WELCOME TO THE SUMMIT

Journey

We’ve hosted the first guided journey from the 15th June to 15th July 2020.

This is now a self paced, self guided journey available to anyone anywhere. Please visit the gifting page to understand our invitation to a gift culture and consider supporting this work as we continue to evolve and build community around this theme.

NB You will find the password to the Journey Pages in the weekly information emails you will get from info@conflicttransformationsummit.org.

Together with the recorded interviews, you will find the recordings of a range of live events that took place during the guided summit. Here are the different strands which you can access in each of the 5 stages:

  • Pre-recorded conversations: we've talked with more than 40 guests who offered us their views on conflict from a diversity of perspectives and contexts. These videos will be available each Monday at 11am (UTC), after the summit begins and remain so, so that you can access them whenever you want.

  • Online live sessions recordings: there were a wide range of different sessions throughout the journey like the Friday's co-sensing sessions and the weekly cafés which offered spaces to meet up and explore questions and engage in conversations that matter most to participants. There’s an ongoing range of offers from organisers, partners and guest speakers, inviting you to explore and practice some of the approaches mentioned in the conversations track. Check the shared calendar and the online community to participate in these (info on the emails following registration).

  • Communal Journey: all participants are welcome to invite a small group of family, friends, neighbours, community, team or colleagues and use the recorded conversations and exercises offered in each stage. Visit the ‘get involved’ page to find how to be involved in hosting groups and make the summit’s journey together.

  • Action Research Groups: There has been a spontaneous clustering of inquiry groups who desire to explore common questions through action research kinds of practices. You will be able to find these in the online community.

 
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STAGE 1

Grounding

Welcoming and opening the container for the journey:

Getting ready, looking at the schedule for the different stages you’ll be going through and making space for a deeper inquiry. 

There is a guide for hosts to resource those who want to invite others to make the journey together.

 
We shall be known by the company we keep
By the ones who circle round to tend these fires
We shall be known by the ones who sow and reap
The seeds of change, alive from deep within the earth
It is time now, it is time now that we thrive
It is time we lead ourselves into the well
— MaMuse
 
 
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STAGE 2

Falling Apart

Looking into the cracks of our relationships with ourselves, with each other and with the world.  

Inquiring into the ways in which we think and respond to tensions and conflicts that generate results nobody wants, keeping us stuck in pathologies of destruction.

 
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack
A crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in
— Leonard Cohen
 
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STAGE 3

Nurturing the Soil

Sharing ways of thinking and being in the world that can hold tensions and conflicts in ways that support the emergence of more healthy and regenerative cultures. 

 
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
 
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STAGE 4

Seeding the Future

Introducing practices that can develop the capabilities in us to respond to tensions and conflicts in ways that are more healthy and regenerative.

 
The future enters into us,
in order to transform itself in us,
long before it happens.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
 
 
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STAGE 5

Emerging Pathways

Tap into the meaning of your experience of the summit’s journey. 

Harvesting the insights and learning that emerged throughout the summit. 

 
 
 
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