Research-informed tools for difficult conversations.
Common Ethos
HI THERE. WELCOME TO COMMON ETHOS.
Unsure how to manage conflict at home or work? Common Ethos can help with that.
At Common Ethos, Dr. Amy Jo Ellefson coaches individuals and teams in conflict engagement skills that improve interpersonal and group outcomes.
Personalized sessions for individuals and organizations.
Conflict engagement for education professionals
Common Ethos helps educators, administrators, and student-facing professionals navigate difficult conversations with clarity, care, and confidence. Workshops and coaching sessions focus on practical conflict communication tools for classrooms, departments, advising relationships, leadership teams, and campus communities.
Conflict engagement for corporate professionals
Common Ethos helps workplace teams and leaders build the communication skills needed to address tension, feedback, disagreement, and change more productively. Sessions are designed to support healthier team dynamics, clearer expectations, and more constructive conversations across roles and responsibilities.
Common Ethos provides communication education, facilitation, and training. Services are not legal advice, therapy, HR investigation, or formal mediation unless separately agreed in writing.
Conflict engagement for non-profit professionals or volunteers
Mission-driven work often brings passionate people together around complex goals, limited resources, and high-stakes relationships. Common Ethos helps non-profit professionals and volunteers strengthen communication, reduce avoidance, and engage disagreement in ways that support both people and purpose.
Conflict engagement for individuals
Common Ethos supports individuals who want to better understand their conflict patterns and communicate more effectively in difficult moments. Individual coaching focuses on reflection, preparation, and practical strategies for approaching challenging conversations at home, work, and in community life.
OUR MISSION
Common Ethos shares research-based conflict communication tools to help individuals and teams reach their goals.
Dr. Amy Ellefson helps organizations build practical, humane, and research-informed approaches to conflict engagement. Drawing on expertise in communication studies, mediation, negotiation, gender conflict, and strategic communication, she designs workshops and facilitated learning experiences that help teams move beyond avoidance and toward clearer, more productive conversations.
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CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT WITH COMMON ETHOS