the conflict clinic
A free monthly space to practice power-conscious, integrity-rooted leadership in moments of rupture, tension, and transformation.
You’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, hired the consultants, practiced in the mirror.
And still – when real conflict surfaces within your organization, you freeze, or overfunction, or replay the conversations for three sleepless nights. Sometimes, you find yourself still “handling” it, six months later.
You’re not alone, and you’re not necessarily doing it wrong.
You’re navigating real power and privilege, real relationships, and a real desire to lead with care and clarity. You want to be a trauma-informed strategist, but you can’t bypass the hard decisions of budget cuts and board management.
🌀 The Conflict Clinic is a free, monthly practice ground for leaders navigating complex power dynamics in real time – within your organizations, your communities, your partnerships, and your self.
We don’t do performance or roleplay. We don’t do “fixing,” people-pleasing, or posturing.
Here, we practice presence, discernment – and relational skill-building.
what happens inside a clinic:
Each session is free, confidential, and held with care.
We begin with 10-15 minutes of grounding: a short teaching, embodied pause, or systems-framing to orient us. Topics may include:
How do we hold it all?
The five elements of conflict storytelling
How to apologize: a practice of accountability, amends, and repair
Circle-keeping: lessons from restorative and transformative justice
Shame and silence: conflict avoidance as a tactic of oppression
Repair as a strategic capacity
We then open the space for live, facilitated dialogue – including hot seat coaching and collective inquiry.
Bring a conflict you’re navigating – from the mundane to the existential – or simply listen, witness, and learn from others’ stories.
Our sessions together are not recorded, so we can move beyond performance and into presence.
You do not need to be articulate, resolved, or at your best to join us. You only need to be willing to try again.
Come with your uncertainty. Leave with a little more grounding in your presence, your voice, and your decisions.
🌞 this space is for you if:
You’re a philanthropy program officer, nonprofit executive director, operations strategist, grassroots advocate, creative director, or public servant navigating real power in your work
You’re navigating leadership at a delicate edge, in roles where the stakes are high and clarity is costly
You’re craving community, clarity, and tools that can hold complexity without collapse
You’ve been carrying conflict in public silence but private fury – unsure how to walk through it, unsure how to move without causing more harm
You need relational, equity-centered skill-building — not one-size-fits-all scripts
You long for a space in which nuance is welcomed, power is explicitly named, and wisdom is a bridge between emotion and logic