A short overview of the course
In this short video, Dr Samantha Hardy introduces the course and explains how it will enhance your practice.
CONGRATULATIONS on completing Module 1 of the course.
In this short video, Dr Samantha Hardy introduces the course and explains how it will enhance your practice.
Each module includes around 2 hours of short video lessons and a workbook to apply your learning to your own experiences and context.
Learn about how emotions are created, how they work, and their function in individual and social contexts. Explore cultural aspects of emotions. Discover how to develop emotional intelligence and agility.
Discover why and how we express emotions. Identify the factors that determine whether an emotional expression is beneficial. Consider how we express emotions in various ways. Learn about the challenges in interpreting others' emotional expressions.
Learn about how we can regulate our emotions, individually or with the support of others. Discover a range of strategies for emotional regulation and learn how and when each is most useful.
Explore some of the most common emotions and how they impact on conflict. Discover how both negative and positive emotions can be harnessed to support effective conflict management.
Explore how emotions can affect different conflict management processes such as negotiation, conflict coaching, mediation and facilitation.
Discover the importance of our own emotions as practitioners and how we can use them to effectively support others in conflict, to experience, regulate and express their emotions in constructive ways.
Preview the course introduction here, and find out why emotions and conflict are so intertwined!
Dr Samantha Hardy is the principal of Conflict Coaching International, and the Director and Lead Trainer for The Conflict Management Academy. She is an experienced mediator and conflict coach and the founder of the REAL Conflict Coaching Systemâ„¢. She provides conflict support to managers and leaders across the world. She also provides professional development training, supervision and mentorship to mediators and coaches who work with clients in conflict.
Sam has been accredited as a mediator under the Australian National Mediation Accreditation System and is a Certified Transformative Mediator by the US Institute of Conflict Transformation. She is a Certified Narrative Coach.
In 2021 Sam was awarded the Australian Resolution Institute Award for Service to Dispute Resolution for her leadership and innovation in the field. She was also awarded 2022 Conflict Coach of the Year at the Australian Dispute Resolution Awards.
Sam holds a PhD in Law and Conflict Resolution, as well as other postgraduate qualifications in adult education.
Sam is a well known trainer and university educator, holding adjunct appointments at a number of universities in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the USA.
Sam has also published widely in conflict resolution, including her books Dispute Resolution in Australia, Mediation for Lawyers and Conflict Coaching Fundamentals: Working with Conflict Stories.
Develop the capacity to support people to better work with their emotions for constructive conflict management.