Chapter 2.8. Retaliatory Cycle: Introducing the Elements of Conflict

Daniel Dana

Goals

  • To identify the five sequential elements that are present in every interpersonal conflict.

  • To understand how conflict escalates (spirals up) and how it causes relationships to wither (spiral down.)

  • To illustrate that conflict is always a reciprocal process.

Group Size

Eight to twenty.

Time Required

Forty minutes.

Copyright © 2000 by Daniel Dana.

Materials

  • One overhead transparency of the Retaliatory Cycle Model.

  • One copy of the Retaliatory Cycle Handout for each participant.

  • Overhead projector and screen.

Physical Setting

Any comfortable setting with a writing surface for participants.

Process

  1. Introduce the activity by stating the objectives, pointing out that the retaliatory ...

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