What’s in a [podcast] name?
In October, 2018, I started to learn how to host and produce a podcast, through an online Seth Godin course, The Podcast Fellowship. In a supportive, fascinating, and global community of learners (TPF2, the second cohort of TPF), I developed technical skills and distilled what I wanted to do with the podcast -- and why. The “why” started with a frustration about the message I had heard too often in my professional work through Dovetail Resolutions, LLC: that conflict was always negative and hopeless. I disagree on both counts. What I wanted to do -- and still want to do -- is to provide an antidote to that bleak mindset.
So, what’s in a name? “Crafting” suggests some extra degree of care in the process or the development of a skill. And it is often a process to handle conflict well, more than an event.
“Solutions”, plural, because there can be more than one way forward. Not necessarily conflict “resolution”, though that is a big part of my work. Something to solve: it can help to think of conflict as a puzzle, with pieces that can fit together (jigsaw) or clues and intersecting ideas that can help you find the way forward (crossword).
“Conflict” is not necessarily bad – though we tend to speak in shorthand as if it always is negative. Some degree of conflict is inevitable and necessary, but it doesn’t need to be destructive. The focus of this podcast is keeping conflict positive when possible and handling negative conflict in a way that prevents damage/limits damage/repairs damage to relationships that matter. Join me! And let me know if you have ideas for topics to cover or guests to invite.
