Oak Trees in a Storm: Growing our Skills for Generative Conflict

Exploring the concept of generative conflict and the impact of racialized grief and trauma in the escalation of conflict in our school crisis leadership

August 3 and August 10, 2022

9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET

Online via Zoom

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.

That’s why we’re thrilled to partner with the Radicle Root Collective, an amazing team of facilitators, coaches, and data experts that each bring their unique magic together to support organizational healing and transformation. In this special two-part institute in the summer, we engage in deep learning, inquiry and strategy practice.

What might you get?  

• Oak Trees in a Storm is designed based on the premise that conflict is a natural part of a group’s experience together. 
• You are invited to explore the concept of generative conflict and the impact of racialized grief and trauma in the escalation of conflict. 
• You will also be offered space to practice strategies for moving conflict into a generative pathway rather than a destructive one. 
  • Inner work: This is accomplished first through exploring participants’ own relationship with conflict through the lens of their racial and other intersectional identities. 
  • Outer work: We then shift outward to looking at the current culture of conflict in your work group and/or team. 
• We end our institute by providing tangible strategies that can be used in the moment when conflict arises and that ultimately can be used to shift the team/groups conflict culture into one that is generative. 

What will we ask of you? 

As part of this Institute, participants can expect to do deep self-reflection, engage in affinity based and cross racial dialogues and practice using embodiment exercises, visualizations and scenario work. 

Participants will be asked to complete a self-assessment prior to the first session and do 1-2 hours of reading and journaling during the week between the two institutes.

Learning Objectives

1. Define generative conflict and articulate the role of the nervous system and trauma in escalating conflict in one’s work and personal life
2. Use storytelling and reflection to explore one’s own reaction and approach to conflict through the lens of their racial and intersectional identities
3. Identify and practice strategies for creating a culture of generative conflict in groups and teams
4. Move from the “I” to the “We” to assess the group or team’s conflict culture using RRC’s Group Conflict Culture Assessment (adapted with SCRR for school leadership)

Frequently Asked Questions

• Can I attend with a or as part of a team? We strongly recommend you to attend in teams or minimally with a colleague with whom you collaboratively lead. 
• Is this offering eligible for Continuing Education Hours (CEH)? Yes! 4.0 CEHs are available for participants that attend both days. At the end of the second day, participants will receive the CEH registration information. We cannot offer partial credit.
• Will closed captions be provided? Zoom generates automated captions and a transcript that participants can enable during the training.
• Will this offering be recorded? The recording will only be available to participants.
• Who can I contact if I have additional questions? Email us at scrr [at] cars-rp.org with “Oak Trees in a Storm” in the subject line.

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