Kaleidoscope on Conflict Resolution: Part 2
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This gathering was co-led by Karine and Amber as an opportunity to gather around the virtual fire so to explore the theme of conflict (and cultural perspectives on conflict resolution and repair in relationship), and how this might incorporate shared values we hold for how we want to engage around such topics interpersonally and communally. What culture around conflict do we wish to embody, and what could we imagine the fruits of this to be for the world? Into this exploration we’ll weave in wisdom and examples from indigenous communities as opportunities for self/communal reflection. We’re also asking, what are some examples of accountability processes that don't exclude people from the human family?
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Karine Bell makes her home with her two kids, her partner and a dog.
She’s a somatics teacher and abolitionist, dedicated to embodied trauma
alchemy. A bi-cultural black woman, she’s also a culturally reflexive anthropologist exploring the intersection of where our bodies/psyches/experiences meet our collective histories.
She believes in the healing made possible at the personal and collective level by the work we do through transforming experience in our bodies today. She combines continued study in somatics with studies in depth psychology with a focus on community, liberation, indigenous and eco-psychologies at Pacifica.
Writer, vocalist, sacred scholar, and activist Amber McZeal utilizes sound therapy and guided somatic imagery to engage the knowledge of the body within an interactive and liberatory arts practice. Amber McZeal weaves together somatic practice with social justice and spirituality. Her approach centers imagination as foundational to movements to end oppression and create more humane social relationships. McZeal holds an MA degree in somatic depth psychology and is currently a doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
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