Saturday - December 5, 2026 | 9:00 - 10:30 AM (HKT)
Building Conflict Resilience for Difficult Conversations
In this session, Bob will share what is going on in our brain when we are faced with conflict and how we can re-train our brains to be more conflict resilient in the face of disagreement. In order to be effective teachers and administrators, we need to reframe our orientation toward conflict and then retrain our brains to sit with the discomfort of disagreement. In this session, Bob will offer some strategies for how to use disagreement and difficult conversations as a way to build stronger, more authentic relationships with colleagues, students, parents, and colleagues. There will be ample time for Q&A as well.
Format: Zoom Meeting (Zoom link will be sent 2 days before the event)
Fee: Free for EARCOS Members / $100 for Non-Members
About Bob Bordone:
Robert C. Bordone (Bob) is an internationally-recognized expert, author, speaker, and teacher in negotiation, conflict resolution, mediation, and facilitation, recently selected as one of the Top 30 Negotiation Professionals by Top Global Gurus. The USA Today best selling author of Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In (HarperCollins 2025), Bob has been teaching in various capacities at Harvard University for thirty years. He served as the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School for 21 years and was the Director and Founder of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. He later was named a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School and continues to teach in Harvard’s executive education programs through Harvard’s Professional and Executive Development & Division of Continuing Education.
In 2019, Bob founded the Cambridge Negotiation Institute, a full-time consulting, advisory, speaking, and training practice. In addition, he currently serves as the Director of the Consensus Building Institute Professional Development Academy and as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Bob has has also been a Visiting Clinical Professor of Conflict Transformation at Boston University’s School of Theology. In addition, Bob was selected to be a Fellow at Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life for the 2026-27 academic year.