Holding Difference: Moving Toward Liberatory Futures through Conflict

We are ...a community of mental health workers, clinicians, psychiatrists, current and prior users of mental health services, advocates, artists, and survivors of trauma and adversity, who are interested in exploring the link between personal and societal transformation.

Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Part of IDHA's Spring 2022 virtual training series CULTIVATING COMMUNITY

<h3>To learn more, please visit: <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/crisis-as-catalyst" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/cultivating-community" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.idha-nyc.org/cultivating-community</a><a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/psychologies-of-liberation" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a></h3><h3>*ASL and live closed captioning provided*</h3><h3>NOTE: 2.75 CE credits are available for this class. Learn more about CE credits at IDHA <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/ce-information" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</h3><h2>Class Description</h2><p>The diversity of our communities and movements is a critical strength in our ability to work toward collective liberation. Differences in identity, perspective, experience, and opinion inevitably manifest in disagreement and conflict, and may contribute to harm in the absence of common language, practices, and systems for conflict analysis and conscious response. These skills are similarly necessary for those of us providing care to individuals or within our communities, as we often work with people and groups with histories, identities, and experiences that vary from our own – including in ways that may challenge our own worldviews and realities.</p><p>This class will help participants deepen their understanding and analysis of difference and conflict. We will engage with practical tools to support building empathy amid disagreement, understand and map power dynamics, and discuss the choice points available throughout conflict when we choose to respond rather than react. Stemming from the understanding that conflict is inevitable and can be a powerful asset in co-designing more liberated futures, faculty will guide participants to engage with and prepare for conflict in ways that generate more possibilities, greater connection, and fuller expression.</p><h2>Learning Objectives</h2><ul><li>Demonstrate the power of dissent and disagreement when paired with connection and mutual care in a range of contexts</li><li>Evaluate how to practice “polyphony” and “both/and” in your work, holding multiple voices and perspectives at the same time</li><li>Integrate the principles of “generative conflict,” understanding the conditions that make its practice possible, as well as how to move away from conflict avoidance and unhealthy attachment to conflict</li><li>Practice sitting with discomfort and uncertainty </li></ul><h2>Faculty</h2><p><strong>Stas Schmiedt </strong>(they/them) is a nonbinary BlaQ-Italian storyteller, abolitionist organizer, and healer rooted in Ute, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne lands in Denver, CO and Miccosukee, Seminole and Tequesta lands in Miami, FL.</p><p><strong>Leander Roth</strong> (he/they) works to prevent and respond to gender based violence as a consent educator, transformative justice practitioner, facilitator, coach, and fiction writer based on Ute, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne lands in Denver, CO.</p><p>Stas + Leander are the two co-founders and vision keepers of Spring Up and bluelight academy of the liberatory arts; Spring Up is a collective of care workers, transformative justice practitioners, liberatory educators, and coaches practicing and teaching the liberatory arts at bluelight academy.</p><p><em>Agenda:</em></p><ul><li><em>Introductions, welcome, and check-in (15 min, 12-12:15)</em></li><li><em>Common language, mapping power, and how conflict plays out in relationships (45 min, 12:15-1)</em></li><li><em>Breakout room and share backs (30 min, 1-1:30)</em></li><li><em>Break (15 min, 1:30-1:45)</em></li><li><em>Generative conflict strategies and practices (30 min, 1:45-2:15)</em></li><li><em>Breakout room and experiential practice (30 min, 2:15-2:45)</em></li><li><em>Group reflection and closing comments (15 min, 2:45-3)</em></li></ul><h2>What You Get</h2><p>Registration includes the 3-hour class session, and access to IDHA’s School for Transformative Mental Health forum on  Mighty Networks. Those who enroll at the General or Supporter Rate also have access to 2.75 complementary CE credits. This is our virtual learning community where you’ll have the opportunity to engage with other students and your faculty.</p><h3>Questions? Email us at contact@idha-nyc.org</h3>

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