Conflict Transformation Lesson
This lesson is comprised of readings, personal reflection activities and a video. It will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
2.5 Video: How to Manage Anxiety
You can learn how to manage your physiologic and emotional responses to conflict. In this video, Roy Johnson will describe how to manage your reactions and how you can move toward using a management strategy that will transform the conflict.
Video
Video summary:
Anxiety is not a feeling; it’s a physiologic state our body gets into when we’re triggered.
When we perceive a threat and allow ourselves to be swept up, neural processing shifts from the prefrontal executive functioning cortex to the amygdala and other emotion-driven regions, thus clouding our judgment.
Three steps to take when you find yourself in “flight-or-flight” mode:
Take a deep breath -- as you notice the trigger, force oxygen into your body by deep diaphragmatic breathing
Refuse the bait – say quietly to yourself, “That’s really good bait, and I’m not going to take it.”
Act out your strategy (more in next video).