We invite people who are experiencing or anticipating conflict to enter into a dialogue with us, themselves and with others. 

Specifically, we offer:

• Skills training designed to respond to the relational difficulties your organisation is facing

• Relational Mediation and facilitated conversations in workplaces and communities, and between organisations.

• Conflict Focused Coaching including preparation for difficult conversations you need to have.

• Coaching to improve employee wellbeing and navigate change

• Group coaching and facilitation in response to change (personnel, new projects or roles), conflict and difficult relationships

• Open workshops in good communication and Navigating Conflict (before the Grit hits the fan)

• We are experienced working in person, over zoom or via telephone.

We can help with:

• Exploring differences and finding meaningful consensus around goals and values

• Team building and better relationships

• Employee retention and satisfaction

• Organisational and structural changes

• Staffing changes

• Policy changes

We are experienced in working with issue such as:

• Difficult dynamics

• Relationship transitions

• Difficult communication

• Bullying

• Discrimination

• Relationship breakdown

• Lifestyle and cultural differences

This is Grit is a partnership between two experienced Conflict Resolution Practitioners (Hannah Pepper and Ishshah Fleming) which brings together our distinct approaches and places our values at the centre of our practice.

We share a willingness and enthusiasm to get down into the grit of conflict and, within that place of difficulty and tension, know that we can find a grain of possibility that things can be different. 

Whether working with one, two, or many people, we encourage them to bring their conflict into the foreground, and together we consider it from all angles, engage our curiosity about what is happening and ask:

– What can change?

– How can things be better?

Well, apart from having true grit…our starting point is knowing what we are good at, interested in and unafraid of. It takes: skill, patience, empathy, perseverance and drive to approach conflict and bring about positive change.

We trained and began working in community and neighbourhood conflict resolution with Bristol Mediation in 2014. Within this team we were able to develop and explore our own approaches when working with people experiencing conflict. We’ve worked with individuals, families, colleagues and organisations across the city: facilitating dialogue, resolving conflict, improving relationships and helping others gain a better understanding of conflict and how we can approach it. We learnt and built upon the benefits of co-working in our conflict resolution practice. We stand by this model because we have seen – quite simply – that two brains are better than one when working with the complexities of conflict.

We are committed to making these approaches a service that is within reach for individuals and organisations of all types and size.

• If you are interested in finding out more about how we can help you can email info@thisisgrit.co.uk or call 07714 237107.

• We are based in Bristol, UK.  We work in-person and remotely.

Some of our experience over the past 10 years includes

• Skills training for teams and individuals regularly facing conflict -  "Getting Better Outcomes from Difficult Conversations", "Holding Better Meetings", "Having Better Conversations with Colleagues"

• Embodied exploration of organisational values

• Specialised coaching with groups or individuals who are experiencing conflict

• Mediation in communities and the workplace

• Facilitating a difficult conversation around a controversial topic amongst a large membership organisation

• Conflict focused coaching with adults and young people who are experiencing hate crimes or discrimination

• Training volunteers to be community mediators

• Training mediatiors in conflict-focussed coaching and other conflict resolution practices

• Regular and ad hoc supervision for workplace and community mediators (individual and group sessions)

• Support and consultation to conflict practitioners working via remote technologies

• Working with young people and their parents who are experiencing conflict in their relationships where possible and appropriate enabling the young person to remain living at home

• Supported letter writing

• Working with pupils in schools to offer conflict focused coaching and mediation