Deb:   This is an insightful post from an blog author connected with a respected Organization Development conference group.  I've excerpted some of the highlights I've found to be true in reframing conflict as neutral and even useful as it can indicate catharsis or communication progress.  I've found this to be an alternate perspective that can be healthy and healing to my leadership clients.  

Excerpted:  What does Aikido teach us?   Aikido’s first teaching is in the way it frames attack. The Aikidoist sees the attack, the conflict, as energy to be utilized—as a gift.

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When I frame conflict as a gift, I am willing to engage, explore, and work with it. By changing my view, I change my relationship to the conflict.

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...We all encounter unwished-for events, people, and problems every day. To successfully manage these conflicts, we manage ourselves. When I experience conflict as attack, I resist, defend, or avoid. When I frame conflict as a gift, I am willing to engage, explore, and work with it. By changing my view, I change my relationship to the conflict.

... But how do we actually make this shift when our emotions are triggered? This is Aikido’s second teaching.   ...What Aikido offers, through movement and repetition, is in-the-body re-patterning, which helps us regain awareness and power over our trigger points. 

Read the full post via blog.pegasuscom.com

Originally posted from Deb's Reveln Consulting blog.  Deb also blogs about leadership,  innovation, emerging trends, social media, business strategy, news, higher education and fun stuff . You can learn more about her background & projects on the mothership at Reveln Consulting.