This was a recent keynote presentation delivered for RACQ in Brisbane themed on "Moving from Conflict to Collaboration: Practices for Getting Unstuck". My talk takes a personal look into what it means to be stuck, and practices that promote both stuckness and flow.

1. Practices for Getting UnStuck

2. Serendipity.

4. Is ConflictInevitable?

5. “Show me any organization or situation where there is no conflict, and I will show you one where nobody cares.” Harrison Owen Originator of Open Space Technology Consultant and Author

7. Script Performance

8. Recipe Meal

9. What are you practicing?

10. Collaboration –verb 1. An interaction where all parties emerged changed…

11. Three Practices of Stuckness

12. Being too “outcomes” focussed

15. Thinking there’s ONE right answer…(And it’s 42!)

20. Othering (aka “Us and Them”)(or the “difficult person” myth)

23. GettingUnStuck

24. Why do things always get more Complex?

31. The Practice of Opening Space

32. “Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.” Peter Drucker (1909 – 2005) American Management Consultant, Author (Widely considered to be the father of modern management )

36. The Practice of Holding Space

37. “Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” William James (1842 – 1910) American Philosopher and Psychologist

42. Three Challenges

47. “The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.” Carl Gustav Jung (1875 – 1961) Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist

48. Andrew Rixon PhD