Safety Planning – What Every Conflict Resolver Needs to Know from The Werner Institute on Vimeo.

Conflict Resolvers routinely enter into conversations and circumstances most would choose to avoid. These conversations can contain some of the strongest emotional triggers, and create the most stressful situations, that we may ever experience. Join Stephen Kotev, Chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution’s Task force on Safety in ADR to learn how to prepare, what to ask, and what to do to care for yourself and your clients in the most dangerous of circumstances.

Click here for the ACR Guidelines for Safety.

Presenter Bio: 

Stephen Kotev is a Washington D.C. based conflict resolution consultant and Chair of the Association for Conflict Resolution Taskforce on Safety in ADR. He holds a Master of Science degree from George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido.

Stephen specializes in training conflict resolvers on how to maintain their calm in the most stressful of situations and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on this topic for George Mason University. He can be reached at www.StephenKotev.com.