About this series
Conflict can be hugely painful, hurtful and traumatic. It's also always going to be with us, in our families and friendships, our romantic relationships, our work, our organising groups and our global society.
I believe that working with conflict can help us deepen connection, and support personal and collective transformation and liberation. Conflict can give us valuable feedback on the ways of doing things and the systems holding those patterns in place.

How we respond to emerging conflict can be a game changer: we can help de-escalate tensions, and create space find a generative way of engaging with the conflict that's emerging. I believe learning to see conflict as an opportunity for growth and being willing to address tensions together is some of the most important work we can do in our lives.

However, that's easier said than done: for most of us, being in conflict is pretty stressful. This course explores how the Resilience Toolkit can support us to navigate conflict in ways that bring more connection, more transformation and more joy.

What is the Resilience Toolkit?
The Resilience Toolkit is a practical framework with small, easy steps to increase resilience and lower stress in your day to day life, making it easier to make choices that work for you.

In this course we will explore how the Resilience Toolkit can help navigate conflict. We’ll deepen our understanding of conflict, exploring different ways to understand conflict and what happens in our bodies when we’re in conflict. The Resilience Toolkit offers us ways to navigate conflict differently – with frameworks and practical tools to help pave a different path. At the end of this course you’ll have the beginning of a practice to support you to navigate conflict differently.

You'll leave with:

• ways of increasing your capacity to be with conflict
• an understanding of the impact conflict has on our bodies and how may show itself
• an alternative understanding of conflict and what it means to be in conflict
• tools to respond to conflict - as you notice it in yourself or others
  

The course is participatory and experiential. You are welcome to participate in ways that work for you, and every part of it is optional.

Recordings: the sessions will be recorded in speaker view and the recordings and related materials made available to those who have registered for approx 6 months.

Dates and times:
Thursday, 16th May, 15:00 - 17:30 CEST // 2pm - 4.30pm BST (UK)
Thursday, 23rd May, 15:00 - 17:30 CEST // 2pm - 4.30pm BST (UK)
Thursday, 30th May 15:00 - 17:30 CEST // 2pm - 4.30pm BST (UK)
click here to find the time in your timezone

Money:
I work on a pay-what-you-can basis, allowing you to choose how much you are able to contribute to my livelihood. For more information on this approach and reflection questions to help determine what you may wish to give, see here: https://facilitating-light.weebly.com/on-money.html

You are welcome to make a financial contribution when you sign up, or in the course of the series :)

Ticket types:
As this is not a lecture, I need a certain number of folks to show up to the session in order for it to flow well. I know for myself that it's often tempting to skip live sessions of online courses that are recorded. Even more so if I haven't paid lots of money to be there for it. As this course is online and you are free to give what you can, I want to invite you to really consider whether or not you will be there for the live sessions, and commit to this as much as possible (of course, sometimes things happen beyond our control and that's fine!). That's why I'm offering two types of 'tickets': 'I plan to be there for the live sessions' and 'I'm fairly certain I won't be at the live sessions' (you'll get the recordings nonetheless). If you have any intention of coming to the live sessions, please select the first ticket type. If you don't have any intention of coming to the live sessions, please select the second ticket type. You can always still change your mind (you don't need to change your ticket type and it would be sweet if you could let me know). I'm hoping this will help me get a sense of how many people I can actually expect and plan for.

About the facilitator:
Jana Light (they/them) is an experienced facilitator and trainer, as well as mediator, working mostly with grassroot groups and NGOs. Jana works on incorporating somatic approaches into their work and more recently is focusing on supporting groups and individuals to navigate conflict differently. They are a certified Resilience Toolkit facilitator.
Jana lives in the Netherlands with one human, one cat and many plants, and will often be found drinking herbal tea and yearning to be in open water. You can learn more about them and their work here.

Please get in touch if you have any questions or concerns.