Miriam Fugfugosh, Center for Creative Leadership, Senior Faculty
Miriam is a Facilitator for several WomenLift Heath leadership journeys in the African region. She is a content designer and facilitator, she focuses on topics of leadership, inclusion, self-awareness building, team effectiveness and dialogue. She has founded and contributes to various programmes in women’s leadership enhancement internationally. For over 25 years, Miriam has contributed to learning opportunities for professionals in the public and private sector. She has worked with clients in the fields of peace enhancement, governance, global health systems, community resilience and human rights with individuals associated with national ministries, international organizations, foundations, NGOs, civil society and international corporations. Miriam works in multicultural, multinational, and multilingual environments across four continents with individuals of varying educational and professional backgrounds, and in various positions of hierarchies. A proud mother of two young men, Miriam was raised in Djibouti, is Somali-American and Swiss. She is fluent in English and French, and proficient in Spanish.
Find her on LinkedIn and X (Twitter)
Conflict Dynamics: Building Better Relationships
PowerUp Workshop Series
The PowerUp Workshops series are free and open to mid-career women working in public health in all the regions we work. The workshops are hosted virtually, focus on developing leadership skills, and fostering meaningful connections between women leaders in health within a regional context. The topics rotate with each workshop. We encourage women leaders in public health in each region to join us, and use these workshops as an opportunity to learn, engage with other women leaders, and build community.
Conflict Dynamics: Building Better Relationships
October 17th, 2025 @3-5pm WAT
WomenLift Health in partnership with WILAN is hosting an interactive virtual workshop to provide mid-career women working in public health in Nigeria with the information and tools to move towards a more productive and sustainable way of managing the boundaries between their work and personal lives.
Conflict is inevitable, unavoidable, complex, and can be mentally, emotionally and physically draining, and difficult to navigate. Conflict can also negatively impact personal progress and goals, team dynamics, and workplace culture. Research shows that women tend to avoid disagreement, corresponding to socially constructed norms of femininity.
Conflict can also serve a purpose. It can generate new solutions, build better relationships, and increase job satisfaction. It is key to innovation and can be a critical component of risk mitigation. Conflict follows a predictable pathway and will diverge to become either constructive or destructive. The question for this workshop is: How do we navigate the path of conflict so that it is constructive, and we can walk away feeling positive, relaxed, and even motivated?
In this session, for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike, we will explore the Conflict Dynamics Model by unpacking the behaviors and actions that influence interpersonal conflict. Attendees will reflect on and map out a recent work disagreement by focusing on the active, passive, constructive and destructive response pathways. We will understand how to identify our own “hot buttons” and contributions to either escalating or de-escalating conflict.
PowerUp Objectives:
This session will unpack the behaviors and actions that influence interpersonal conflict at the workplace. You will:
- Examine how your approach to conflict affects your health, and the health of your relationships at work and at home
- Explore how you can shift to a more positive, constructive response in conflict situations
Registration Details
Please note that to enroll in the session, you should complete all sections of the registration form.
You are eligible for the workshop if you meet the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman
- Has 10-25 years of work experience and/or identifies as someone in mid-career in their institutions*
- Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national or regional level in Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)
This virtual workshop will be conducted in the English language and is free of cost.
WomenLift Health PowerUp Workshops are interactive. By signing up, you agree to participate in the full session, which includes plenary discussions and breakout group activities.
Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, as spots are limited.
*Although women at all career stages are welcome to register, we believe participants who are at the mid-career stage will benefit most, as the content of the workshop has been designed with mid-career women professionals in mind (10–25 years of experience working in the public health sector). If the number of registrants exceeds our capacity, women who are within the preferred experience range will be given priority.
Registrants should await an email confirming their spot in the workshop. Please check your spam folders if you did not receive an email.
