Pathway Through Conflict
Three-Day Practice Seminar
February 6 - 8, 2025
Episcopal Retreat and Conference Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
Today, humanity faces overwhelming global challenges. Our greatest challenge, however, is our inability to work together. We have deeply ingrained habits of rivalry, competition, and scarcity. Many individuals actively seek ways to handle conflicts differently but need to develop the confidence and techniques that will work.
Acquiring reliable conflict resolution skills requires a deliberate journey and sustained practice. This three-day workshop will allow you to engage differences and to experience how conflict can be transformed into creativity.
FEEDBACK, POINTING OUT AND PRACTICE
This training is based on action-learning: learning by doing in a feedback-rich environment. It is highly experiential and engages the group in dialogue and exercises to awaken our understanding and capacity to work with challenging occasions, turning them to opportunities for deeper bonding and growth.
This experience weaves in live demonstrations and unique “pointing out” instructions, making the subtle group dynamics more visible to everyone. Like a sports team reviewing the last play on the sidelines, you will have the opportunity to freeze frame and zoom in and out of the group dynamics.
Lastly, because this is a training environment you will have opportunities to practice facilitating group conversations and receive real-time coaching and feedback from your lead trainers, coaches, and peers.
SKILLS YOU WILL ENGAGE
- Developing embodied awareness of how conflict impacts our nervous system
- Practicing self-regulation techniques and helping others regulate
- Opening dialogue and identifying issues and perspectives
- Questioning, listening, and reflecting to ease tension
- Placing challenges to spark progress and insight
- Channeling strong emotions to foster deeper connections
- Exploring polarities to encourage flexibility
- Navigating one-up-one-down power dynamics effectively
WE WILL PRIORITIZE
- Seeing clearly over group think
- Creative tension over polarization
- Meaningful expression over policing of speech
- Flex flow over identity politics
- Productive over damaging conflict
- Human contact rather than ideology
YOU WILL RECEIVE
- 24 hours of live instruction, practice, and Q&A with gifted facilitator Diane Musho Hamilton and the Real LIFE Team
- Live demonstrations with real-time commentary to make group dynamics visible
- Sessions to practice group facilitation and receive real-time coaching and feedback
- Access to mp3 audio files of all teaching sessions
LOGISTICS
February 6 - 8, 2025
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
Episcopal Retreat and Conference Center
75 S 200 E, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84111
Information about on-site lodging will be provided after registration.
YOUR COMMITMENT
You must be able to participate in 100% of the program (no stepping out to take a work call, etc).
Registration
PRICE
$2,199 USD
Early Registration $1,899 until January 6, 2025
Partial financial assistance may be available for people under thirty, people with an adverse currency exchange against the U.S. dollar, or people in life transitions, in each case with financial need.
REFUND POLICY
Course fees are refundable 30 days before the scheduled event starts, less a 15% administrative fee. When a written request is received 29-14 days before the event starts, there will be a 50% refund. There are no refunds for withdrawals less than 14 days before the event starts unless your space fills from a waitlist. In that case, 50% of your program fee will be refunded.
Program Staff
Diane Musho Hamilton
I am a mediator and a meditator. Mediation deepens our relationship to oneness; mediation puts it into action. I was the Director of Dispute Resolution for the Judiciary in Utah, mediating many kinds of matters, but was recognized for my skills in facilitating the more difficult conversations. I enjoy the intimacy of conflict, and its creative potential. I began to work with Ken Wilber in 2004, and for fifteen years held transformative containers for many people interested in their own development. I teach meditation in the Soto lineage of Zen. I’ve written three books, most recently Compassionate Conversations with Gabriel Wilson and Kimberly Loh.
Angella Okawa
I work with individuals and organizations to build capacity to practice deep
belonging and being with difference. My background is in tech, startups, and
design thinking. I also work with trauma, culture and identity, bringing a unique
perspective. I am a certified Integral Coach, a licensed Marriage and Family
Therapist (LMFT) and a 20-year meditation practitioner. I’m trained in The Hakomi Method and Re-Creation of the Self. I love to visit friends and family in Japan, learn Japanese, play in the garden with my 3-year-old nephew, hike, and read books with a warm beverage. My favorite word is Liminality.
Kirk Eklund
I am the founder and lead designer of Inkfish Ideas, working at the intersection of Innovation and Belonging since 2014. I specialize in using Design Thinking to help teams and organizations reimagine how they tackle complex problems and use the same methodology for leadership development and program design. Combining my work as an executive coach at Stanford’s d.school with my learning in National Equity Project’s leadership program, and the Real LIFE Facilitation Program, I provide an energetic and unique approach in support of equitable innovation.
Valerie Joseph
I am the AEMES (Achieving Excellence in Math Engineering and Science) Mentoring Administrative Director at Smith College. I have a Ph.D. in anthropology and graduate degrees in Movement Therapy and Social Justice Education. I am the founder of Grounded Space Consulting, an organization that convenes public conversations by marginalized people and about marginalized topics. I love to bring people's truths to conversations with the loving intention of growth and healing. I fervently believe in the power of "both/and."
Brian Lim
I completed an MA and LMFT, and I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist and Teacher, Re-Creation of the Self (RCS) facilitator, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. I am in private practice serving adults and couples. My work weaves together multiple therapeutic approaches, including Neuro-affective Touch, Recreation of the Self (RCS), EDMR, Trauma-to-Dharma, Somatica, and a lens of cross-cultural awareness throughout my practice.
TRAVEL & LODGING INFORMATION
The venue for the Pathway Through Conflict is the Episcopal Retreat and Conference Center, 75 South 200 East, in downtown Salt Lake City. Many hotels are nearby. If you are searching AirBnB, listings downtown and in "The Avenues" will be fruitful.
On-site lodging is available in the Hospitality Wing of the ERCC, ranging from $47.50/night for a shared room and bath to $100/night for a single. Lodging information and options will be provided after registration.
Please arrange flights to arrive in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, February 5. Departing flights can be booked on Sunday, February 9. The airport is about 20 minutes from the venue. Most airlines require check-in 2 hours before flight time.