

10-weeks Creating Soul Space Community
Crisis = an opportunity for initiation

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness. . . Be grateful for your difficulties & challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact , . . Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. personal growth, individuation & self-actualization.
c g jung


Deep roots ground us.
Instead of rushing to resolve or simply trying to contain damage, conflict transformation practitioners focus on repairing systemic power imbalances & healing broken relationships [in a sustainable ecological approach].
melody stanform martin
Who is this path for? All of us.



Helping people heal.
This free offering is designed to help people heal as they find safe passage and learn to navigate our time. Designed to help you meet and get to know others as much as to know and understand yourself, this is a place and course to return to process the suffering of your past.
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Remember Community through conflict.
Soul Space is a place for you to drop deep, heal wounds, create positive change & make friends. More than anything, this is a place of soulful community & this offering is designed to cultivate community by recognizing that conflict happens.
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Creating Partnerships in cooperation & collaboration
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Fostering Intimacy through compassionate & safe vulnerability
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Forming Groups with skills designed to channel conflict into growth
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Teaching Conflict Resolution Skills that can be applied in many situations
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Guiding Visualizations used to help self-regulate yourself, partner & group
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Charting Strategies for ongoing structural & systemic change
The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond.
c g jung

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Why now? (Really, where are you & can I come live in your reality?)



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Conflict changes all of us
Conflict is a part of life, a renewable & reliable resource to leverage for change. Yet, conflict can also be destructive, so facilitating its transformation is essential.


The apparently unendurable conflict is proof of the rightness of your life. A life without contradiction is only half a life; or else a life in the Beyond.
c g jung

Support is available for help with ongoing issues or to report abuse.

10 weeks to deep (er) transformation

Week 1. Introduction & Orientation
What is deep conflict transformation?
Week 2. Crisis as Opportunity
How can the transcendent function transform?
Week 3. Turning Point
How can crisis be a turning or change point?
Week 4. New Perspective
What is our & and new vision of conflict?
Week 5. Transformative Potential
What are the conflicts ready to transform in you?
Week 6. Family Conflict
What are the conflicts transforming your family?
Week 7. Community Conflict
What conflicts are transforming your community?
Week 8. Cultural Conflict
What cultural elements are calling out to transform?
Week 9. Global Conflict
What is a global conflict that is ready to transform?
Week 10. Rippling Out
11. (to infinity & beyond) Land-Based Ecological Conflict
Our human relationship to the land literally underlies all other conflicts. So, it gets a bigger box!
Explore eco-relationship
How are you in conflict with the land. This can show up as an incongruence or point of dissonance between your abstract & lived values or an inherited belief or bias.
Write, Draw & Doodle
To get to your underlying eco-issues, write in stream of consciousness & go back to illustrate it in whatever way works for you.

Dreams & the earth
Look to your dreams & journal the elements that speak to the voice of the earth. What is said, implied, personified or symbolized? Feel into it with color & art.
Earth Art as Eco-Ritual
Relate to the earth in ritual to express gratitude, pray, make amends, offer back or deeply listen to the earth in conflict.



Nature
Land-Based
People
Community-Centered
Heather
Trauma-Informed
More nightmares need dreamwork.

Dream Journal
Begin to record your dreams
Befriending Nightmares
Turn toward your fear


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This is your ceremony.


Circling Up




Structure: You are held in CIRCLE



Circle of ONE
you, soul & the world (also soul)
Circle Together
made of family, friends or?
Community CIRCLE
from Soul Space to the world


There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Talk to Children
Connect the generations in a circle of sustained integrity.
Listen to Them
Hear young voices to meet & understand their needs.
Mentor Them
Teaching OUR children through lived values & time.
Honor Them
Legacy is our love for our children alive in the world.

This does NOT have to be hard.

Make Your Impact

Nature is alive


Envision your future

Return to your archetypal roots

A power instrument
Create a necklace
Make a symbolic image
Create a drum
Make a power instrument
Create a rattle
Tell your story your way


You create a power circle

You are telling your story

Open to the wisdom of lineage & land.
