The art of fighting the transformative power of conflict
"Parker draws on her far-reaching experience as a conflict facilitator, her own detailed research, and real-world examples to lay out the ways that people can identify disputes, determine how to address them, and what to do if they are insurmountable"-- Provided by publisher.
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Tear. Why is this happening?
- An ode to obvious questions
- Assessing what kind of fight you're in
- How to keep a kerfuffle a kerfuffle
- Just dive in? Not so fast
- The surprising power of banter.
- Part II: Grapple. The craft of excavation
- Don't throw the baby of insight out with the bathwater of gossip
- What is the actual need?
- Conflict rituals: what we can learn from the vikings, palavers, and real housewives reunions
- The fight plan
- Preparing your body for a fight
- The r(z)oom where it happens
- Taking the proxy out of a proxy war.
- Part III: Cleave. The aftermath: emotional hangovers, meaning-making, and a vacuum
- Should I stay or should I go?
- Three gut checks
- Cleaving: parting and breaking (up)
- When the old guard refuses to budge
- Cleaving: binding and changing
- Epilogue: The art of fighting comes home.
