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I highly recommend enrolling for Brook’s Generative Conflict course. Brook’s approach is practical, intelligent, forward thinking, informative and refreshing. I completed the course feeling well-resourced with tools and new ways to think about conflict from a trauma informed lens. I have new ideas of ways I can lean into conflict as a leader that feel brave and full of possibility. I also loved that there was space to hear from a community of other participants to learn from real life examples and struggles from the field.

Brook is an expert teacher and facilitator! The way she holds space for process while simultaneously instructing and guiding creates the kind of safe spaces in which true transformation can take place!

Our world is full of conflict and we meet it every day in our families, at work, in the media we consume, in community and in our play. This course gives me hope for the future and a way to be better for myself and the people I care about regardless of where I am. The facilitator modelled the practice, took care of the group and brought both challenging questions and thoughtful reflections. This work helps us be better people and it’s really worth the time.

I worked with Brook for the 8-Week Generative Conflict training and am walking away more informed about the embodied elements of conflict. This immersive training included role play, group work and reflection activities that empowered me, and left me feeling more competent in managing interpersonal conflict and the emotions that accompany it. What a gift!

I honestly expected this course to be more theory and scenario-driven and, while those components are really solid, this experience requires an ‘all in’ type of participation to really get the most out of it. If you’re not willing to be open, authentic and vulnerable, you’ll miss the deepest and most insightful lessons. Brook makes it safe to do that and guides the group to create a supportive learning experience together – that’s what makes this course so impactful and rare.

I had the opportunity to take Brook’s Generative Conflict course this spring, and I couldn’t help but wonder why I didn’t learn this in high school instead of trigonometry. Every time I have experienced conflict I vowed to get better at it but rarely found good resources. Brook’s course is that resource. We looked at frameworks and guidelines to create a better understanding of all of the many things that could be happening for people leading up to and during conflict. The course was super interesting, very enlightening, and really practical. I like to have things that I can take out into the world and try out. The course was expertly facilitated with just enough content and lots of time to work with it in different ways. I couldn’t recommend this course enough to anyone who would like to embrace conflict as an opportunity for growth.

As a seasoned leader, change maker, and coach, I already have a strong foundation (or so I thought) in navigating conflict with teams and organizations. I wasn’t sure how much Brook Thorndycraft’s course Generative Conflict would add to my toolkit, but I was happy to find it was one of the best investments I made this year in my professional development and learning. I walked away from the course with increased capacity and competence to get underneath a conflict and assess what is really happening at the individual and system levels. We learned to apply a trauma-informed approach to engaging in difficult conversations, understand our own responses and ways of showing up in conflict, and practice new tools to listen more deeply. Since the course finished, I have pulled out the resources and tools almost on a weekly basis. If you are looking to build your conflict competence and skills and add practical tools to your toolbox, I highly recommend the Generative Conflict course. It’s one of the best courses on the market to support leaders, coaches, and facilitators in deepening their ability to engage in generative conflict. And Brook is a very skilled facilitator!