Short course: Feminist approaches to workplace conflict
Oppressive forces are in overdrive.
International rules are consistently undermined.
Value systems rooted in care and reciprocity are being eroded.
Those of us who care about social justice face deep, ever-evolving challenges. We cannot afford to waste our time and energy in workplace conflicts that result in more harm or further polarisation. Join our online, part-time course (2.5 hours per week) starting October 2025 that aims to increase your knowledge and ability to address workplace conflict using feminist principles.
Waiting list
Bookings for our October 2025 programme are now closed. If you would like to join our waiting list, please complete this form - we will contact you if a place becomes available, and send you an email when our next programme bookings open. Thank you!
Who is the course for?
The course is designed for people of diverse genders, from any sector, who have a desire to explore feminist approaches to addressing conflict:
Perhaps you work in a Human Resources department and you’ve noticed the existing approaches you use aren’t working.
You might be a manager or leader who has to handle workplace conflicts on a regular basis.
Maybe you are the founder of an organisation or a freelancer who wants to support organisations to build cultures that welcome generative approaches to conflict.
If you care about feminism and you’re keen to change the way conflict is addressed in the workplace, this short course is for you!
What you can expect:
This course was developed following consultations with 129 people working in a diversity of sectors from around the world. In November 2024 we piloted this course and adapted it based on our learnings. The programme incudes:
Four weekly live online sessions every Tuesday (2.5 hours each) beginning 7 October. (A total of 10 hours contact time.) Sessions will begin at 14:30 Delhi; 12:00 Nairobi; 10am London; 16:00 Bangkok (see below for full schedule, which includes a UK time change in Week 4)
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, transformative justice, and generative lenses to your approach to workplace conflict
5. Have started to explore and build a radical approach to 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 £325. We are offering five pay-what-you can/fully sponsored places in our October 2025 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.
Course dates
The schedule for our October 2025 course is below. Please note that sessions 1 and 2 require a light amount of pre-work (approx. 30 mins).
Please note that each live session runs for 2.5 hours. There will be optional reflective activities you can do in between each session or at the end of the course. We will ask you to do some light reading/reviewing some course content in advance of Sessions 1 and 2.
Session 1: Understanding conflict from a feminist perspective
7 October: 14:30 Delhi/12:00 Nairobi/10:00 London/16:00 Bangkok
Session 2: Power dynamics and conflict
14 October: 14:30 Delhi/12:00 Nairobi/10:00 London/16:00 Bangkok
Session 3: Implementing feminist approaches to conflict and dealing with resistance
21 October: 14:30 Delhi/12:00 Nairobi/10:00 London/16:00 Bangkok
Session 4: Exploring trauma-informed approaches to workplace conflict; action planning
28 October: 14:30 Delhi/12:00 Nairobi/9:00 London/16:00 Bangkok.