In $3-5$ sentences, briefly write about a time when you experienced a personal conflict to understand your personal behaviors and current communication skills. From your perspective, define what was the conflict, who was involved, when and where the conflict occurred, and describe how it was resolved or left unresolved.

The conflict can be a minor disagreement, such as waiting in line at a store when someone steps ahead of you, disagreeing with a coworker about your arrival or departure time for your shift, asking a restaurant about an inaccurate order charge, and similar.

Once you have written your conflict, write three sentences on each of the following:

$1.$ What is your immediate stress response to conflict? Consider tension, avoidance, passivity, assertion, aggression...

$2.$ What is your immediate communication response? Consider making the peace, sticking to your views, listening to the disputant...

$3.$ What would you like to have happen once a conflict has occurred? Consider skills you would like to have and how you envision an ideal conflict conversation evolving, such as intervention from others, ability to self$-$lead, sense of emotional release when the talk is over...

$4.$ How do personalities, environments, and cultural differences affect communication? Do you feel like any of this played into your conflict or impacted it in anyway?