Communication - Personal Conflict
Personal Conflict
My name is Tom , and I have experienced several interpersonal conflicts with family, friend, and a total stranger. Throughout this paper I’m going to discuss an interpersonal conflict that I experienced with my parent and my family and friend. I will do this by addressing the elements of a conflict which include the parties involved in the conflict, the actual issue of the conflict, and the context of the conflict and later identifying conflict management strategies, behaviors, outcomes, and the conflict aftermath using the Conflict Lens Model. First I will begin with an historical overview of how I grew up dealing with conflict in my family. Dealing with conflict in one of three ways; either avoid conflict, discuss conflict in a collaborative manner, or they’re extremely aggressive when they experience a conflict. My family unfortunately dealt with conflict in an aggressive manner. When a conflict would arise in my family we always tried to talk the problem through, but within five to ten minutes of discussing the issue name calling, yelling, and dramatic behavior would always transpire. This would happen because everyone in my family always believed that they were right even if it was blatantly obvious that they were incorrect. The arguing would go around and around with no feasible outcome. Usually, after a night of arguing everyone would go to bed upset, but wake up the next morning and act as if the big blow up from the night before was not important. The conflict then would be avoided until it was imperative that it needed to be discussed and managed. Never dealing with conflict in a proper manner has put a strain on many of my relationships, especially with my family. The interpersonal conflict that I experienced with my parent occurred back in November of 1981. The parties that were involved within this conflict were my mother Hazel, my friend (Greg), my brother (Keith), and sister(Carla) and I. The
My name is Tom , and I have experienced several interpersonal conflicts with family, friend, and a total stranger. Throughout this paper I’m going to discuss an interpersonal conflict that I experienced with my parent and my family and friend. I will do this by addressing the elements of a conflict which include the parties involved in the conflict, the actual issue of the conflict, and the context of the conflict and later identifying conflict management strategies, behaviors, outcomes, and the conflict aftermath using the Conflict Lens Model. First I will begin with an historical overview of how I grew up dealing with conflict in my family. Dealing with conflict in one of three ways; either avoid conflict, discuss conflict in a collaborative manner, or they’re extremely aggressive when they experience a conflict. My family unfortunately dealt with conflict in an aggressive manner. When a conflict would arise in my family we always tried to talk the problem through, but within five to ten minutes of discussing the issue name calling, yelling, and dramatic behavior would always transpire. This would happen because everyone in my family always believed that they were right even if it was blatantly obvious that they were incorrect. The arguing would go around and around with no feasible outcome. Usually, after a night of arguing everyone would go to bed upset, but wake up the next morning and act as if the big blow up from the night before was not important. The conflict then would be avoided until it was imperative that it needed to be discussed and managed. Never dealing with conflict in a proper manner has put a strain on many of my relationships, especially with my family. The interpersonal conflict that I experienced with my parent occurred back in November of 1981. The parties that were involved within this conflict were my mother Hazel, my friend (Greg), my brother (Keith), and sister(Carla) and I. The