🤲🏽 conflict transformation + culture change facilitation
I support individuals, groups, and organizations to build a deeper culture of centered accountability, trust, and repair.
Our work together could look like:
🌸 designing a feedback practice
🌸 hosting a “how to give an apology” workshop
🌸 mediating conflict between comrades and coworkers
Rate: $231/per hour. Please inquire about a reduced rate, if needed.
One free 30 minute introductory call with all potential clients.
A bit about my approach and background:
Conflict is painful. And like many wounds, it has something to teach us. I facilitate conflict transformation spaces where folks are invited to slow down and attend to the pain and teachings of a conflict. Through these containers, be it a workshop or mediation process, I support each person to deepen their presence, vulnerability, and skill in navigating conflict.
Conflict is a place where we can practice being present with our pain and the pain of others.
My approach to facilitation starts here. By getting present and developing a curiosity about ourselves in conflict (ex. what are the moods, sensations, thoughts, beliefs we notice arising?), we can begin to move through stuckness and self-limiting patterns. Rather than seeing ourselves, the other person, or the situation as something to “fix,” we start by honoring the wisdom of our familiar responses, tendencies, and survival strategies — dignifying how they’ve kept us safe. Our ambitious ideas of what resolving conflict looks like may skip over this initial step. Thankfully, many healing practices — be it mindfulness, somatics, or organizing — remind us of this: all transformation begins by noticing what is.
Conflict can open us to our profound ability to change, and at times even heal, together.
Facing conflict through mediation invites us to slow down and feel. Bayo Akomolafe teaches, “Slowing down is not a function of speed, it is a function of awareness […] It is a function of presence.” In this way, a conflict transformation process can return us to the gift of our attention — an increasingly commodified resource. Conflict transformation gives us a rare opportunity to be awake, open, and connected to our capacity to change. Experiencing ourselves and others change through conflict can feed our sense of possibility and power to change or “shape back” the world.
My facilitation practices are rooted in transformative justice principles — i.e. that we can “address harm without causing more harm” (as said by Mia Mingus).
These practices are informed by over a decade of community organizing across the U.S. South with STAND with Dignity, Southerners on New Ground, the Matti Collective, PowerUp NC, and Durham Community Apothecary; national organizing in leftist Asian American organizations 18 Million Rising and South Asian Americans Leading Together; and six years of somatic practice in the lineage of generative somatics.