Conflict is at the heart of life. It impacts relationships of the
heart, the home, the community, and at work. Most flee from it,
some embrace it, but few learn how to master conflict and
productively transform it into a consensus. Author Robert Chadwick
is one of those few. For over forty years, he has been helping
individuals and communities experience and learn how to best
address their personal, interpersonal, and intergroup conflicts. In
Finding New Ground, he shares his insights and a process from his
storied career as a conflict resolution manager. He shows readers
how to apply these insights and the process in their own life
situations, finding new ground in their relationships, creating a
path to a way of being that changes everyone around them. The
author's purpose is to help you experience, learn, and understand a
process for addressing and resolving conflicts and building
consensus with 100 percent agreement. The book informs readers on
how people define conflict, their feelings about it, what causes
it, the arenas in which it occurs, and why conflict must always be
confronted. It demonstrates why people avoid resolving their
conflicts. It demonstrates what a true consensus is and why it is
always possible. A central section of the book explores an
intergroup conflict that erupts over the use of a fictional river
basin in the American West. This fictional account is based on
Chadwick's real-life experience, providing a context for learning
about the process in a real way. You are part of the story as a
co-facilitator with the author. Throughout this story the actual
words and statements of previous workshop participants are used to
create a sense of reality. Through this story, the reader will
vicariously experience and understand the complexity of this simple
consensus building process and learn how to apply the skills and
tools for finding new ground. These include the use of the circle,
listening with respect, empowering yourself and others, creating a
sense of equity, and fostering a sense of community. This real life
situation shows how a conflict-riddled group moved from
divisiveness and animosity to consensus while they crafted a short
term purpose, a long term vision, articulated shared beliefs, and
developed a common strategic plan. His model of consensus building
has worked across different cultures. It has been deployed in
countries like India, Thailand, Canada, Hong Kong, Russia, and
Belgium. His workshop participants cut a wide swath through
contemporary society, ranging from loggers and librarians to police
officers, educators, and professional managers. His methods have
been used by people from a range of ages, from kindergarten
students to senior citizens in their ninth decade of life.
Chadwick's book presents a proven transformative model for
addressing contemporary conflicts and building consensus.
Individuals, families, community, churches, and businesses all
stand to learn a lot from his unique approach to finding new
ground. His method is grounded in reality, and through building
consensus allows participants to move beyond the hostility of
conflict to fostering the creation of civility and community.
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