Miriam Fugfugosh, Center for Creative Leadership, Senior Faculty
Miriam is a Facilitator for several WomenLift Heath leadership journeys in the African region. She is a content designer and facilitator, she focuses on topics of leadership, inclusion, self-awareness building, team effectiveness and dialogue. She has founded and contributes to various programmes in women’s leadership enhancement internationally. For over 25 years, Miriam has contributed to learning opportunities for professionals in the public and private sector. She has worked with clients in the fields of peace enhancement, governance, global health systems, community resilience and human rights with individuals associated with national ministries, international organizations, foundations, NGOs, civil society and international corporations. Miriam works in multicultural, multinational, and multilingual environments across four continents with individuals of varying educational and professional backgrounds, and in various positions of hierarchies. A proud mother of two young men, Miriam was raised in Djibouti, is Somali-American and Swiss. She is fluent in English and French, and proficient in Spanish.
Find her on LinkedIn and X (Twitter)
PowerUp Workshop Series
The PowerUp Workshops series are free and open to mid-career women working in public health in all the regions we work. The workshops are hosted virtually, focus on developing leadership skills, and fostering meaningful connections between women leaders in health within a regional context. The topics rotate with each workshop. We encourage women leaders in public health in each region to join us, and use these workshops as an opportunity to learn, engage with other women leaders, and build community.
Conflict Dynamics: Building Better Relationships
October 17th, 2025 @3-5pm WAT
WomenLift Health in partnership with WILAN is hosting an interactive virtual workshop to provide mid-career women working in public health in Nigeria with the information and tools to move towards a more productive and sustainable way of managing the boundaries between their work and personal lives.
Conflict is inevitable, unavoidable, complex, and can be mentally, emotionally and physically draining, and difficult to navigate. Conflict can also negatively impact personal progress and goals, team dynamics, and workplace culture. Research shows that women tend to avoid disagreement, corresponding to socially constructed norms of femininity.
Conflict can also serve a purpose. It can generate new solutions, build better relationships, and increase job satisfaction. It is key to innovation and can be a critical component of risk mitigation. Conflict follows a predictable pathway and will diverge to become either constructive or destructive. The question for this workshop is: How do we navigate the path of conflict so that it is constructive, and we can walk away feeling positive, relaxed, and even motivated?
In this session, for beginners and seasoned practitioners alike, we will explore the Conflict Dynamics Model by unpacking the behaviors and actions that influence interpersonal conflict. Attendees will reflect on and map out a recent work disagreement by focusing on the active, passive, constructive and destructive response pathways. We will understand how to identify our own “hot buttons” and contributions to either escalating or de-escalating conflict.
PowerUp Objectives:
This session will unpack the behaviors and actions that influence interpersonal conflict at the workplace. You will:
- Examine how your approach to conflict affects your health, and the health of your relationships at work and at home
- Explore how you can shift to a more positive, constructive response in conflict situations
Registration Details
Please note that to enroll in the session, you should complete all sections of the registration form.
You are eligible for the workshop if you meet the following criteria:
- Identify as a woman
- Has 10-25 years of work experience and/or identifies as someone in mid-career in their institutions*
- Work in a role that focuses on public health policy, practice, and/or research (your work and partnerships serve populations at the national or regional level in Nigeria and may include practicing public health in hospitals and health centers, producing research and innovation, creating or implementing policy, and managing teams/departments or projects/grants.)
This virtual workshop will be conducted in the English language and is free of cost.
WomenLift Health PowerUp Workshops are interactive. By signing up, you agree to participate in the full session, which includes plenary discussions and breakout group activities.
Enrollment will be on a first-come-first-served basis, as spots are limited.
*Although women at all career stages are welcome to register, we believe participants who are at the mid-career stage will benefit most, as the content of the workshop has been designed with mid-career women professionals in mind (10–25 years of experience working in the public health sector). If the number of registrants exceeds our capacity, women who are within the preferred experience range will be given priority.
Registrants should await an email confirming their spot in the workshop. Please check your spam folders if you did not receive an email.