Loving Conflict Practice Group

Loving Conflict is a commitment to everyone having the skills for transformation through difficult relational moments. 

This 10 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. 

Practice groups run 4x a year

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. 

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. 

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!

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. 

90 min workshop to practice a super practical, effective somatic tool for embodied freedom: therapeutic tremor.  

At tremor practice workshop we: 

• chart our bodies' responses to stress and strain
• observe and try on ways to engage our tremor 
• tremor together, share tea, and journal/share in small groups
• get support from an experienced practitioner to move through any stuck points or challenges with our tremor practice. 

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 

Philly: The Sanctuary

Manhattan: Balance Arts Center

Hudson: Sadhana 

Catskill: Yaad Wellness

Athens: Tenth House Health 

These 3 hr classes introduce shared language for the common ways our bodies tend to express stress , through a systems & power lens. 

We map our own systems, and work with a 2-page list of somatic tools to increase our agency, choice, and flexibility under stress.

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.