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Conflicts: Upholding Opposites in Creative Tension

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The third chapter explores strategies for twisting harmful tendencies and sustaining awareness for transforming conflicts, with a focus on intra and interpersonal levels. It discusses elicitive conflict transformation as an approach that contributes to uphold opposites in tension and engage paradoxes in freedom, catalyzing knowledge and generating new alternatives. Drawing from peace studies, humanistic psychology, and body-mind practices, the chapter investigates elicitive methods. It discusses their key transformative aspects as the cultivation of awareness, the integration of experiences as part of a transforming self, the emphasis on a discipline that nurtures body and mind and serves community, and acknowledgment of transrational experiences.

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Ditzel Facci, P. (2020). Conflicts: Upholding Opposites in Creative Tension. In: Dancing Conflicts, Unfolding Peaces. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48838-3_3

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