10 Conversational Hazards to Avoid During Conflict

These behaviors can totally derail productive discourse

Melody Stanford Martin
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 28, 2020

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Conflict between human beings is inevitable. Unfortunately, in our zeal to be right, and in exercising our right to scream, many of us destroy relationships, relinquish credibility, and become ineffective to the people we most want to influence.

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Melody Stanford Martin
Forge
Writer for

Melody Stanford Martin is a social ethicist, communications expert, and author of Brave Talk: Building Resilient Relationships in the Face of Conflict.