Embodied Conflict Resolution Certificate
Information Session
This series can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings.
JOIN US LIVE FOR THE FREE INFO SESSION
May 7th, 2023 from 6pm - 7:30pm ET (New York)
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
Are you a facilitator, relationship therapist, coach, or group worker? Are you looking for a strong foundation in conflict resolution skills that incorporates the body, trauma awareness, and anti-oppression?
Then this 25hr Embodied Conflict Resolution Certificate program is for you!
This unique 25-hour Certificate Program offers a strong foundation in conflict resolution by providing a holistic approach that combines body-centered practices with trauma-informed techniques and anti-oppression principles.
With Kai Cheng Thom, MSc, Qualified Mediator, and professional somatic coach, we’ll learn to identify and regulate our own emotional responses, communicate effectively, and create a safe and respectful environment for resolving conflicts.
The program is designed for anyone looking to expand their skills and build a strong foundation in anti-oppressive conflict management to facilitate transformation in community and organizational settings.
“The worst part of you has always been trying to find its way back to love. And the worst part of your enemy and oppressor is also trying to find its way back to love.”
ABOUT THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Are you a facilitator, relationship therapist, coach, or group worker? Are you looking for a strong foundation in conflict resolution skills that incorporates the body, trauma awareness, and anti-oppression?
Join Kai Cheng Thom, MSc, Qualified Mediator, and professional somatic coach for Embodied Conflict Resolution. This course is a deep dive into the conceptual frameworks, process structures, and practical embodiment and conversational skills that are needed for trauma-informed, anti-oppressive conflict management and transformation in community and organizational settings.
Based on Kai Cheng’s Loving Justice conflict transformation model, this course will explore conflict transformation through an embodiment lens – exploring the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and social levels through which conflict occurs. We will introduce tools for distress tolerance and emotional regulation, as well as group depolarization and perspective-taking.
Participants can expect to leave the course with:
A strong theoretical and practical knowledge of the ways that conflict impacts the nervous system
Skills for self-soothing and embodying values in conflict situations
A strong understanding of the Loving Justice model of the meta-skills and micro-skills needed for interpersonal conflict engagement
Basic knowledge of the difference between collaborative and competitive conflict resolution processes, and
A grasp of basic techniques for conflict resolution in group settings.
The political context of police and prison abolitionism and Restorative and Transformative Justice, from which many aspects of Kai Cheng’s Loving Justice Model is derived, will be interwoven throughout the class.
Participants should expect to engage with political perspectives that may be very different from their own, including potentially triggering comments from other participants.
As conflict resolution practice requires practitioners to develop a high capacity for navigating charged emotional content, a greater level of tolerance for disagreement and conflicting ideologies will be expected of all students.
PLEASE NOTE:
THIS IS NOT AN ENTRY-LEVEL COURSE, AND A NON-TRIGGERING SPACE CANNOT BE GUARANTEED.
JOIN US LIVE FOR THE FREE INFO SESSION
May 7th, 2023 from 6pm - 7:30pm ET (New York)
WHO IS THIS PROGRAM FOR?
• Relationships
• Coaching
• Helping Professions
• Facilitation
• Caregiving
• Parenting
• Mentorship
• Health Care
• Yoga
• Teaching
• Leadership
• Pastoral Work
• Marriage
• Sex & Sexuality
• Transformative Justice
• Healers
• Activists
• Anyone seeking to gain a strong foundation in conflict resolution skills that incorporates the body, trauma awareness, and anti-oppression