This is the 5th webinar in our series put together by facilitators across the ALC Network as an introduction to the philosophy, tools, and practices from our self-directed education communities. It is our hope that the content offered in these sessions will be useful to families adapting to having kids unable to physically attend their usual learning centers, schools, and other facilitated meetups. Profits from registrations will go to supporting awesome facilitators in continuing to offer online support and sessions even as covid-19 closures of centers and side-hustle spaces strain folks' finances.

For many of us, our early experiences with conflict taught us to respond to tension with fear, avoidance, or attempts at control. To work through, learn from, and mediate conflicts as part of a supportive community means unlearning many of the overculture's ideas about conflict...then intentionally practicing more potential-filled ways of engaging. In this session, part 1 of 2, we'll discuss mindfulness and the role of your feelings, NVC//mediation//deescalation, an ALC community's relationship to conflict, the role of boundaries/agreements, and our conflict resolution process in theory/practice.

This webinar is hosted by Jennifer Campbell (she/they). Jennifer firmly believes that education is pointless if it cannot survive outside of a classroom. They bring to their facilitation at Abrome their generalist social work training, which includes communication and advocacy skills, as well as their love of collaborating to solve complex problems. A lifelong Learner, Jennifer enjoys dancing, drawing, singing, performing, reading, and debate. They are committed to holding themself and their peers accountable to creating an anti-racist, abolitionist, nonbinary, liberated world.