Generative Conflict Coaching Lab for School Crisis Leaders

August 12, 18, 26 and September 9, 2024

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT • 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT • 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET

An essential element in school crisis recovery and renewal is growing our skills to navigate repair when there has been rupture. Crisis is rupture, creates rupture, and thrives off of rupture. Leading school communities requires us to sit knowing how to navigate and move with harm, apology, and conflict.

Join the Radicle Root Collective & SCRR for an invite only, collaborative community of practice series as we reflect on our relationship to conflict, explore generative conflict practices and how to better embody these restorative practices within school communities.

This is a coaching cohort specifically for teamwork; we encourage you to attend with at least one other person from your same workplace or a shared project.

Note: we are capping this community of practice to 18 participants! First come first served.
Registration is closed.

Objectives

Participants will make meaning of generative conflict in the context of their leadership.
Participants will use generative conflict reflection and assessment tools to identify where they can both personally and as a school community grow
Will be able to identify action items on how they can use these tools in their leadership, or introduce into their school communities

What might you get?

Inner work: using storytelling, and somatic visualization, you will be encouraged to reflect and interrogate your own relationship to conflict and assess where you deepen your understanding and practice of generative conflict through intersectional identities.
Interpersonal work: Using your own past or current interpersonal conflicts as practice ground, you will make meaning of and try on generative conflict practices with peer support.
Systemic work: Using a generative conflict group assessment tool developed by RRC and SCRR, you will be invited to reflect on the current culture of conflict in your work group, school or team you lead and encourage to develop action steps to help deepen your community’s practices.

Each session will be a combination of content + learning and reflection + meaning making.

You’ll receive access to a generative conflict facilitator guide for the assessment tool, our SCRR x RRC generative conflict group assessment tool, all PDFs of the decks for each session, and other materials to support your journey.

Here is an overview of our four sessions together:

Week one: Grounding & Intentions

Monday, 8/12/24 ~ 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT • 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT • 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET

During the first session, we will spend time grounding into the space, connecting with the cohort, as well as reviewing some of the key terms and ideas around generative conflict, and practices.
What is my personal relationship to conflict right now? What intentions am I bringing to this space to bring back to my school community?

Week Two: Exploring our Tools

Monday, 8/19/24 ~ 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT • 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT • 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET

We will be spending time with the rubric, facilitation guide and other materials related to the practices to assess where our personal school communities are at, and identify practices to focus on.
What are examples of conflict/crisis that I have experienced in my personal life? What are examples that my school community has gone through?

Week Three: Making it Intimate

Monday, 8/26/24 ~ 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT • 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT • 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET

During this session, we will continue workshopping our personal vignettes/ examples of conflict, and trying different practices. This will be a time to explore what it really costs, or takes to make space for generative conflict and restorative practices in our communities.
What are things I need to try on/ or change to make space for more generative conflict in my life? What are practices that my school community could shift towards being more generative?

Week Four: Closing Space

Monday, 8/26/24 ~ 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. PT • 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. CT • 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET

During our final session, this will be space for participants to reflect on the learnings throughout the process, and continue to ask the cohort final questions and advice.
Participants will be leaving with some key action items to bring back to their school communities with their duo/ small team.
What are the practices I want to focus on with my school community? What is a shift I am committed to making in my personal growth with conflict?

Frequently Asked Questions

Who should sign up? We’re looking for committed pairs/small groups (e.g., 2-3 people) who represent/ hold across differences to represent your team, organization, or collaborative effort. We strongly recommend you to attend in teams or minimally with a colleague with whom you collaboratively lead. We have limited spots available & we encourage BIPOC leaders to the front!
Do we have to attend all four sessions? Please! Or at minimum, at least one person from your team should be present at all four sessions. We strongly recommend registering and attending ALL four parts to receive the maximum benefit of practicing live and with others.
Do we have to have gone through conflict or crisis with each other? No! This work is also preventative. And, it’s 2024. Who hasn’t experienced some kind of ouch and needed to oops at some point?
Are there CEs offered? – Yes, four (4) CE Contact Hours will be available and be offered at no-cost for LCSW, MFT, LPCC, LEP, CCAPP & RN licenses. Participation will be monitored, you must be present for the entire duration to be eligible for credit. A link will be shared at the conclusion of the training to access.
Anything else I should know? We are encouraging participants who have a willingness to be on camera and engage in conversation with peers throughout the series.
Do we register together as a team or individually? Please have each team member register individually. There will be a registration question that asks you to share your team members’ names.
I have more questions. Who do I contact? Email us at at scrr@cars-rp.org

Priming Resource

Cultivating Conflict Culture After a Crisis

Faculty

Rinne-Julie Früster (they/them), Member, Radicle Root Collective

Rinne-Julie is a Queer, Biracial, Black & Afro-Peruana Femme passionate about collective care and healing. Originally from Hartford County Connecticut, Rinne-Julie first got into Social Justice and Equity based education work in 2014 during their undergraduate career. Since then, they have worked in a variety of school systems, nonprofit, and corporate settings, developing curriculum, workshops, resources and facilitations on topics ranging from introductory DEI frameworks, internalized white supremacy culture, and antiracism work. When they approach racialized healing work, they make a point to focus less on marginalized identities re-living/re-telling their trauma for the sake of educating the majority, and recenter liberation practices and imaginative spaces.