Megan Hunter, MBA, is the co-founder and CEO of the High Conflict Institute. She developed the concept of the Institute after 13 years in policy, legislation, and judicial training with the Arizona Supreme Court and five years with the Dawes County Attorney’s Office in Nebraska. She is founder and publisher of Unhooked Books, a U.S.-based media company. She has served as President of the Arizona Chapter of the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts, the Arizona Family Support Council and Nebraska Child Support Enforcement Association. She served five years on the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiner, and currently serves on the board of Stepfamily Magazine.
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We dive into summer insights on high conflict behavior, managing disruptions in group settings, and more. Explore key learnings on understanding vulnerability in high conflict situations and how to effectively set boundaries in conflict-ridden interactions.
Bill and Megan discuss the tricky topic of walking away from a high conflict person in your life in relation to family, friend and other relationships.
While apologies resolve many disputes between reasonable people, they are a much different matter with HCPs. However, don’t be surprised that high conflict people frequently will demand an apology. Bill and Megan discuss this apology quicksand – how we get there, how to avoid it, and what to do if someone’s demanding an apology from you.
You know the type – the persistent complainer who insists that everyone follow HOA regulations to the letter of the law, reporting everything to management and fully expecting them to be punished. Bill and Megan discuss whether this personality type may be high conflict or have Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, and what to do about it.
While we wait to hear what the court decides regarding new charges of child abuse against the father, we return to the episode about the parental custody case of Ty and Brynlee Larson in which Megan and Bill discuss its ins and outs.
While on hiatus, we’re re-releasing some of our past episodes. This week, we’re finishing to our 2-part conversation with Dr. Amy J.L. Baker about high conflict divorce.
While on hiatus, we’re re-releasing some of our past episodes. To start, we’re returning to our 2-part conversation with Dr. Amy J.L. Baker about high conflict divorce.
In some high conflict cases, we may have reached the end of our rope and resort to what we see as our only option: threatening to expose the high conflict person’s bad behavior to others. Will this work or will it backfire? In today’s episode, Megan and Bill discuss this delicate and challenging topic.
Megan and Bill talk about what it means to ‘win’ in high conflict. Do you need to reach an expected outcome to have success? What if you’re tempted to keep going? When do you know if you’ve won? And how do you choose your battles?
Bill and Megan discuss the difficult topic of narcissists who endanger America’s national security, impacting countries globally. Why are these narcissists hard to spot? How can you know in advance? Tune in!!