Navigating Generative Conflict

While many comrades do our best to live and breathe our liberatory principles into our daily lives to protect, defend, fortify, and resource multiply-marginalized communities, navigating conflict in generative and non-avoidant ways can feel particularly challenging, particularly for those of us who are recovering and healing from oppressive harm and trauma.

This workshop is designed to create openings for values-embodied comrades to take greater responsibility for themselves while navigating the inherent challenges of being in conflict.

During this 2-hour workshop, anti-oppression facilitator and coach Yejin Lee (she/they) will:

• build some trust among participants;
• faciltiate discussion about external barriers to being in generative conflict;
• support attendees in identifying the very subjective internal barriers that make it difficult to relate to conflict generatively;
• provide a care-based strategic framework for comrades to have greater agency and ownership over the choices they make when deep in conflict;
• identify arenas and techniques for potential practice;
• offer introspective reflection questions to support participants in evaluating and readjusting their practices.

This workshop is for…

• Folks who care about embodying their values in actionable, tangible, and material ways in all aspects of their lives;
• Values-embodied sweeties who want to remove hierarchy from their everyday practices;
• Cuties who want more support and guidance in being generatively introspective about their political praxis;
• Pumpkin pies who are ready to reject colonialism, imperialism, capitalism!!

This workshop will center…

• Folks of multiply-marginalized identities;
• Comrades who have experienced oppressive harm through practices of hierarchy;
• Anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism!!

This workshop will decenter…

• Whiteness & white supremacy
• Traditional forms and expressions of leadership
• Professionalism

IMPORTANT NOTES

• Backup Date: In case of emergency, illness, or technical difficulty, Yejin has scheduled a backup date for this workshop - that date is Thursday, May 15th from 3-5pm EST. Please put a hold on your calendar just in case!
• Recording: This session will be recorded and made available to all registrants for 60 days following the event. Captions will be enabled, and the transcript will also be sent along with the recording. Since this is taking place via Zoom Meeting and will encourage interactivity, folks will have the option to request pausing the recording before they speak. The chat will also be shared, but Yejin will scrub everyone’s names from the document for added safety.
• Pricing: Yejin utilizes a justice approach to pricing, and trusts everyone to honestly locate what they are able to spend. 30 free community tickets are available to multiply-marginalized sweeties, and more seats will become available with every purchase of a “sponsor” type ticket and for every $30 contributed to the free ticket fund. UPDATE: all thirty free community tickets have been snagged, but have no fear! The waitlist is up and running! Remember - free things are nice, but folks who can pay should pay!
• Follow-Up: All registrants will receive a comprehensive follow-up message, which includes the recording/transcript/chat/slide deck, additional resources (e.g. articles, podcast episodes), and a workbook to support internalization and application of the session.

About Yejin

Yejin Lee (she/they) is a queer, genderfluid, neurodivergent, 2nd gen Korean cutie comrade who works as an anti-oppression practitioner, coach and consultant. They facilitate equity-based transformation processes and catalyze generative introspection for folks interested in deepening their material commitment to liberatory praxis. Centering people of intersecting marginalized identities who experience oppressive harm, they support building practices and eco-systems of care in service of survival and liberation.

As a result of their recent return to queerness and their current explorations around their neurodivergence, Yejin seeks to make room for wholeness, softness, and lightness in and beyond their work. They are an uncertified silly goose, an anti-colonial sweetie, and love spending time dancing in anime cosplay on TikTok, playing drums, gardening, hiking, and building community around their special interests!