Free yourself from stress and regret while protecting your health and relationships
Conflict Resolution Quest
Conflict isn’t just frustrating—it’s exhausting, and it can quietly damage your health.
The stress it creates doesn’t stop when the argument ends. It keeps your nervous system on high alert, disrupting your sleep, draining your energy, and contributing to serious long-term risks like heart disease and burnout.
But it doesn’t have to be that way.
The Conflict Resolution Quest gives you a science-backed, practical process to break the stress loop and handle conflict with clarity, care, and confidence.
In just minutes a day, you’ll discover how to turn even the toughest conversations into opportunities for connection and progress—without sacrificing your well-being. This is your path to healthier relationships, stronger resilience, and a calmer mind.
The Quest Begins July 14th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins July 11th.
Is Conflict Wearing You Down—Draining Your Energy, Straining Your Relationships, and Taking a Serious Toll on Your Health?
Sometimes it starts with an eye roll. Or a tone. Or the same disagreement that replays endlessly.
You hold back to keep the peace—then feel resentful.
You speak up—and things spiral into anger or criticism.
You try to be patient. Pick the right moment. Explain more clearly.
Sometimes it helps. But not for long. The same frustration returns. The same resentment … or seething anger. The issue resurfaces. Or a new one hits harder. And nothing really gets solved. You overthink what you said—or didn’t. Imagine better comebacks. Replay the moment at 2:00 am.
Meanwhile, the real problem gets buried under stress, defensiveness, or the violence of silence. You wonder why it’s such a struggle to get through to people—why conversations turn toxic or go nowhere. You’re not imagining it.
Conflict is part of being human.
You’re not failing—you’re just trying to get through one of the hardest challenges of human interaction.
But left unresolved, conflict shapes how you show up, how you connect, and how much control of your life you feel you have. But what if conflict wasn’t just something to survive—but a way to create better outcomes than either side imagined?
This Quest gives you a science-based approach and process to make that shift—not someday, but now.
Why Managing Conflict Effectively Makes Such a Crucial Difference
Too many people think of conflict as a communication problem. But unresolved conflict is also a health problem.
When tension lingers and resentment simmers, your nervous system never really comes off alert. You live in a state of fight, flight, or freeze—even when nothing is actually happening.
Chronic interpersonal conflict doesn’t just harm relationships. Thousands of scientific studies show that ongoing conflict can lead to devastating health consequences by weakening your body’s ability to recover, regulate, and restore; and contributing to debilitating chronic disease and early death.
A recently published study on psychological stress and immune/cardiovascular function underscores how chronic stress—especially from unresolved conflict—can lead to systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, and immune dysregulation.
In fact, the link between chronic stress and hypertension, anxiety, and cardiovascular disease is so robust that the American Heart Association now emphasizes stress management as a key component of heart health.
But when you learn how to manage conflict, your entire system benefits.
You think more clearly. You communicate with more clarity, care, and purpose.
Instead of waking up in the middle of the night unable to fall back asleep because you’re reliving a difficult conversation or dreading the next, you wake up with resolve and confidence, knowing you can handle it.
The (Good) Ideas You’ve Tried Before That Haven’t Worked
You’ve tried to be more reasonable.
You’ve taken deep breaths, chosen your moment, and said things more calmly.
Maybe you’ve used a script, shared your feelings using “I” messages, or even made big concessions just to avoid another fight.
And for a while, it helped: The conversation went better. You felt heard. The tension eased. But then the pattern repeats again and again, the same or with variations.
And the so-called “solution”? It hasn’t stuck.
That’s the real challenge with conflict. It’s not just about finding a way through—it’s about making that resolution last.
Introducing the Conflict Resolution Quest
That’s why we’ve created the Conflict Resolution Quest, a seven-day guided experience to help you go beyond one-time fixes. It teaches you how to create outcomes that everyone involved can live with—not just for now, but for the future.
And more than that, it helps you turn conflict into an opportunity—where you and the other person walk away better than you thought possible.
That’s not fantasy. It’s what this Quest is built to help you do.
Quest Begins July 14th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins July 11th.
