The Magic of Co-creation: Power, Process, and Conflict in Groups | Workshop | Vancouver, B.C.

All over the world people are coming together to create change, organizing without top-down leadership or hierarchies, working together to create everything from community gardens to media to new ways of living and working together, even in traditional work places! Such circles can be enormously creative and empowering, but they can also be cumbersome and heavy with conflict. We weren’t raised to live and work in groups. But it’s never too late for change, right??

Starhawk draws on four decades of experience in circles and collectives to show us how to foster connection, positive power, and clear communication in our groups and ourselves. We’ll use the tools of magic, meditation, trance, and ritual to explore issues of personal and social power. We’ll look at ways to create nurturing and healing group structures, to deal with difficult people, and embrace constructive conflict. We’ll raise and focus group energy to celebrate our connectedness and nurture resilient communities…

This workshop is a wonderful introduction to/reminder about working and living in groups whose vision and mandate is finding the best solutions for a healthy, supportive environment for all of us.