@andrevlok.bsky.social
Conflict and employment dispute specialist, negotiator, mediator, arbitrator, author Email : andre@conflict1.co.za Blog : http://conflict-conversations.co.za
Heading home
11.10.2025 05:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Saving PortElizabeth...some straight talk in my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
10.10.2025 06:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Early morning beach walk, with summer slowly settling in
09.10.2025 05:08 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Be careful ☕️
08.10.2025 04:27 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An excerpt from Chapter 1 from my latest book, Skylines: the modern urban conflict manual 📚 ☕
www.conflict-conversations.co.za/conversation...
An excellent route, Mark. Unique beauty
03.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pics from my recent roadtrip through the Eastern and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Very rural, with a rough, awe-inspiring beauty in places. Also, a cool little bookshop and some treasures
03.10.2025 08:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Outdated workplace conflict and HR systems, and the harm it does. My weekly column in today's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
03.10.2025 07:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In my weekly column in today's Herald newspaper....keeping an eye on polarization ☕️📰
26.09.2025 04:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A surprising, but ultimately inspiring contribution to my theoretical and consulting work...storytelling as conflict tool. My 2024 article in Business Talk
25.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My series on modern Chinese conflict management and what we should be learning from it continues in the October edition of Business Talk
25.09.2025 12:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gaslighting...the early years
25.09.2025 08:28 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Still icy, but edging towards summer
23.09.2025 05:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In my weekly column in this Friday's Herald newspaper we look at the dangers of polarization, and how we can limit it in our lives 📰☕️
22.09.2025 07:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time to start working on the next one 📚😉
20.09.2025 04:33 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Midday fresh air break 🐕🐕
19.09.2025 12:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What do we learn from assassinations like that of Charlie Kirk, and our own long list of victims of political violence? My weekly column in today's Herald newspaper takes a look at some of the lessons, and solutions, that are available 📰☕️
19.09.2025 07:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Icy early morning beach walk. A great start to the day
17.09.2025 05:50 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After a few months break from writing books, I am ready to return to that part of my work. And what an idea I have for the new book...
10.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've never been great at conflict resolution. Not without a blade and several roles of plastic wrap.
Dexter
Priorities 😉
08.09.2025 06:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time and space for deep, slow thinking, The value of solitude. The perfect start to a busy week
08.09.2025 05:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Presenting a two day conflict workshop for the education environment...in this beautiful environment
07.09.2025 09:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Changing our relationship with conflict...my article in this morning's Herald newspaper 📰☕️
05.09.2025 05:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another app reminds me of these debates and battles in 2021. Some of it still feels surreal
03.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Much of our current political crisis management seeks to provide stop-gap solutions before important preliminary conflict work has been achieved. This is trying to build our house on shifting sands.
My recent Business Talk article on conflict in a lawless environment 📰☕️
Conflict resolution can therefore be regarded as a hedge against social entropy, and a means for translating the chaos of conflict into personal, relational and social evolution.
Kenneth Cloke
Spring has arrived. Early morning beach walk
02.09.2025 15:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Working on a Saturday. The hard life 😉
30.08.2025 08:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My weekly column in today's Herald newspaper continues the series on a few general conflict techniques. This week we take a brief look at workplace insubordination ☕️📰
29.08.2025 11:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
