ICF Washington State Chapter Eastside Satellite
Topic: Keys to being a Shape-Shifter. A Conflict Playshop.
July 11, 10-Noon. Bellevue Library
What is your dominant style of conflict engagement? Can you go beyond the familiar and leap into styles you may not even like, for the sake of the “we”? How can you best pass through centered presence?
Bring to life the Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in you. Bring your willingness to play.
Explore a larger perspective of conflict styles and mediation, based in the simple and brilliant work of Diane Musho Hamilton, Zen teacher, mediator and trainer in Utah Supreme Court, and Integral Theory teacher. You can preview and order the book “Everything is Workable” here, at a discount, in addition to her online course and other Shambhala publications.
Experience qualities of presence, emotions and state beyond your current range. Notice boundaries of comfort by stepping into styles that are unfamiliar, yet dominant in others you encounter. Slow your heart rate, see others in a different light and take care of “we”. Based in the ontological practice of shape-shifting (versatility) and archetypes, and conflict styles.
Mia Angela Barbera, M.S., ACC, BSW, is trained in mediation and conflict coaching and served as conciliator in the city of Bellevue mediation department. Mia is a mindfulness practitioner of 18 years, a certified mediation guide with Shambhala meditation centers, and loves coaching dancers to authentically embody the particular archetypes of ballroom and Latin dances.
“Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation.” Humberto Maturana,
