Alberta Fredricksen
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Conflict Guide and Spiritual Life Expert
Alberta Fredricksen Quick Facts
Alberta's great background as a human resource administrator, educator, coach, trainer, consultant, mediator and minister has given her many experiences working in both cooperative and adversarial circumstances representing and training diverse individuals and groups.
Alberta loves coaching and teaching! Her specialized training and life experiences have provided an amazing repertoire of choices, tools, strategies, formulas and stories. Her real life stories of successes and seeming failures add to the Tool Box she offers you for pre-paving and moving through the energies conflict provides. She can facilitate your understanding of just how natural conflict is and how it can be a creative force for change, empowerment and transcendence.
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Are You Tired of Arguing? There Are Better Ways to Manage Conflict!
“I'm tired of arguing” are four of the most defeating words in your relationships. And there really are better ways for effectively managing conflict! As a coach and human resource administrator, I've heard these words so many times and usually it says more about you than it does about others.
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“I Had No Choice” Is a Lame Excuse!
Understanding your choices is essential in managing conflict. And, yes, there is always more than one choice! You just have to decide what consequence you will live with. This helps you resolve your own inner conflict. And just as important is the strategy of providing choices for others when you are in conflict. The narrowing of choice is not motivating. It is the expansion of choice or the opportunity to decide that motivates an individual to go beyond feeling victimized. And in businesses or organizations, it allows an individual to go beyond minimal competence.
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Conflict Is The Gift That Just Keeps On Giving! You’re Kidding, Right?
Most of us grow up conditioned to believe that conflict is bad. That is a myth! And it’s a pretty destructive myth because it places all of us in a position of being bad in some way because we are in conflict within ourselves or we experience conflict with others. Truthfully, being in conflict is as easy as falling off a log! With a little shift in perception and some help in understanding the true nature of conflict, we can walk the log skillfully, with balance and reach our destination on the other side. Some say that conflict is not good or bad - it just is!
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Listening Can Resolve Conflict - 10 Benefits!
Conflict happens in relationships. And the tension it brings is opportunity knocking at the door. We actually learn more by listening than we do by talking! When we are experiencing contrast or conflict with others, we are usually trying our best to persuade them to our point of view. And that means we just keep talking - hoping the others will see the light of our perspective. What happens if you shift your strategy and start listening - really listening? There are many benefits for you if you will apply this one very important communication tool in resolving conflicts. 1.
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What is the Truth That You Bear Witness to Through Your Faith?
Are you a disciple of some faith? What is the Truth that you bear witness to through your faith? By definition, a disciple of Christ is always stepping up spiritually by bearing witness to Jesus the Christ. Being a disciple need not mean that you throw off all your earthly occupations or do away with all other endeavors in life.
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Being Your Brother’s Keeper means Stepping Up Spiritually!
Stepping Up Spiritually is a basic element of being on any Path of expanded consciousness. It is really for each of us to interpret what being my brother’s keeper means in our daily lives. Fortunately, it is one of those phrases that needs little in the way of basic explanation. It is the unexpected events in life that provide opportunity for us to truly put it to work. Tomorrow, a neighbor may fall down the steps and need physical assistance.
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Seeking Reconciliation – A Conflict Management Strategy!
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. (Matthew: 5:23-25) Managing conflict sometimes means admitting you are wrong or acknowledging that you have hurt or harmed some other part of life. This verse of Scripture simply and lovingly instructs us about what is most important. We may be seeking to get right with God – the Spirit of God that is somehow much higher than where we are.
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Five Mistakes to Avoid during Conflict
There are so many positive strategies and processes to use in managing conflict effectively. And sometimes it’s very important to know how to avoid the pitfalls. You will enhance your success in finding heart peace if you stay aware of the energies that are the indicators and outcomes of conflict. These energies begin with small contrasts that come from mismatched expectations among people. And there are some mistakes you can avoid making if you know about them before they come up. You can safely and effectively avoid these Five Mistakes during Conflict.
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Seven Tips for Managing Your Own History during Conflict
The biggest obstacle to effective conflict management may just be your own history! You and the others in your relationships all have a past when it comes to communicating, building relationships and managing conflicts. Your patterns of behavior are built on your perceptions of what is happening to you and how others are relating to you. And most of us have our own best interests in mind when we are negotiating our way through expectations that are not being met.
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Considering Cutbacks? Conflict Gives You Choices!
Economic times are bad! Finances are tight! I can’t afford to carry these people! Sound familiar? If you add your energy to this choir of voices in conflict, you are actually creating a reality that you don’t want! How DO you deal with conflict and financial realities without adding your “energy” to a downward spiral? When change happens – like tight money – loss – unexpected events – don’t you tend to contract, restrict, reserve, withdraw and withhold resources? Wait a minute! Take a deep breath and look around you.
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Is Karma Fair?
"Karma, or cosmic justice, puts everyone into conditions where they can either learn or atone for something." Helena Roerich Is Karma fair? In Biblical terms, karma is reaping what you sow. As it turns out, that word “karma” has karma of its own. It sometimes has bad press because some people only think of karma as something bad coming back to punish them. It is really just the principle of cause and effect but it is not merely limited to an act like slapping someone and getting slapped back. Karma is also the sum total of all we have done and all that has been done to us.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Alberta Fredricksen
Conflict is natural. It is neither positive nor negative. It just is. (Thomas Crum)
He who will not apply new remedies must expect old evils. (Francis Bacon)
Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. (Matt. 5:23-25)
Conflict is the gift that just keeps on giving! (Alberta)
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