Loving conflict: The intimacy that builds collaboration across division | Anna Lecat | TEDxGraz

Growing up, we are told conflict is bad. Avoid it. Be nice to each other. However, avoiding conflict does not keep us together. It pulls us apart. Silence, resentment, lost connections. Every conversation you don't have is a connection you have already lost. My choice is different. I love conflict. Not violence, not war, not aggression. Rather, the conflict in hard conversations, the tensions, you know those moments that we all run away from. I used to run too until I didn't until I engaged in the conflict ...