How to kill connection (and how to bring it back to life).

Our habitual and default ways of responding to one another often lead to feelings of rejection and hurt, despite our best intentions. But there are…

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

Adulting, together

The key to holding and hosting difficult conversations is to trust that everyone in the room has the ability to put on their grown up pants.

Sep 23 • 

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Dealing with co-founder fallouts

A few lessons from a year of mediating between people who once had a shared passion but ended up with shared resentment and frustration.

Sep 16 • 

Max St John

Conflict is a signal.

Don't tune it out.

Sep 12 • 

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February 2025

This is not about blacksmithing: Junko Mori

Building metal microworlds that are shaped by process not design, Junko's approach to blacksmithing is informed by her fascination with nature, the…

Feb 24 • 

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January 2025

How do you fight well? Five principles for having conversations that matter.

Conflict is no one's favourite pastime but it's an inevitable part of life. So how do you lean into it in a way that breaks cycles, builds understanding…

Jan 30 • 

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This is not about blacksmithing: Heather McLarty

Working out of a teepee in LA, artist-blacksmith-teacher Heather believes that the craft is about much more than just making - it connects us to the…

Jan 23 • 

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Fighting, feeling and forging in 2025: This year's course schedule

If you want to learn to navigate conflict, develop greater emotional literacy or become a better coach, here are some ways to learn with me in the year…

Jan 21 • 

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December 2024

Who are you trying to change?

If we want to make the world a kinder place, then it might not be about the language or models that we use, it might be all about us.

Dec 3, 2024 • 

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September 2024

Move with the pain.

Skateboarding at 45 and the emotional traps that we lay for ourselves in conflict.

Sep 25, 2024 • 

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Brief news: The last courses for 2024.

Heading towards the end of a busy year, two final offerings from me to bring things to a natural close.

Sep 20, 2024 • 

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The broken sign: conflict as misdirection.

What an angry dog walk taught me about the roots of conflict and the way through locked gates.

Sep 12, 2024 • 

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