About

We consider our own stories through William Ury's proposition that "all conflicts arise from the failure to have needs met." We use a scarcity-needs-based conflict analysis approach using the Medicine Wheel framework whereby we examine the spiritual, emotional, physical and intellectual aspects of our human needs.

Our aim in this 2-day workshop is to explore ways of being that keep us apart and ways that bring us together. Through this process we hope to understand the work we require for balance and harmony.

Some of the topics we cover are motivation, identity formation, media literacy, privilege, concepts of spiritual, emotional, physical and intellectual intelligence, critical communication strategies, understanding the political economy of the production of knowledge, and more.

Some of the tools we’ll be using are storytelling, role-playing, mapping social relationships, effective facilitation skills, fundamentals for having difficult conversations, and more.

Join us in understanding scarcity-needs-based conflict and how it informs all of our interactions. Acquire deep personal insight into the historical, social, political and economic factors that brought you to this place, and the work each of us needs to do to reconcile our own journey, others' journeys, and the connection between the two. Gain teachings and tools to understand why people resist and how they can be motivated towards social change. This workshop is also particularly important for people and organizations that are dealing with issues of lateral violence.