Fighting well with Max St. John

If we're going to work together better we need to be able to manage conflict in a healthy way. There are some big, seemingly intractable problems that need to be solved in the world (as well as some smaller ones) that will need a collaborative and collective approach to deal with them.

With any groups there will be friction and being able to work through our differences will be key to working effectively.In this episode I talk to Max St John, founder of Being Wild Things and author of the Fighting Well course. He's a trainer/coach/consultant/facilitator whose work focuses on helping people manage conflict.

We talk about his small holding in Cornwall and working with nature as well as his work in helping people fight well.Some choice excerpts are:

- Who am I, who are you and how can we work together better?

- The high frequencies that we vibrate at that are not in tune with the slower frequencies of nature.

- You can't do a Facebook campaign to accelerates your pea growth!

- Unhealthy conflict = unconsciously reacting and creating distance.

- Healthy conflict = awareness of my reactions and how I can choose to react in a way that best serves the situation.

- Meaningful work is a creative expression of ourselves and so negative feedback can really hurt and trigger us to react unhealthily.

Find out more about what he does by going to his website or just listen to the podcast on iTunes or online on Anchor.fm.