Date/Time
Date(s) - December 6, 2024
9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Fee: Sliding Scale
Register at: https://empowr-transformation.com/events/conflict-evolution-retreat/
From Empower Transformation:
A Professional Development Training Retreat – Dive deep into the relationship between dominant culture and conflict avoidance and how we evolve the fear of conflict into a generative practice essential for healthy workplaces.
An intimate training retreat experience held at Grandmother Cherry Sanctuary – an herbal healing sanctuary in the forest. We will lean into the support of this healing space to build capacity for direct communication about comfort, its relationship to conflict, and how to generate productive conflict that can transform team dynamics for meeting the challenges of our times.
This retreat will build skills for:
- Build skills to embody discomfort as a collective group experience
- Communicate about dominant culture norms and the direct harm associated with conflict avoidance
- Diagnose group conflict break downs and navigate antidotes and strategies for conflict evolution
- Nervous system regulation practices for small groups and teams to improve conflict resilience
- Strengthen relationship and trust building foundations for conflict evolution
- Understand personal, interpersonal, and group behaviors around conflict
Your retreat experience is intentionally designed as a training with spaciousness for emergence and exploring specific situations participants are navigating. Retreat facilitators will guide participants through embodied experiential learning of both the concepts prepared and issues and questions raised in real time. The result is a vulnerable, shared learning space that is shaped by participants and facilitators working collaboratively together. The process and experience will serve as a key aspect of the training retreat, perhaps even more so than the content.
Conflict avoidance is one of the primary collusion tools encouraged in dominant culture to uphold the characteristics of patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, and oppression. Learning how to effectively engage in conflict is one of the keys to transforming systems for collective liberation.