Turning Towards Each Other: Navigating Conflict for Social Change - Part I

Turning Towards Each Other: Navigating Conflict for Social Change Agents Part 1: Understanding Our Conflict Habits & Archetypes

The time has come for humans to learn to live well with each other and the earth or die trying!

Conflict (by which we mean run-of-the-mill disagreements and interpersonal tensions, not abuse or structural violence) is a necessary and inevitable part of living in the world, especially when you’re someone trying to change it. Too often our change work gets stalled or shut down by poorly handled and/or avoided conflicts.

It’s time to build our collective conflict resilience and turn toward the gifts of conflict as a means of building trust, clarifying our strategies, and learning about ourselves and each other. Because we need all of us more than ever! Let's learn to embrace the gifts of conflict and turn towards each other.

Join Weyam Ghadbian, Jovida Ross, authors of Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook for a 3-part series on turning towards each other to navigate conflict.

Part 1: Understanding Our Conflict Habits & Archetypes

Friday October 30th, 2020

10:00-11:30am PST / 12:00-1:30pm CST / 1:00-2:30pm EST

In this workshop we will identify the conflict habits within ourselves and the groups we work within. Utilizing a four archetype framework of “victim,” “warrior,” “leader/healer,” and “creator,” (created by Gitanjali Hemp) we will explore strategies for how to move through common stuck places individually and in the life cycle of our groups.

Energy Exchange:

Solidarity Rate: $60 for Part 1; $150 if you sign up in advance for all 3 workshops

Base Rate: $40 for Part 1, $100 if you sign up in advance for all 3 workshops

Reparations Rate: $20 for Part 1, $50 if you sign up in advance for all 3 workshops

(for more information on each rate, click on them under "tickets")

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Future Workshops in the Series (discount if you sign up for all of them at once):

Part 2: Navigating Courageous Conversations in Conflict

Friday November 20, 2020

10:00-11:30am PST / 12:00-1:30pm CST / 1:00-2:30pm EST

Unmet and unvoiced needs are some of the most common precursors to conflict, In this workshop we will learn practices for excavating our core needs, giving and receiving feedback productively, and making requests to address pain points through courageous conversations.

Part 3: Dominant Culture Patterns & Conflict

Friday December 11, 2020

10:00-11:30am PST / 12:00-1:30pm CST / 1:00-2:30pm EST

We live in a world shaped by legacies of brutal colonization, enslavement, heteropatriarchy that continue to shape the culture we live in. That means these patterns have shaped us too, and we must assume they are always present in our relationships. When we avoid conflict or move through it carelessly, we end up acting out and reinforcing micro versions of those structural patterns unconsciously, even if we are from an identity harmed by those systems. In this workshop we will learn to identify how dominant culture patterns arise within ourselves and our groups when in conflict and identity strategies to replace them with regenerative patterns.

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Jovida Ross works with Real Food Real Stories, seeding culture towards a caring, regenerative, and just tomorrow. www.realfoodrealstories.org

Weyam Ghadbian (they/she) is a Syrian community weaver, healer, meditation instructor, and transformative facilitator. www.weyamhealing.com