
In my original conflict summary, I talked about a conflict I had with a complete stranger over aggressive driving. On an early summer morning, I was driving home from work very tired and experienced a close call by a car cutting me off. The man thought I cut him off, but that wasn’t how I saw it. The man ended up following me almost all the way home, when I decided to pull to the side of the road at the beginning of my street and see what he wanted. The man was angry and I tried calming him down, when this wasn’t working, attention was drawn from my neighbours and one of them came out to mediate. The conflict was solved in a positive manner in the end.
Referring to Systems Theory, the person that was in the …show more content…
Proliferation of issues is when there is no trust and people really begin to see the other person as the problem, not themselves or the issue at hand. In this stage people usually pick out and exclaim all the reasons as to why they think the other person is the problem. I think this conflict was stage three, proliferation of issues because our eyes were not on the issue at hand, the man was targeting me and saying I was the problem and then he started giving me reasons and saying that the near-accident happened because I was young, dumb and a poor driver. This conflict may have escalated further, however my neighbour came out and helped de-escalate the …show more content…
I will make sure I get my intent across, so the person understands I didn’t intentionally mean to hurt them. I will give them my full attention and let them know that I understand the effects my actions had on them. I also will make it clear the effects their actions had on me. I also feel like there was more to the man’s back-story that I didn’t understand, so in the future I will try to get into my back-story more in hopes that the other person will as well. Also, instead of avoiding the situation, in the future I will use more of a collaborative approach and practise good communications and actually value the issue and the relationship, even if I hardly know the person. Changing these things and implementing better communication will create a safer and more understanding atmosphere for problem solving, and everyone will feel
In my original conflict summary, I talked about a conflict I had with a complete stranger over aggressive driving. On an early summer morning, I was driving home from work very tired and experienced a close call by a car cutting me off. The man thought I cut him off, but that wasn’t how I saw it. The man ended up following me almost all the way home, when I decided to pull to the side of the road at the beginning of my street and see what he wanted. The man was angry and I tried calming him down, when this wasn’t working, attention was drawn from my neighbours and one of them came out to mediate. The conflict was solved in a positive manner in the end.
Referring to Systems Theory, the person that was in the …show more content…
Proliferation of issues is when there is no trust and people really begin to see the other person as the problem, not themselves or the issue at hand. In this stage people usually pick out and exclaim all the reasons as to why they think the other person is the problem. I think this conflict was stage three, proliferation of issues because our eyes were not on the issue at hand, the man was targeting me and saying I was the problem and then he started giving me reasons and saying that the near-accident happened because I was young, dumb and a poor driver. This conflict may have escalated further, however my neighbour came out and helped de-escalate the …show more content…
I will make sure I get my intent across, so the person understands I didn’t intentionally mean to hurt them. I will give them my full attention and let them know that I understand the effects my actions had on them. I also will make it clear the effects their actions had on me. I also feel like there was more to the man’s back-story that I didn’t understand, so in the future I will try to get into my back-story more in hopes that the other person will as well. Also, instead of avoiding the situation, in the future I will use more of a collaborative approach and practise good communications and actually value the issue and the relationship, even if I hardly know the person. Changing these things and implementing better communication will create a safer and more understanding atmosphere for problem solving, and everyone will feel