

Facilitation Playground: the Yellow Brick Road to Navigating Conflict at Work
🎨 Playground: Practice facilitation, active learning, and workshop design. Host a session, try new methods, and get community feedback. Courage over perfection! ✨ Participation: Highly interactive, with cameras on, breakout sessions, and whiteboards.
✨ Participation: Interactive webinar, chat, polls, and sometimes breakouts.
🎬 What is this session about:
Transform your own experience of workplace conflict as you follow Dorothy on her journey through the land of Oz, making new friends, dealing with grave threats, and finding unexpected solutions, finally returning home to the peace and quiet of Kansas.
This powerful analogy will stay with you for the rest of your career and offer a useful reference for every future conflict you find yourself stuck in, helping guide you through and back to your own productive peace.
🎁 Key takeaways:
a framework that will help keep you grounded and effective while responding to conflict
direct experience with critical de-escalation techniques
collaborative tactics for generating transformative new solutions
🗣 About our incredible host:
Leif Early is a conflict revolutionist and founder of Living Bridge, an organization transforming how we communicate and collaborate under pressure. With over a decade of experience in facilitation, mediation, and relational leadership, he helps teams and leaders move through conflict with clarity, compassion, and confidence—building cultures of trust and psychological safety, one conversation at a time.