3-Part CHA Training Course: A Better Way To Navigate Conflict: A Path to Greater Health, Freedom and Joy

In this very educational and empowering three part training course you will learn how to control conflict and turn it into a tool for self-discovery by understanding it, resolving it, and moving through it when resolution isn’t possible.

Following on from our May 26th CHA-VCC National Call with Myriam which was titled, ‘Conflicts and Health: Perspectives from a Mediator’, this three-part course will provide an opportunity to explore in greater depth the concepts, tools and real-life examples introduced during that presentation.

Drawing from her experience as a lawyer and mediator, as well as from significant conflicts in her own life, Myriam Bohémier will explore the nature of conflict and what makes it so difficult to experience and resolve. We will examine the role our beliefs, perceptions and frames of reference play in conflict, and how they influence the way we interpret the same facts very differently.

We will then look beneath the conflict itself. What emotions, needs and interests are being expressed? What lies beneath the positions people defend? Understanding what is really at stake can fundamentally change the way we approach both the conflict and the person in front of us.

This Canada Health Alliance course will explore different tools and approaches to conflict resolution and how they can help us take responsibility for our own experience, communicate differently and create the conditions for resolution.

Finally, we will address the conflicts that cannot be resolved. What can we do when changing the other person or reaching a mutual resolution is simply not possible? How can we move through a conflict without allowing it to determine our state of being? This final part will explore tools for letting go of what does not belong to us, taking responsibility for what does, and finding greater freedom even when the conflict itself remains unresolved.
Through personal stories and examples drawn from mediation practice, this course invites participants not only to better understand and resolve conflict, but also to discover what conflict can teach us about ourselves.

PRESENTERS BIO:

Myriam Bohémier has been a lawyer for 26 years and an accredited mediator for 11 years. She served as a Commissioner with the National Citizens Inquiry, examining the question of whether children are safe in Canada, and is a member of the legal team of the Allison Inquiry. She is also a speaker, author, and member of the Board of Directors of the Canada Health Alliance.

Myriam is also a karateka. In karate, we thank our opponent for making us better. Over the years, the conflicts she has faced in her own life have made her better, leading her to explore the art of communication: listening, naming what needs to be named, and taking responsibility for our own state of being. Taking this responsibility is essential to being free.

Her work as a mediator has profoundly transformed her. Beyond the words and positions expressed in a conflict, mediation is about connecting with the human being in front of us and discovering the needs they are expressing through the conflict, in order to help them find their own solution.

Dates: October 13th, 20th and 27th, 2026.
Time of each session: 5 to 6.30 pm PT / 8 – 9.30 pm ET
Regular train course price: $125.00 for all three weekly sessions
Discounted course cost: $100.00 for all three sessions for paid CHA members and members of VCC, NHPPA, Manitoba Stronger Together, CCCA, Réinfo Québec, Reclaiming Birth Conference delegates and la Main des Enfants.

To purchase your tickets please send your contact details to: info@canadahealthalliance.org with ‘Navigating Conflict training enrolment’ in the subject line. Fee payments can be e-transfered to accounting@canadahealthalliance.org.

Note: If there is a cost to this event, paid CHA members are entitled to a discount. If you would like to get your membership discount, please login or click here.