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Loving Conflict Practice Group
Fall Cohort: Online
Loving Conflict is a commitment to everyone having skills for relational care and transformation.
This 10 week practice group is a learning, unlearning, and practice space - in the lineage of Transformative Justice & Abolition - for folks wanting to build relational skills for tough moments.
We practice tools for co-creating understanding,
explore models of stress and inherited conflict patterns,
practice giving and receiving apologies,
navigate making new agreements in a relationship, and more.
Fall Cohort is now full!
Saturdays at 12pm ET for 10 weeks
Starting Sept 13th
90 min meetings
Online
$50 / week
Practice & participation focused
All weeks will be recorded for cohort use only
From Practice Group participants...
Mekdela Maskal: Fall 2024 cohort
Mekdela Maskal: Fall 2024 cohort
Mekdela Maskal: Fall 2024 cohort
Loving conflict showed me the power of relational group practice and affirmed me in my commitment to repair.
Through the practice group I was able to shift from resentment about my childhood conflict experiences into understanding the skills and strength that I developed through them.
Oli De Jesus: Spring 2024 cohort
Mekdela Maskal: Fall 2024 cohort
Mekdela Maskal: Fall 2024 cohort
Being able to hold 'love' and 'conflict' in the same sentence has been life altering.
As a traditionally conflict-averse person, I feel myself leaning into conflict more, feeling more curious and excited at the prospect of engaging in it.
With the loving conflict tools, conflict feels more demystified and approachable. I'm also less afrai
Being able to hold 'love' and 'conflict' in the same sentence has been life altering.
As a traditionally conflict-averse person, I feel myself leaning into conflict more, feeling more curious and excited at the prospect of engaging in it.
With the loving conflict tools, conflict feels more demystified and approachable. I'm also less afraid of making mistakes or getting messy in the process because there are tools for meeting/mending that too.
JJ Kingman, Winter 2025
Mekdela Maskal: Fall 2024 cohort
Grietje Evenwel: Spring 2025
We had an amazing cohort!
I really enjoyed the enthusiasm everyone had in showing up each week.
Joining Loving Conflict changed the way I perceive conflict and not shying away from it. But seeing it as transformative.
It’s helped me with all my relationships including my friends, coworkers and partner in building trust within the relationship and growing together.
Grietje Evenwel: Spring 2025
Mekdela Maskal: Fall 2024 cohort
Grietje Evenwel: Spring 2025
The tools we learned during the Loving Conflict practice sessions brought clarity and structure to what are often messy and complex situations. Walking away from the experience, I feel like I now carry a backpack full of practical tools I can turn to when tensions rise.
Does someone need space? What are they actually saying—versus what I
The tools we learned during the Loving Conflict practice sessions brought clarity and structure to what are often messy and complex situations. Walking away from the experience, I feel like I now carry a backpack full of practical tools I can turn to when tensions rise.
Does someone need space? What are they actually saying—versus what I think they’re saying? What parts of our history matter in understanding what's unfolding right now? How can I offer a genuine, heartfelt apology—one that takes full ownership of my part? Or, how do I ask for one when I need it?
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, and that’s okay. But having tools that allow us to navigate it with care and connection makes all the difference.
Spring 2025 participant
Alyssa Mittiga, Fall 2024 cohort
Spring 2025 participant
I wish everyone learned these skills in elementary school!
I joined this group because it was recommended to me, and had little idea what to expect. It far exceeded my expectations and I plan to join again. I will never look at relationships the same way.
Fall 2024 cohort
Alyssa Mittiga, Fall 2024 cohort
Spring 2025 participant
Loving Conflict is now one of my core daily practices. I use it in my partnership, with colleagues, in community, with family members... it has also guided me through my healing work to repair around major harms I've experienced.
The principles, the frameworks, the tools -all of it is so immediately implementable in a transformative way
Loving Conflict is now one of my core daily practices. I use it in my partnership, with colleagues, in community, with family members... it has also guided me through my healing work to repair around major harms I've experienced.
The principles, the frameworks, the tools -all of it is so immediately implementable in a transformative way. I am a more skillful and effective organizer because of them.
Alyssa Mittiga, Fall 2024 cohort
Alyssa Mittiga, Fall 2024 cohort
Alyssa Mittiga, Fall 2024 cohort
Moving through loving conflict with my community members has allowed us to deepen our transformative justice, village based work at an “everyday” pace.
