Speak What Is There:Communication and Conflict Skills Ahead of the Holidays

Speaking What Is There: Communication and Conflict Skills Ahead of the Holidays (with Angela Kim)

Join us on Saturday, November 8th from 2PM PST - 3:30PM PST / 5PM EST - 6:30PM EST for our next People's School for Justice session!

If you were on a roadtrip with a friend and someone said “look, it’s a tree” how would others respond? Perhaps with affirmations “oh ya”, perhaps with curiosity “do you know what kind of tree that is?” or perhaps with admiration “that is so beautiful.” Why is it that when we share observations of our emotional realities, we are often not met with the same affirmations, curiosity, and admiration? If on this same roadtrip, I were to say “oh look, I am feeling sad that we didn’t have time to stop at my favorite bakery.” Imagine all of the storms that could arise in response. Storms of guilt, shame, blame, perhaps even resentment and annoyance depending on how that roadtrip had been going. But meeting each other’s emotions with affirmation, curiosity, admiration, care, and compassion is possible!

This 1.5-hour workshop will be a space to practice speaking what is there, noticing storms that may be arising in the distance, and meeting each other and our own emotions with curiosity, care, and compassion. The best time to practice these is before we get on that roadtrip, or the holidays with your family.

About the Facilitator: Angela is a Visionary Organizing and Kingian Nonviolence facilitator-trainer working towards a world where we have increased capacities to sit with our own and each other’s complexities. Angela stewards community containers where participants can share grief, practice conflict skills, and be co-opted into emergence inspired by the erotic, the intuitive, the divine, and the more-than-human.