Moving from Tension to Transformation: Approaching Organizational Conflict with a Systems Change and Embodiment Lens

About

This interactive webinar explores organizational conflict through systems change and embodiment approaches. You will learn a set of frameworks, practices, and skills that help organizations shift away from individual, team, and system-level tensions that distract from and impede meaningful work. We'll also offer you opportunities to work towards generative conflict transformations. This includes building stronger relationships, increasing organizational cohesion, and aligning organizational functioning with mission, vision, and values. With your confirmation, you will receive a downloadable mini workbook to use during this session.

This session is ideal for leaders and consultants grappling with tensions, conflicts, internal ruptures, and/or implosions impeding organizational and movement work. It is also for those looking to further develop their learning around conflict transformation and experiment with new approaches. If you recognize yourself in some of the following scenarios, this webinar may be right for you:

• There is a constant swing from crisis to crisis; I feel like organizational staff and leadership are always in rapid response mode, and it's just heightening everyone’s anxiety, tension, and exhaustion;
• As a leader, I don’t know how to hold power and make leadership decisions in a way that doesn’t feel oppressive to the staff;
• As a consultant, I worry that I am over-identifying with the leadership (or staff) of the organization I am consulting with and want greater distance and perspective;
• I’m exhausted. I don’t know how to deal with or work through the organization’s internal challenges without so much drama.
• I keep witnessing so many patterns around conflict repeating themselves. I want to understand how to make fundamental changes that could help us move forward in a new way.

Please join us for shared reflection, connection to others, and exploration of new strategies for approaching conflict transformation.

Presenters

Co-presenters Corita Brown and Marian Urquilla-Flores are seasoned organizational development consultants and coaches working at the intersection of systems change, racial justice, and inner work. The discussion will be moderated by Rhonesha Blaché, Ed.D. and Jeanne Bell.