Festival of Conflict
3rd Feb 2020 - 4th Feb 2020
10am - 5pm
Interdependent gift economy
Led by: Sophie Docker | Contact Sophie
Join OpenEdge for a 2-day workshop to explore how we can engage with conflict for positive transformation internally, in relationships and in our systems and structures...
Whether you work in conflict transformation and peace building or would like to develop skills to support your personal or professional life, your community or organisation,the Festival of Conflict could be for you!
From OpenEdge's varied, global experiences of conflict work we are clear that positive and transformative engagement with any conflict (e.g. interpersonal, organisational, environmental, economic, armed conflict), as well as any attempts to build new ways for human co-existence, require a change in how we understand conflict.
We believe that we each have the capacity to walk forward into conflicts and challenges with confidence, grace, wisdom and artistry, with the enthusiastic understanding that conflicts can actually serve us!
Through participatory activities for connection, reflection and learning, we offer a selection of key focuses, such as
- what are conflict, violence and peace?
- understanding violent and non-violent conflict
- conflict and personal power, conflict and structural power
- re-figuring security and belonging
- understanding identity conflicts -teams, tribes, 'us and them'
- gender, conflict and peace
- culture, conflict and peace
- justice, conflict and peace
- spirituality, religion, conflict and peace
- beyond traditional peace building, transitional justice, development
- finding beauty in contradictions, paradoxes and messiness
- creating indisputable territory
- empathy -when agreeing and disagreeing doesn't matter any more!
- transforming right and wrong, judgment and blame
- feedback systems
- staying in the power of your authentic experience
- neuroscience and conflict
- restorative systems building
- unconscious cycles of violence
- realising the interdependence of our survival
- experiencing interdependent needs.