I'm Julia Menard, a Professional Certified Coach, a Mediator and Trainer specializing in Conflict Transformation within organizations - helping leaders and other professionals since 1998.

This website is for anyone working in a professional setting facing the challenges that conflicts present. 

Here you will find information from my conflict coaching practice and years as a mediator to help you create more peaceful relationships within your workplace and learn to engage conflict more purposefully and productively.

I look at conflict as an opportunity to learn more about ourselves and our situation - to transform ourselves in two areas of growth: personal empowerment and recognition.  I am not saying conflict is easy - most people loathe conflict – hey, I do too! 

The thing is – conflict exists and although we cannot change how someone else might behave, we can choose how we look at conflict. 

If we see it as destructive, crippling or embarrassing, we'll want it to go away. 

If we see it as something which just might give us a wider perspective, new information or more wisdom, we may still not want conflict in our lives, but we might see it as normal.  As normal as a thunder storm, ice freezes or floods.  Not things we would wish on ourselves, but serving a purpose, often larger than ourselves.

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence." 

... Dorothy Thompson