Conflict Analysis Retreat 2023

The Conflict Analysis retreat is a six-hour event for organizers, leaders, mediators, coaches, therapists, and more--anyone who is interested in deepening their understanding and analysis skills of conflict. Within the retreat, participants will examine fictional scenarios and engage with tools to support empathy building, understand and map power dynamics, investigate the scale of the harm, and discuss the choice points available throughout the conflict.

Alumni Reflection: "I have never been to a conflict training where I felt so witnessed, and have had a thorough breakdown of power, harm, and conflict. Y'all are brilliant - thank you so much for sharing with us, and for your work!"

This one day retreat will be held Friday June 23rd, 2023; and Friday October 13th, 2023; both dates of the retreat will take place from 8:30am-3:30pm PST / 9:30am-4:30pm MST / 11:30am-6:30pm EST with a 1 hour break from 11:30am-12:30pm PST/ 12:30pm-1:30pm MST/ 2:30pm-3:30pm EST.

To purchase your ticket, scroll down to view sliding scale payment options. A guide to our sliding scale pricing: If you are a resourced formal institution, like a school, foundation, business, or nonprofit with a budget of over $1M, we ask that you pay at the top of our sliding scale options. This helps to subsidize our ability to provide at cost services to informal community based organizations and student groups with small budgets, who we invite to pay at the lower end of our sliding scale. Somewhere in the middle lie small and medium nonprofits, conferences and events, advocacy groups, etc, where we will follow your lead on the budget you have available for professional development, continuing education, and/or community engagement.

Alumni Reflection: "I loved how much time we got to spend in small groups with the same people. I learned a lot from my breakout! I also liked applying tools to the hypothetical situation, because play/practice is important to me. It was easier to understand when we had an opportunity to apply the content and debrief it together. I also think the facilitators dropped a lot of wisdom in the big group lecture areas, and that the content was available pre-session, so I had time to both read on my own and listen in real time."

Access: This retreat is held on zoom with closed captions (let us know if you need closed captions in your breakout room as well). Facilitators can provide image descriptions, and consistently read all of the text on the slides. The retreat is currently in English (if you would like to access this retreat in another language email [email protected] letting us know which language since we are working on increasing our language justice and accessibility infrastructure for future programming). Before the retreat itself we provide an agenda and overview of what to expect as well as a safety and care plan to fill out and plan how you will practice before and after care for the space (and in your facilitation in the future!) During the retreat you will be in breakouts with other participants, and can choose how much you would or wouldn't like to share - having your video on is optional and we encourage you to do what you need to take care of yourself throughout the time including eating, laying down, stimming, fidgeting etc. At the beginning of the retreat as well as on the platform in advance we will share our process for addressing harm within the retreat, and we encourage you to name if you experience something that reinforces oppression or harm so we can take steps to collectively address the situation. You will be in the same small group breakout for nearly the entire retreat, and in your first breakout space you will be invited to introduce yourself, share how you are entering the space as well as your access needs for the day. Once the retreat is complete the slides will be shared for continued reference on this platform alongside additional resources and references to learn more. If you register and end up not being able to attend, you are welcome to come to the next time we hold the retreat, or we can reimburse you. If you have questions about other access needs or logistics for the space you can email [email protected] with the subject "Conflict Analysis Retreat Question"

Alumni Reflection: "Spring Up has great facilitators! They made a warm, welcoming space and provided clear explanations and personal examples. The material is awesome and your wisdom and insights into people and organizations is amazing."