Hi.
My name is Ellen Ott Marshall, and
I teach at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Welcome to the second week of this course on conflict transformation
our focus this week is self assessment which is
the most important starting place in the work of conflict transformation.
We can't simply storm into a conflict zone and try to transform things
there without paying attention to what we're bringing with us moreover, in just
our everyday actions in life we need to be really attentive to the ways in which we
experience conflict and how we're sort of triggered or tend to respond to it.
So, self-assessment is absolutely key.
It's key to constructive engagement with conflict.
There are many different ways to get clarity about how you respond to conflict,
many different kinds of self assessment.
I want to tell you about three of them and each kind has its own purpose.
It reveals certain kinds of information about you.
And you have a different sort of experience in completing these different,
Self-assessments.
The first is a self-assessment instrument that is more like a personality test,
so you are given a series of questions and you are asked how you respond.
It is important to have a concrete example in mind
because we respond very differently to conflict in different settings.
These instruments are helpful because they give you a result
that's related to some five different types of conflict response.
And so you can take that individual experience and
map it onto a range of possible reactions and
we're going to talk about that considerably in a future lesson.