Across years of building organisations, community work, political organising and teaching about abuse and sexual violence, I’ve come to understand conflict skills as fundamental to our ability to be, grow, work and build things together, in every aspect of life. I’ve spent a long time thinking through what it takes to stay curious and useful when things get really tough. I know the pain of projects and possibilities collapsing through unmanaged conflict, harm, accusatory cycles of recrimination and fear. where cultures of disposability take hold, deepening harm in moments when we most need to move towards each other with curiosity. Since 2020 I’ve offered workshops in and around skills and tools for conflict. Grounded in applied psychology, social movement work and proven traditions of transformative justice, they provide groups with a more critical lens on of how we talk about the difference between conflict, hurt, harm, disagreement and even abuse, addressing tendencies in your space with care, rigour and humour.

I now co-facilitate a lot of this work with the brilliant Sarj Lynch. Our sessions have supported groups and organisations to respond to each other with more care, clarity and proportion, with less avoidance, punishment or magical thinking about “perfect” behaviour. If you want help to dig into all this, build navigable structures, address harm earlier and strengthen a culture of generative conflict and shared responsibility, get in touch to have a chat.