Conflict is natural, and can happen even in the most well organized garden group or with the best of friends. How can we hold space for and resolve conflict within our groups? In these monthly sessions, mediators Skye Roper-Moses and Michelle Jackson will facilitate discussion circles for community gardeners to bring their challenges to the group and collectively generate solutions. The facilitators will model skills for holding space that gardeners can bring back to their own groups to begin to develop a practice for addressing and transforming conflict in the garden.
How this series works:
This participatory virtual series begins with a one-hour orientation on September 9, from 5:30pm-6:30pm, that we ask everyone to attend. After orientation, there will be three two-hour monthly sessions. You can attend one, two, or all three of these sessions - attending all three is encouraged, but not required.
Session 1 Theme: Sharing Space (Sept. 23)
Session 2 Theme: TBD (Oct. 21)
Session 3 Theme: TBD (Nov. 18)
These webinars will be interactive and we encourage everyone's participation. We will not be recording.
About the Facilitators
Michelle Jackson: Community Gardener since 2008. Columbia University MS in Negotiation & Conflict Resolution, Earth Institute Fellow. Facilitator. Environmental & public space enthusiast.
Skye Roper-Moses: Adjunct professor at John Jay College. Conflict coach and mediator. Formerly Restorative Justice Coordinator at New York Peace Institute. Columbia University MS in Negotiation & Conflict Resolution.
