Conflict Resilience – Negotiate Without Giving Up or Giving In
Date: Sep 10, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $179.00
Non-Member Price: $224.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Dispute Resolution
Earn up to 3.3 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
- Robert C. Bordone, JD
- Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School
Founder and Principal, The Cambridge Negotiation Institute
Moderator
Presenters
- Joel Salinas, MD, MBA
- Clinical Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Founder and Chief Medical Officer, Isaac Health
Two former Harvard faculty—one an internationally-recognized negotiator and founder of Harvard Law School’s Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, the other a leading behavioral neurologist and cutting-edge scientist from Harvard Med—join forces to introduce conflict resilience: the radical act of sitting in and growing from conflict to break the bad habits that sabotage our politics, workplaces, relationships and cases.
Conflict is getting the better of us. From our homes and community centers to C-Suites and Congress, disagreements are happening everywhere, with increasing frequency and are being treated like zero-sum games that allow little margin for error and even less room for productive conversations. This puts a tremendous and untenable strain on our most important relationships and institutions and causes difficulty when trying to settle cases.
Unable or unwilling to negotiate conflict with skill, we ignore it or avoid it for as long as possible; when we are forced to face it, we escalate everyday disagreements and temporary flare-ups as if they’re life-and-death. Neither approach addresses underlying issues, promotes stronger relationships, or yields satisfying results.
But there is a solution: a combined skill set and mindset that Bob Bordone calls “conflict resilience” - the ability to not only sit with and grow from disagreement, but to find new ways to communicate with authority and confidence without others feeling left unheard. In this powerful, hopeful presentation based on the best-selling book, Bordone and his co-author Dr. Joel Salinas combine the inner mechanics of conflict—literally what’s going on in our bodies and our brains during moments of distress—to produce a groundbreaking guide for how to navigate it, including:
- How to get out of your own way as a communicator
- Understanding the importance of timing
- How to embrace disagreement as an opportunity
- Learning how to anticipate and manage defensiveness
In this unique seminar, Bordone (who is a member of the New Jersey Bar) and Salinas will provide a keynote address and answer questions from the audience. Then, they will be joined by a panel of prominent NJSBA members who will further connect the themes they discuss to the practice of law, settlement, and dealing with difficult counterparties. The seminar will help you find resilience and calm, and help you be a better lawyer.
“Conflict Resilience: Negotiating Disagreement Without Giving Up or Giving In (HarperBusiness 2025),” Bordone and Salinas’ best-selling book, will be included.
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