Our most recent open meeting was a discussion between interested plotholders on the topic of preventing and dealing with conflict, led by invited guest facilitator Verene Nicolas.

Several main ‘types’ of conflict were identified, based on different general sources of disagreement that might exist.

Thinking about these ‘types’ can help to generalise out from individual examples of specific disagreements and to look at the broader systematic reason why people might be in conflict.

Each type was discussed to help understand what the fundamental underlying issue might be, and strategies for either preventing or dealing with each one were shared.

We’ve written up the discussion into a short (one-and-a-half-page) report:

• if you’re a committee member, perhaps this could help you think about the way things are managed on your site
• if you’re a plotholder, maybe it could help you think about other ways to communicate with people around you, or it might give you suggestions you could take to your committee

We’re approaching the end of this year’s calendar of events, and after our upcoming AGM we’ll have next year’s committee in place. In due course, they’ll publish a calendar of meetings for next year.

To find out what those future meetings will be, check in on our calendar of events periodically, or subscribe to our mailing list and we’ll keep you in the loop!