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    Put down your guns

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    Fighting for everyone to win While I am on holidays I thought I would do a series of posts about a strategy for dealing with conflict. Conflict isn’t a bad thing, in fact I would like to suggest that it’s not possible to have real community without it. However most of us find conflict difficult and experience it as a fight to get someone else to see the world the way we do. Carl Jung said: “The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable…

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