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What’s in a Wookiee? Inside Our Conflict Styles
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What’s in a Wookiee? Inside Our Conflict Styles

A conflict arises. Do you avoid it? Try to make everyone feel better? Strive to win? We all default to a particular approach in conflict, but we can also choose more strategically and intentionally how to respond. If Chewbacca can do it, and even Vader, so can we.

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From Rogue One To Andor: What Motivates Us To Join The Fight?
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From Rogue One To Andor: What Motivates Us To Join The Fight?

What are our motivations for engaging in conflict? What drivers won’t let us sit this one out, or just not look up and se the Imperial flag waving across the galaxy? Thoughts after seeing Rogue One, and in anticipation of Andor, for all of us who haven’t been in the fight since we were six years old and find ourselves making decisions about whether to engage in conflict or not.

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Kenobi Eps. 4-5: Rest In Power, Tala
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Kenobi Eps. 4-5: Rest In Power, Tala

Rose Tico suggested you need to choose between two ways to prevail: “That's how we're gonna win. Not by fighting what we hate. But saving what we love.”

“Hold my spotchka,” said Tala Durith, and with a flick of her thumb, did both.

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Kenobi Ep. 3: Emotions from the Dark Side
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Kenobi Ep. 3: Emotions from the Dark Side

In conflict we often need to deal with extreme, raw, emotion. There’s no escaping that. If we work well with our emotions, even the dark ones, we will succeed. Obi-Wan Kenobi, confronting and then escaping from a revenge-driven Darth Vader, must learn this lesson quickly.

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