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Finding Our Way Podcast
– Prentis Hemphill
Join Prentis, activists, artists and leaders as they discuss how to realize the world we want through our own healing and transformation. Complexities of conflict are woven throughout each episode and Season 2, Episode 7 is specifically titled “Navigating Conflict with Kazu Haga.” 

Everyday Practices of Transformative Justice
(15-minute video)
“Forget violence, harm and abuse, we’re not even good at handling conflict or misunderstandings…Really great work falls apart, not always because of outside forces, but often times because of the internal dynamics because people don’t know how to handle basic conflict.” – Mia Mingus.
In this video series, Mia and other transformative justice practitioners share about their decades of work and discuss specific ways we can proactively transform our culture and relationships. 

How To Support Harm Doers In Accountability?
(16-minute video)
Join adrienne maree brown and other transformative justice practitioners sharing about this core question. adrienne also shares helpful perspective on how she distinguishes who she stays in professional and personal relationships with.

Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook
– Weyam Ghadbian & Jovida Ross with Movement Strategy Center
This workbook offers exercises for personal and collective reflection grounded in awareness that when we avoid conflict or move through it carelessly, we end up acting out and reinforcing micro versions of oppressive structural patterns unconsciously, even if we are from an identity harmed by those systems. This can end relationships, sidetrack organizations, and undermine social movements.

Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication
– meenadchi
This is a workbook stocked with activities, exercises, and ideas to explore our relationship to communication, our bodies, and each other. Using a trauma-informed approach, this workbook encourages readers to deepen our emotional vocabularies so that we can work towards a more enlivened, healthy interdependence.

Fumbling Towards Repair – A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
– Mariame Kaba and
Shira Hassan
This workbook is intended to support people who have taken on the coordination and facilitation of formal community accountability processes to address interpersonal harm & violence.

We Will Not Cancel Us
– adrienne maree brown
Cancel or call-out culture is a fraught topic these days. Originating as a way for marginalized and disempowered people to address harm and take down powerful abusers, often with the help of social media, it is seen by some as having gone too far. But what is “too far” when you’re talking about imbalances of power and patterns of harm? And what happens when people in social movements direct our righteous anger inward at one another? 

Tools for Addressing Chapter Conflict – Prentis Hemphill with help from the Black Lives Matter Healing Justice Working group
When we understand the nature of conflict we can also understand that conflict between us, in our chapters, and within our network is an expected and common issue. This tool provides context and questions about trauma, triggers, direct communication, restorative justice/transformative justice, and facilitating a process to attend to conflict. 5 pages

The Transformative Power of Practice
– Ng’ethe Maina and Staci Haines of generative somatics
Explore the liberation possible when default practices that can result in us acting and reacting in ways that make us more difficult for others to trust, less effective in our work, or more limited in our approaches to systemic change and movement building are transformed into intentional practices. 4 pages