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All faculty and staff are invited to join a workshop where you will explore tools for engaging in meaningful and effective dialogue as journalists and educators. These tools will equip you to analyze complexities, listen more attentively, and express yourself more clearly. By uncovering the understory of conflicts, you’ll gain insights into understanding and communicating about difficult situations as reporters, educators, colleagues, and in everyday life.
Join the workshop to develop practical skills, including how to:
- Distinguish between ‘High Conflict’ and ‘Good Conflict’ and recognize the value of having ‘Good Conflict’.
- Identify the 4 Fire Starters that lead to ‘High Conflict’ and how to stay in ‘Good Conflict’
- Uncover and Investigate the root of the conflict, instead of what it appears to be, by finding the ‘Understory’
- Practice a listening technique called looping with your peers.
Amanda Ripley and Hélène Biandudi Hofer, Co-Founders of Good Conflict, are journalists who have brought their trainings on conflict to newsrooms and journalism schools around the U.S., including Medill, Scripps, Poynter, the Solutions Journalism Network and more.
About the Speakers:
Amanda Ripley
Co-Founder, Good Conflict
Amanda Ripley is a New York Times bestselling author and an investigative journalist. Her projects combine storytelling with data to help illuminate hard problems—and solutions. Her books include High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way, and The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—and Why. Ripley also spent a decade writing about human behavior for Time magazine in New York, Washington, and Paris, helping Time win two National Magazine Awards. She has reported from Colombia, South Korea, Finland, Poland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Jordan, Oman, and France. Ripley is also a trained conflict mediator and a (less well-trained) soccer coach. She lives with her family in Washington, DC.
Hélène Biandudi Hofer
Co-Founder, Good Conflict
Hélène Biandudi Hofer is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. For nearly a decade, she led an award-winning TV news magazine program focused on exploring remedies to societal challenges. Her work spans investigating police reform in the United States to examining education in South Sudan. Most recently, Hélène developed and managed the Solutions Journalism Network’s Complicating the Narratives (CTN) project. CTN is a journalistic practice that can transform news coverage about controversial issues. She trained more than 1,500 journalists across 125 newsrooms throughout the world. Hélène has worked with CBS, NPR, and PBS. She credits her passion for journalism to her Nkoko [great-grandmother], who was the oral historian of the Biandudi family in Kinshasa, DRC.
Learn more about the Good Conflict Workshop here.