The Art of Generative Conflict
This is a 8-week series
Brave Space
We provide a brave, compassionate, and structured space to address and heal what enables and gives rise to acts of harm.
We utilize culturally relevant, somatic healing arts to address how the body, impacted by violence, records that violence, and externalizes it onto others and onto the self.
We utilize creative arts to get around our logical exterior and guide ourselves to act, move, and respond from the heart.
Our Approaches
We use a democratic, non-hierarchical model that acknowledges that everyone is the expert of their own healing.
Reflective journaling, dialogue, movement, visual representation, care work as home work, and psycho / political education are some of the tools we will use throughout this journey.
We interrogate the notion that vulnerability is a state of weakness and remember it as a source of powerful strength.
Confidentiality
This is a confidential and consensual group.
Participants are supported through risk-taking without disclosing the details of harm caused, witnessed, or survived.
Our facilitators are not mandated reporters.
Applications Open For Our Summer
8-week workshop
Applications open until spaces are filled. We limit our circle to 16 participants to maintain safety and connection.
Growing Collective Accountability Facilitators
As part of this work, we train individuals interested in leading this work as they receive the benefits of this work. People trust those they know with their intimate stories, pain, and desires for personal growth. We want to give existing local leaders additional tools to address individual and collective trauma and violence, and therefore build the capacity for more communities to create a culture of accountability and compassion.
Our participant-researcher model during our pilot has resulted in prior participants co-facilitating future sessions. We are interested in training individuals who have the most capacity to lead this work forward in their own communities. Questions for those interested are listed in each application.
