Conflict & Holding Environments

Tom Geraghty · Interpersonal Practice, Voice & Silence

Examines conflict as a feature rather than a bug of psychologically safe environments. Introduces holding environments — the relational containers that make productive disagreement possible — and argues that suppressing conflict in the name of comfort produces far more dangerous silence.

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