I’ve noticed that we are able to “level up” collectively more often, now that folks have skills and practice at moving through hard challenges instead of moving around them.
This allows us
Moving through loving conflict with my community members has allowed us to deepen our transformative justice, village based work at an “everyday” pace.
I’ve noticed that we are able to “level up” collectively more often, now that folks have skills and practice at moving through hard challenges instead of moving around them.
This allows us to grow and transform collectively!
We recommend moving through this special work with fellow beloveds so practice can become integrated into collective rhythms.
Winter 2025 Cohort
Alyssa Mittiga, Fall 2024 cohort
Alyssa Mittiga, Fall 2024 cohort
This practice group has changed how I hold leadership at work, but has also deeply resourced my marriage.
Within a few weeks of Loving Conflict, I was bringing skills into team meetings and seeing the difference.
I have been in all kinds of groups weekly for the last 15 years and can say that this Loving Conflict group is one I recommend regularly.
Re-Membering Resilience Online
Zoom Meeting: link provided on registration
Our foundational Nervous System care immersion.
We discuss the Color Model, a nonhierarchical understanding of our body's stress responses through a critical power lens. We explore accessing more choice and freedom in our stress responses.
These 3 hr workshops are small group, discussion-focused explorations of common ways our nervous systems respond to stress & strain, with the goal of expanding more choice and agency.
We'll be a group with mixed experience, newcomers and repeaters, all welcome. All participants receive the Re-Membering Resilience E-book, complete with several pages of self-led somatic practices for stress care.
Sliding scale mutual aid spots available--message us.
Loving Conflict Series
Harvest Season Practice Group
Learning, unlearning, and practice group for south Yuba river community wanting to build skill and remember ritual with conflict.
We will be combining somatic practice, earth guided ritual, and embodied inquiry with discussion.
Our goal is for each person to grow their conflict capacity in the ways they identify at the beginning of our cohort.
Char & Mekdela Maskal co-facilitating with support from Claire Potin
We start in September
This cohort gathers 12 times, 90 mins each.
Alternating virtual and in-person sessions in Nevada City or Grass Valley
Light nourishment will be provided for in person sessions
Exchange is invited on a sliding scale, $350 - $800 ($29-$67 a session)
by invitation only
This cohort is a hybrid online and in-person group
for Grass Valley / Nevada city beloveds: by invitation only.
Series with Char Kasza & Julia Taylor
next offering is in August
Holding on to hurt - that we caused or that we experienced - is like tensing a muscle.
The tension pulls on everything around it, limiting movement, breath, and ease.
Practicing myofascial release invites hydration, movement, and integration into our tissues - and opens up the possibilities of apologies doing the same thing in our relationships.
When genuine apology is offered, it’s like applying gentle attention to that knot, allowing it to soften and create space. The nervous system shifts from bracing into relief, making room for new possibilities.
Apologies can feel like releasing a deep knot in the body.
This is a hands-on, experiential practice workshop combining myofascial massage techniques with apology skills.
Expect to interact in-depth and to give & receive live feedback. We'll have plenty of tea & snacks, and move at the pace that our group co-creates.
With Julia & Char
Tremor Practice Club
A 1-hr community space for folks who have completed one or more tremor workshops or sessions with Char, Sabrina, or Julia.
At Tremor Practice club, we
- tremor together, share tea, and journal/share in small groups
- learn new ways to interact with our tremors
- get support from experienced practitioners to move through any stuck points or challenges with our tremor practice.
Have you learned to tremor before, but want a refresher?
Perhaps you have a home tremor practice - but are looking for ways to expand or deepen your experience.
Practice club is not for first-time learners of tremor - come join us at an intro workshop or immersion instead.
Some Previous Offerings
Emergent Somatic Practice: Weekend with Sage Hayes
At Yaad Wellness
Emergent Somatic Practice is a collaborative learning weekend for a multidisciplinary group of body-based practitioners who want to practice the commitment that: when the intention is to heal, the body shows the way.
A chance to build capacity for the intangibles, the intuitive, the intentional in our sessions.
It's an invitation beyond the practitioner's brain, into a wider aperture for what wants to emerge in work with clients. We'll be a multidisciplinary group of healing practitioners who want to expand collaborative possibilities and lean out of the dominant role.
