Short course: Feminist approaches to workplace conflict

What you can expect:

This course was developed following consultations with 129 people working in a diversity of sectors from around the world. In 2024 we piloted this course and adapted it based on our learnings. We ran it again in 2025 and are regularly improving it based upon participant feedback. The programme incudes:

• Four weekly live online sessions (2.5 hours each; a total of 10 hours contact time.) Please note that we are running two groups this year. You can choose between live sessions on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Our Tuesday group runs: 18:30 Delhi; 14:00 London; 9am New York. Our Wednesday group runs: 10am London; 14:30 Delhi; 16:00 Bangkok

• Discussion, learning and exploration of topics like conflict mapping and analysis, power, trauma-informed approaches, generative conflict, and conflict transformation

• Feminist approaches to learning and development that centre peer learning and questioning what we think we ‘know’

• A unique opportunity to build a network of practitioners 

• Further reading, individual and team activities to take away, as well as examples of interesting practice.

We strongly encourage participants to engage in the live sessions in order to get the most from the programme. All webinars will be recorded and available for a short time following the end of the course. 

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the programme you will:

1.Understand the key concepts and principles behind feminist approaches to conflict at the workplace.  

2. Be able to critically analyse how power operates and affects conflict in your organisation or community and what this might mean for how you could address it

3. Have a greater understanding of your own relationship to conflict, and be able to identify new ways to respond 

4. Explore the importance of treating conflict generatively at the workplace, and understand how you can begin to apply feminist and generative lenses to your approach to workplace conflict

5. Have started to explore and build a radical approach to addressing conflict, alongside an understanding of how to foster and support cultures of treating conflict generatively in your organisation 

6. Have explored examples of how feminist approaches to conflict can be put into practice in our organisations and have developed a plan of action to apply what you have learned

7. Create a network of peers with whom you will have an opportunity to continue to offer mutual support and learning beyond the course.

Pricing

The four-week course costs £350. (This includes additional exercises, readings and resources in a comprehensive course Reflection Journal, that you can use during and after the course has ended.) We are also offering five pay-what-you can/fully sponsored places in each group. Please visit here for application details.

A final note…

This programme is intended to get you to build organizational capacity to address conflict through feminist approaches. It is not tailored to make participants mediators, negotiators, or arbitrators. This programme will not provide quick fixes or tidy solutions, either. We recognize that feminist approaches are for the long-haul and call on us to invest time, effort, and energy in building approaches informed by feminist principles that can address conflict meaningfully.