“how we are on the small scale is how we are on the large scale.”
– adrienne maree brown

At a time when we are witnessing multiple and intersecting conflicts and violences around the world, we must learn to navigate conflict within our own communities and intimate relationships with care and compassion.

How can we approach conflict as a site of connection, not only rupture, in our everyday lives? How can we cultivate spaces where we can engage with conflict in generative ways, where difference transforms into dialogue, and where tension becomes creative possibility?
Through gentle movement and grounding practices, as well as arts-based prompts, reflective writing, and storytelling, we will explore our own relationship to conflict and experiment with ways of holding tension and turning fracture into possibility.

No prior art-marking experience is necessary – only an open heart and an open mind with a readiness to give and receive vulnerability. This playshop centres process over product, offering a spacious, low-pressure environment to think, feel, and make together in these uncertain times.