How to Forge Solutions That Work and Last —Without Ultimatums, Manipulation, Giving Up or Giving In
In just minutes a day for 7 days, this Quest gives you a structured, science-based process for handling conflict in a way that’s easier and more effective than you ever dreamed.
You won’t just “communicate better.”
You’ll learn how to act with clarity, care, and purpose in the moments that matter. How to live your core values all the time, not just when it’s easy.
This Quest helps you:
Define the outcome that really matters to you
Shift from “you vs me” to “us vs the problem”
Identify what’s already working, no matter how tiny—and do more of it
Work collaboratively to build solutions grounded in shared interests, not rigid positions
Mentally rehearse your preferred future, when conflict is something you manage rather than dread
Make taking effective action possible
Whether the conversation is with your partner, family member, boss, sibling, or friend—this process can help you get better results with less struggle. Protect your health, your energy, and your peace by joining now.
The BOND Framework
The Conflict Resolution Quest is built around the BOND framework—a practical, structured solution-focused approach to resolving conflict in real time.
BOND doesn’t just offer strategies. It gives you a step-by-step path to shift your mindset and build conflict resolution skills that stick.
BOND stands for:
- Begin with what matters most—by defining what a “better outcome” looks like and why it’s worth moving toward.
- Observe what’s already working—even if it’s small, fleeting, or easy to overlook.
- Name the next step— a real-world goal worth moving toward that could be done in the next 7–10 days.
- Do one small thing in the next 24 hours—make progress visible and keep momentum going.
These four parts guide you through a solution-focused conflict resolution process that helps you:
Focus on the future you want instead of recycling what’s wrong
Notice the micro-moments when conflict softened or connection grew
Set goals and mentally rehearse actions that feel doable, not overwhelming—even in tough situations and relationships
Take one small action today that reflects person you want to become so you create navigate conflicts that way you want
Through BOND, you stop defaulting to avoidance or escalation—and start responding in ways that reflect who you are at your best.
Quest Begins July 14th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins July 11th.
“I’ve found that each tool I’ve been given from this program adds to my toolbox to build on my resilience. Every opportunity to reflect on what is happening and how I’m responding gives me power to take control of how I handle what life springs on me.
Thank you for this course!”
Meet Your Expert Designers
Dr. Deborah Teplow
An expert in the science of behavior change, hope theory, and human performance, she is the co-founder and Chief Program Architect of Stamina Lab. She also the co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Wellness Education, where she set the US national wellness coaching standards and currently trains professionals in public health and social service agencies to engage clients in a self-change behavior process.
She earned her doctorate at Stanford University and holds certificates in several therapeutic modalities for helping professionals, including solution-focused brief therapy, and Tiny Habits® certification.
Glen Lubbert
Stamina Lab co-founder and seasoned tech entrepreneur, pioneers in human performance coaching to extend healthspan. His expertise in behavior design addresses the critical impact of sleep on health and performance, offering solutions for stress, burnout, and flow.
Glen’s credentials include mindfulness study under Jon Kabat-Zinn, Tiny Habits® certification, and certified as a Thrive Global coach and sleep expert, leveraging his Division I athlete experience to elevate others’ professional and personal lives.
It is bitesize but transformative learning is easy enough to do everyday and provides an accessible and practical way of applying what you have learnt to your unique situation and help you further build your resilience skills.
Why This Quest Will Do More Than Just Help You Avoid or Win Arguments—It Will Change Your Life
This Quest isn’t about using the right words or learning to “play nice.” It’s about transforming how you respond to challenging interactions—so you can speak up, stay grounded, and stand by your values, even when things get heated.
With values-based conflict resolution, you don’t just manage disagreement—you reshape it into something constructive. That transformation has measurable, life-changing benefits.
Research shows that effective conflict skills can:
- Protect your health – Keeping your cool helps you optimize your mind and body’s functioning. It improves mood and mindset to promote healthy movement, eating, sleeping, and more.
- Boost cognitive performance – People who engage in constructive conflict resolution tend to activate brain regions associated with empathy, regulation, and executive function—leading to better cognitive performance under pressure.
- Strengthen relationships – Being able to stay engaged instead of withdrawing or escalating increases trust, satisfaction, and connection across every kind of relationship.
- Reduce burnout and emotional fatigue – When you stop replaying arguments or anticipating explosions, you reclaim your energy and mental space.
