Title: ELCA Conflict Resolution Skills Workshop ELCA NEWS SERVICE July 11, 1996 HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH CONFLICT? 96-WO-05-JF MINNEAPOLIS (ELCA) -- Do you deal with conflict by forcing, avoiding, accomodating, compromising or collaborating? About 30 Lutheran women completed surveys to assess their own styles of responding to conflict during a workshop here July 9-10. The Conflict Resolution Skills Workshop preceded the Third Triennial Convention of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, July 11-14, sharing the theme "Proclaim God's Peace." Bob Williamson and Joan Troyer of the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center, Lombard, Ill.,led the women through discussion, role play and other exercises to reflect on their own experiences of conflict. They practiced peaceful solutions to conflict at the interpersonal and congregational levels. Williamson presented his experiences of conflict resolution skills training in the former Yugoslavia. For the past several years, the Lombard Mennonite Peace Center has conducted training at churches in Serbia to teach members skills for dealing with conflict. For information contact: Ann Hafften, Dir., ELCA News Service, (312) 380-2958; Frank Imhoff, Assoc. Dir., (312) 380-2955; Lia Christiansen, Asst. Dir.,(312) 380-2956