TENSION REVELATION
You may be familiar with “Conflict Resolution” practices. Conflict or tension is natural within communities or teams as humans have many varying needs and perspectives to consider. Working with others often brings many personal things to the surface. If not appropriately navigated, tension can lead to conflict which can demoralize a group and limit effectively reaching shared goals. Tension Revelation honors not only striving to resolve conflict, but also learning to reveal the greater gifts of conflictual situations by staying present to challenges and finding the way to reveal what “medicine”or new understanding lays underneath tension.
Tension Revelation works best as a system of best practices along with rhythmic peer and personal reviews/community check-ins, feedback sessions, clear decision making policies, effective project management tools and an organizational cultural framework that anchors the shared purpose, values, beliefs practices and commitments of all members.
Guiding Belief: Tension reveals potential for positive change and greater understanding
See Tension or conflict within a group as a dynamic edge to engage in order to find more understanding, perspective, and growth within the group.
Tension and challenges can be opportunities to clarify, to deepen relationships, to clear false beliefs or expectations, or to redefine something that is no longer serving individuals or the group’s needs.
Use protocols to effectively address tensions as they arise and find resolution and insight from conflicts rather than avoid or inflate conflict.
Ideally a tension will be engaged and worked with until a gift or insight has been revealed for all parties involved. However, if a genuine effort has been given and this is not feasible due to time constraints or other limitations, then a resolution where all parties feel clear, centered, ready and able to focus on the immediate needs of the vision will suffice until a time when communication may continue uninterrupted or until time allows for a different perspective to emerge.
~Content source VillageLab
