Applying Conflict Coaching to Handle Vietnamese Family’s Conflicts

Abstract

Conflict coaching is one-on-one conflict resolution process involving one conflict party and a coach that assists conflicting parties to improve their understanding of a conflict and cope with their dispute in the most effective way.1 This process has become more popular in developed countries to deal with workplace conflict and family disputes. There are some challenges in applying this process for those who come from high-context culture country like Vietnam due to the differences among financial condition, perception, communication styles, legal system, customs, religion and gender. This article presents different conflict coaching processes as well as the possibility and the importance of implementing conflict coaching in Vietnam by analyzing the values of conflict coaching process.