According to the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer: 40% of people worldwide—across all age groups—believe that hostile actions, such as cyberattacks, violence, or property damage, are acceptable ways to drive societal change.
Embracing Conflict for Greater Connection, Collaboration, and Belonging
The One Day Experience
This reality underscores the urgency of our work. Our priority with this program is to reframe conflict not as a derailer of progress, but as a doorway to the very things we long for most as human beings and need to thrive together:
Connection. Collaboration. Belonging.
Building on the momentum of the 107th LFC Summit, we are excited to introduce a one-day customizable program designed to bring the Summit’s insights and tools directly into your own organization or team – from emerging to senior leaders.
Participants will embark on a journey of embracing conflict:
- Thinking Bigger: Why Embracing Conflict is Essential for Collective Success
- Acting Bolder: Developing Courage & Empathy in Conflict
- Collaborating Better: Moving from Conflict to Collective Impact
SUMMIT IMPACT ON PARTICIPANTS
One-Day Agenda
MORNING SESSION
Welcome (15 minutes)
Opening: Your Conflict Story (30 minutes)
- Interactive exercise to create psychological safety.
Crossing the Divide: Lessons from the Lincoln Highway (60 minutes)
- Discover that what divides us is rarely as simple as it seems, and that democracy depends not on agreement, but on our willingness to stay in relationship across disagreement.
Break (15 minutes)
Awareness Intelligence: Thinking Bigger for Collective Success (90 minutes)
- Practice UpSpiral Leadership’s model: choose curiosity over certainty, connection over division.
- Build consciousness to think beyond immediate triggers.
LUNCH (60 minutes)
AFTERNOON SESSION
Using Conflict as a Resource (30 minutes)
- Shift from viewing conflict as a problem to raw material for innovation and growth.
Healing Through Tension: The Charleston Story (60 minutes)
- Learn from the Charleston Trio’s response to the 2015 Mother Emanuel AME Church tragedy.
- Hold competing values in creative tension.
Break (15 minutes)
Polarity Management: Mapping the Tension (60 minutes)
- Learn and practice a framework for managing polarities, not just solving problems.
- Apply to persistent organizational challenges.
Integration & Commitments (30 minutes)
- Identify specific practices, share commitments, and create accountability partnerships.
Investment: $8,000-$15,000
This program is fully customizable for teams of 20-100 participants and can be facilitated online, in-person, or through a blended approach to best suit your team’s needs.
Provocateurs
Erica Schwartz-Hall
Margaret Siedler
Chief Gregory Mullen (Ret.)
Christopher “Poppa Smurf” Ralph Cason
