![The Balancing Act: Skills for a Thriving Relationship at Work or at Home]()
by Elizabeth | 26 Aug, 2025
As a social worker, I have been working with relationship skills and conflicts in communities, organisations and with individuals for over 40 years. Since 2010, I have been working with mediating workplace conflicts, when I started undertaking dispute resolution with...
![When Relationships Shape the Future of Your Business]()
by Elizabeth | 22 Aug, 2025
“Elizabeth consulted with all family members confidentially, assessing and guiding us in ways that empowered individuals to lead relationship repairs and refocus our family on our shared business vision. She’s since provided invaluable coaching to support...
![The First 3 Minutes of Difficult Conversations Predict the Outcome]()
by Elizabeth | 22 May, 2024
The likelihood of a difficult conversation ending in an escalating argument, or finding a reasonable resolution and compromise, all depends on how you start. When there’s potential for tension and heightened emotions, research shows what you do in the first 3...
![Keeping Your Cool this Christmas!]()
by Elizabeth | 16 Dec, 2023
The pressures at the end of the year can be overwhelming and can lead to increased stress, heightened emotions and lots of potential for relationship conflicts over the festive period. And then there’s that ONE DAY where you feel you need to get everything right. Or...
![First Principles of Conflict Confidence©: Conflict is a skill, Not an Emotion]()
by Elizabeth | 10 Apr, 2022
Many years ago, sadly, I was very adept at being caught up in unpleasant conflicts – and it was a mystery to me how I got there! After one particularly stupid experience I decided this must end. And so, my passion was ignited for untangling what really works to...
![You Mainly Feel the Way You Think]()
by Elizabeth | 28 Feb, 2022
“Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or lessthan a certain kind – a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative – kind of thought.”Albert Ellis. Albert Ellis was an American psychologist and academic who in the 1960s proposed there are twelve [12] irrational...
![Check Your Conflict Assumptions]()
by Elizabeth | 24 Jan, 2022
Each January I quietly sit awhile and set my relationships intentions for the year ahead, in both my professional and personal life. What are the challenges I want to explore to deepen my understanding, to be more flexible and less reactive, and how could I practice a...
![Seriously Social Podcast Interview with Simone Douglas, November 2020]()
by Elizabeth | 26 Apr, 2021
https://socialmediaaok.com.au/podcast/episode-16-elizabeth-williamson/...
