Workshop

Workshop nº 03 - Tension in agriculture - shaping the future with solution-focused conflict management

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Tension in agriculture - shaping the future with solution-focused conflict management

Where people work together and different interests and needs collide, tensions and conflicts can arise. The system of a family farm is subject to additional challenges. Family farms are not only confronted with business management and legal challenges, in many cases there are emotional and social components that shape the working and living process. Due to this close connection between the workplace and private life, identification with the farm is usually extremely high, and family and farm cohesion are inseparable. This means that this system needs a special form of conflict management. Family and business issues flow into each other, escalations usually arise from these overlaps.
Impulses on what this means and how to deal with it in dialogue and conflict management will be discussed and developed in this workshop.

Workshop Objectives: a) To recognise challenging framework conditions/circumstances in family farms; b) To recognise the importance of role clarification/role clarity in daily interaction for conflict resolution; c) To get to know mediative elements in conducting talks and conflict management;

Procedure and methodology: Short theory inputs as well as practice and reflection units in individual and group settings.

Organised by the respective institution (HAUP, LLH). Depending on the nationality of the participants, consecutive translation into English or Spanish will be provided. Duration of the workshop: approx. 2.5 hours. Maximum number of participants: 30