A 4-week descent into the slow, relational work of staying human inside systems that fragment us
This is a 4-week series offered every month for small groups of six participants, gathering over four Saturdays or four Sundays, depending on which cohort you join. We’ll turn inwards to the places in us that conflict touches. The parts that defend, collapse, protect or disappear. The parts that hold grief, fear, memory and longing. We’ll move gently, and together through what we’ve inherited, what systems have shaped in us, and what it might mean to meet conflict as part of being alive and in relation, without turning away from ourselves.
This offering is grounded in the values of restorative and transformative justice.
We come not to rise above conflict, but to sit in the belly of it. To turn towards the parts of us that never learned they were allowed to stay.
Next dates:
Saturdays - November 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd
or
Sundays - November 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd
When: 9:30am – 1:30pm IST
Where: Online (Zoom)
Group size: 6 participants
Fee: Sliding scale
This is for you if:
You want to understand your own responses in conflict more deeply, and in an embodied, grounded way
You're carrying stories of rupture you haven’t yet had space to tend to.
You're resisting the pull of social systems that teach us to disconnect, numb out and move on.
You’re longing to do this work in community and to practice and be witnessed, together.
What you bring to this space will be held with care and confidentiality. Between sessions, there will be small practices and check-ins to help carry the work into daily life.
What we’ll move through together:
Week 1: Arriving
We’ll begin by grounding in awe and wonder, remembering what sustains us as we face what’s difficult. Through community-building and collective ritual, we’ll get to know one another, co-create our values and guidelines, and name how conflict is alive in our lives right now. We’ll also begin weaving the altar that will hold us through the weeks ahead.
Week 2: Mapping Where Conflict Lives in Us
This week invites us to listen closely to the signals our bodies send us in and around conflict, the ways our breath, posture and energy shift when we're in the midst of conflict. Through embodied mapping and guided practices, we’ll start to see our conflict patterns more clearly and in a shared witnessing space, we will begin to honour them as protectors rather than flaws.
Week 3: Staying With the Mess
This week invites us to stay present with discomfort without needing to resolve it. We will practice being with contradictions, complexity, with layered truths and all the things that don't resolve neatly.
Week 4: Returning
We’ll close the series by noticing what tenderness, clarity or new capacities are emerging. We’ll imagine what it means to return to ourselves, our relationships and our communities with more spaciousness and honesty. We’ll weave together the threads of our time together and create a collective map of resources to carry forward.