The BOND framework helps you build this skill in real life—whether you’re navigating team tension, family dynamics, or high-stakes decisions.
Through this Quest, you won’t focus on defusing anger or smoothing things over. You’ll learn a wholly different way to face conflict, resolving differences while protecting what matters most—your health and well-being, your values and principles, and your sense of agency.
The ripple effects are real. This process:
- Aligns your actions with who you are at your best
- Breaks cycles of avoidance, blowups, or resentment
- Builds trust in your own ability to stay engaged and grounded
- Sparks creative thinking where old patterns have shut you down from constructive solutions
- Gives you a lived experience of what it means to resolve—not retreat
This isn’t about conflict management. It’s about becoming the kind of person who brings courage, clarity, and compassion to even the hardest conversations.
This Quest is where that begins.
Most conflict advice is based on control: how to control yourself, control your words, or control the other person.
This Quest features a solution-focused approach that’s unique because it starts at the end and not at the beginning.
Instead of analyzing what went wrong, who did what, how the problem began, who and what perpetuates it, and what people don’t get right, we help you ask wholly new and more fruitful questions such as:
This approach doesn’t just feel better. It works better. It teaches your brain and body how to stay grounded, recognize choice points, and act in ways that reflect your values—even when it’s hard.
That’s not theory. That’s transformation.
Quest Begins July 14th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins July 11th.
It is the whole package. When I’m distressed, often I can recall one or two aspects of toughness. but this provides a variety of tools that fit together. If one doesn’t work, lean on another.
How This Quest Works?
This is an immersive experience designed for real life because it focuses on pragmatism, not theory.
The Conflict Resolution Quest is a robust program that will transform your sense of what you’re capable of handling—and how you show up under pressure.
You’ll walk away with a new sense of yourself: not as someone ruled by stress, fear of conflict, shame, frustration, or regret, but as someone who manages it in ways that support your health, energy, relationships, and peace of mind. You’ll see yourself as someone grounded, capable, and aligned with what matters to you—able to respond and act effectively, even when life gets intense.
This Quest makes it easy and quick for you to experience this transformation.
Stamina Lab’s digital Health Optimization Platform is the hub of the Quest. It’s where you’ll find all the content and most activities of the program.
Each day, you’ll get a small, bite-sized:
Daily lesson
Learning activity
Inspirational quote or story
Journal prompt
Be Your Own Detective: Try Out Something New suggestion for experimentation
A valuable feature of the Quest is the human connection that extends opportunities to explore and discover new ways to boost your capacity to take valued action, and it comes in three ways:
2 live group coaching sessions for expert guidance and community support
Online forum and discussion for sharing
Private messaging
Your Quest Journal – A simple way to capture your answers to the daily journal prompts.
Studio Session Extended Group Coaching Session
The platform also provides a host of digital resources that expands and reinforces what you get out of the learning activities and community engagement.
Quest Begins July 14th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins July 11th.
You can make improvements in areas of your life you thought were “fixed” and not changeable. You don’t have to live with the thought” well this is just the way I am.”
What is Our Unique Solution-Focused Approach?
At Stamina Lab, we believe you are the expert on your own life. You know what works for you and what fits your needs, interests, and values. Our solution-focused coaches help you harness the strengths, skills, and resources you already have but that you may have overlooked, underestimated, discounted, or not even recognized.
Instead of focusing on problems and what you’re doing wrong, we emphasize what is already working for you, even if it’s just a tiny bit. We help you identify moments of success and effective coping and managing during hard times. Then, we use the evidence as a springboard for positive change.
Our approach reinforces the belief that progress is a matter of “when,” not “if,” and by celebrating small steps, we help you take manageable actions that lead to significant, lasting health outcomes.
Your Satisfaction Guaranteed
We stand behind the transformative power of this program. If you don’t feel more equipped to handle stress and change after starting the Quest, we offer a full refund within seven days of the program’s start.
Quest Begins July 14th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins July 11th.
Who Should Enroll?
This Quest is for people who care about the quality of their relationships—and are tired of conversations that lead to defensiveness, distance, or confusion instead of progress.