Resilience Toolkit: Skills for Healers
With Tenth House Health
3-hr practice-focused immersion in a set of somatic tools healers can implement to create more trauma-informed sessions.
Let's try Nervous System Language that makes sense - and that we can share easily with clients to increase choice and agency in our sessions.
Let's hold power dynamics in sessions with more skill and transparency.
Let's incorporate neurogenic tremoring as a care tool for ourselves as practitioners.
Bodies are a Web of Choice & Freedom: Philly
A day of somatic learning and exploration w Julia & Char.
We discuss the Circle Model, a nonhierarchical understanding of our body's stress responses through a critical power lens. We explore accessing more choice and freedom in our stress responses. Then, using myofascial release principles, we practice freeing fascia's patterns of stuckness.
After lunch, we practice the body's natural ability to tremor - to increase embodied freedom!
Loving Conflict Practice Group
Loving Conflict is a commitment to everyone having the skills for transformation through difficult relational moments.
This 9 week practice group is a learning, unlearning, and practice space - in the lineage of Transformative Justice & Abolition - for folks wanting to build skill with conflict.
Freeing Fascia w/ Julia: Philly
Intro to Therapeutic Tremor: Manhattan
Julia and Char co-facilitate an embodied practice workshop that introduces self-massage techniques based on myofascial principles and supports us to track shifts in our nervous system through the fascial & muscular release.
Julia offers nearly 30 years of anatomy study along with training in Upledger Craniosacral Therapy, Barral’s Visceral and Neural Manipulation, Alignment Yoga, Myofascial Release, and Somatic Experiencing.
Intro to Therapeutic Tremor: Manhattan
Intro to Therapeutic Tremor: Manhattan
We start by mapping our nervous system states and trying out several simple tools to help us move between states.
Then, we focus practice time on building comfort and skill with the body's inherent stress-care response: tremoring.
Learn & practice the therapeutic tremor to increase embodied freedom. Experience the inherent skills our bodies have to reduce chronic stress load.
Co-facilitated with Sabrina Hayeem-Ladani
Nervous System Immersion 2: Philly
In-depth, discussion based workshop exploring the Red and Purple nervous system states. Group and individual practice of the resilience tools list, then generous time exploring and building comfort with the therapeutic tremor.
This is part two of the Circle Model nervous system immersion 1, which is a required pre-requisite.
Hosted at The Sanctuary
Circle Model: Nervous system immersion 1
Online
These 3 hr classes are a chance to somatically experience the nervous system through a systems & power lens.
We map our own systems, and work with a 2-page list of somatic tools to help shift nervous system states.
Nervous System Immersion 1: Philly
Loving Conflict Practitioner Training
These 3 hr workshops are small group, discussion-focused explorations of common ways our nervous systems respond to stress & strain, with the goal of expanding more choice and agency.
Join to somatically experience the nervous system through a systems & power lens.
We map our own systems, and work with a 2-page list of somatic tools to help shift nervous system states.
Loving Conflict Practitioner Training
Loving Conflict Practitioner Training
Loving Conflict Practitioner Training
This group is a learning, unlearning, and practice space for practitioners wanting to build skill with facilitating conflict.
We combine somatic practice and embodied inquiry with reading & discussion. Loving Conflict is rooted in abolitionist, & transformative justice principles.
Loving Conflict practitioner training is a commitment to more of us having the skills to support others' transformation through difficult
relational moments.
Nervous System Immersion 1: Hudson
Loving Conflict Practitioner Training
Nervous System Immersion 1: Hudson
These 3 hr workshops are small group, discussion-focused explorations of common ways our nervous systems respond to stress & strain, with the goal of expanding more choice and agency.
Join to somatically experience the nervous system through a systems & power lens.
We map our own systems, and work with a 2-page list of somatic tools to help shift nervous system states.
Resilience Toolkit Intro: Athens
Loving Conflict Practitioner Training
Nervous System Immersion 1: Hudson
3-hour workshop based on the Resilience toolkit and the Circle model of the nervous system. Join to:
- Map your body’s nervous systems patterns and practice more choice & regulation
- Learn simple stress care tools (“The Resilience Toolkit”) & practice in community
- Learn & practice the therapeutic tremor to increase embodied freedom
- Experience the inherent skills our bodies have to reduce chronic stress load