Please join us for a workshop led by Briana Herman-Brand, MSW to help you grow your capacity to navigate conflict in ways that strengthen relationships, improve team cohesiveness, and free up your power to make the impacts you most care about.
Conflict is a part of life. It’s what tells us that there is a gap between what we want and what we are experiencing. At its best, it is an opportunity to learn more deeply about ourselves and others and to create new, more healing ways of relating, working, and living together. At its worst, it becomes destructive and harmful. Most of us have ample experience with destructive forms of conflict – both in our intimate circles and in the world we’re surrounded by. And yet, we can build our skills to approach conflict directly and humanely, we can truly deepen our connections and commitments to each other and find freedom from the incredible drain that unhealthy conflict can be on our lives and communities.
Briana spent the past 20 years exploring and implementing transformative and restorative justice processes that center relationships – inviting healing and accountability for folks on all sides of conflict and harm. She has found that when we can listen for areas of mutual interest, rooted in empathy for each other, we can cultivate the kind of safety, belonging, and dignity from which meaningful repair becomes possible.
EVENT DETAILS:
When: March 18, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: Zoom (we’ll send you the link the day before the event)
Who: LT alumni, Honorary LT, LT’22 class Members, LT applicants, and guests
Cost: Sliding Scale, pay what you are able: $50 - $150. Scholarships are available for alumni at request. To request a scholarship, email Megan@leadershiptomorrowseattle.org
Briana Herman-Brand, MSW, has been working with youth and adults for 20 years to heal and transform the root causes and impacts of trauma and oppression. Through training, facilitation, and coaching she supports individuals and communities to build skills at the intersections of healing and justice. She is a Lead Teacher with the organization, Generative Somatics, where she teaches courses nationally on trauma healing and embodied leadership for educators, counselors, and social justice leaders. Since 2003, Briana has worked in King County public schools and non-profits, supporting youth to interrupt cycles of violence while building collective power and dignity. For the past 6 years, Briana has been sharing her Trauma-Informed Practice/Healing Justice framework with providers who want to increase the power and sustainability of their work. Briana has worked extensively in the fields of domestic and sexual violence, White anti-racism, LGBTQ experience, transformative/restorative justice, and community organizing.
In 2015, Briana realized her dream of becoming a parent. She is now challenged on a daily basis to apply the principles of healing justice to the “youthwork” of parenting.