It’s for you if you want to be the best version of yourself you can be expressing yourself more clearly, responding more constructively, and breaking the recurring patterns that leave everyone frustrated, angry, or defeated.
It’s for people like you who want their conversations to reflect mutual respect and shared responsibility.
Whether you’ve felt unheard or accused, overwhelmed or uncertain, this Quest helps you find a better way forward—one that honors your values, and reveals your power to make positive lasting change within yourself and your relationships.
But this Quest isn’t for everyone.
It isn’t not for you if you expect others to change while you continue to act the same.
It isn’t for you if you want to avoid all emotional discomfort, or you see conflict resolution as a way to win rather than a way to grow.
And it isn’t you if you’re looking for scripts by which to manage others instead of skills to engage meaningfully.
This is a Quest for you if you’re ready to lead the change you want to see—one conversation at a time.
94% of participants agreed they gained practical strategies to increase their resilience, reduce stress, and rewrite their story.
Participants consistently experience a 30% boost in confidence after completing our Quests.
Participants rate our strategies 4.5 out of 5 for their effectiveness in creating healthier routines and life balance.
Net Promoter Score (NPS): A score above 50 is considered excellent, indicating high participant loyalty and positive word-of-mouth.
I found the interactive Resilience program to be really useful and powerful. It helped me to be very insightful, intentional and mindful of my activities during the day and to be aware if I was behaving within my values. It also made me recognize I had other values that I may not exercise as often, so I made some intentions to act on that value for the upcoming day. Very motivational.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the BOND framework?
BOND stands for:
- Begin with what matters most—by defining what a “better outcome” looks like and why it’s worth moving toward.
- Observe what’s already working—even if it’s small, fleeting, or easy to overlook.
- Name the next step— a real-world goal worth moving toward that could be done in the next 7–10 days.
- Do one small thing in the next 24 hours—make progress visible and keep momentum going.
What will I learn in the Conflict Resolution Quest
In just minutes a day for 7 days, this Quest gives you a structured, science-based process for handling conflict in a way that’s easier and more effective than you ever dreamed.
How much time do I need to commit each day?
The daily commitment is designed to be manageable even for busy schedules. Participants should expect to spend about five minutes each day on mini-lessons and exercises.
What kind of support will I receive during the Quest?
Participants will receive support through various channels, including direct access to instructors during live sessions and Q&A periods, a dedicated online forum for discussion with peers and trainers, and email support for more personalized queries.
Who is this Quest for?
This Quest is for people who care about the quality of their relationships—and are tired of conversations that lead to defensiveness, distance, or confusion instead of progress.
It’s for you if you want to be the best version of yourself you can be expressing yourself more clearly, responding more constructively, and breaking the recurring patterns that leave everyone frustrated, angry, or defeated.
It’s for people like you who want their conversations to reflect mutual respect and shared responsibility.
How is the program delivered?
The program is conveniently delivered via our app, compatible with both iPhone and Android devices. This allows you to participate from anywhere at any time. The app provides access to all guides and coaching materials, enables connection of wearable data when applicable, and facilitates messaging with your coaches throughout the Quest.
Are there any live sessions, and will they be recorded?
The Quest includes two 30-min live group coaching sessions for real-time interaction and deeper learning. To maintain a safe space for sharing and ensure the privacy of our participants, these sessions will not be recorded. This policy helps foster an open, trusting environment where participants can freely explore and share their experiences and insights.
What happens if I miss a day or fall behind?
All materials, including video lessons and resources, will be accessible throughout the Quest and after its conclusion, allowing participants to catch up or review at their own pace.
What if I find that the Quest isn't right for me?
We offer a satisfaction guarantee with a full refund within seven days of the program’s start if you feel the Quest does not meet your expectations.
This is not the same old, same old tips and tricks. It changed the way I think about procrastination. My new focus on outcomes has made me more productive, and I’m working on the tasks that matter.
Join the Conflict Resolution Quest Today
You don’t need to wait for the perfect moment, or for someone else to change first.
You can step into a new way of handling conflict—one that protects your health, supports your values, and actually gets you what you want.
This Quest gives you the structure, the strategies, and the support to begin.
Quest Begins July 14th. Registration Ends & Onboarding Begins July 11th.