Tending to the Roots of Conflict in a Divided World

Most approaches to conflict and systemic harm focus primarily on cultural context and external circumstances, without truly addressing the deeper fears and desires that keep these larger conditions in place. 

Through a trauma-informed process of guided self-inquiry and embodied exploration, participants in this course will gain a personally transformative, in-depth understanding of the ways in which self-suppression and inner fragmentation create and sustain the oppressive systems that inform personal and collective conflict.

By illuminating how these hidden patterns shape our sense of self, our relationships with others, and the wider web we all belong to, you’ll gain invaluable insights into the unconscious drivers of division while nurturing your ability to address the roots of conflict in your life and in our world.

Civil rights activist James Baldwin famously said, “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hatred so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

Unless we create the conditions that allow us to courageously confront that pain, we risk creating more of the same. Understanding what happens within us builds our capacity to interrupt what is unconsciously reproduced around us—and makes it possible to imagine and create something different for generations to come.