🌟 Conflict Resolution & Community Healing
Tools and support for navigating inner tension, interpersonal friction, and group conflict
Conflict is inevitable in social change work. Whether it’s a disagreement between friends, tensions in activist groups, or the emotional burden of navigating injustice, healing conflict at the personal and community level is essential for sustained movement-building.
This guide offers tools for:
Navigating inner conflict with mindfulness and compassion.
Resolving interpersonal conflicts with clarity and care.
Transforming group tension into deeper trust and collaboration.
Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC)
Teaches empathetic listening and honest expression to resolve interpersonal and intragroup conflicts. Offers training, books, and resources in nonviolent communication (NVC).
Compassionate Listening Project
Promotes deep listening practices to heal divides and create connection. Offers workshops, online courses, and conflict transformation methods.
Training for Change: Tools for Change
Provides participatory training methods that build group cohesion, support difficult conversations, and equip activists with facilitation skills.
Supports structured dialogue and civic engagement to address polarization and social tension in communities. Emphasizes racial equity and local empowerment.
Supports nonprofits and leaders working on peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and inclusive community dialogue through grants and leadership programs.
Offers training in Kingian Nonviolence, anti-racism, and restorative justice. Draws from spiritual traditions to build peace through local conflict transformation.
Inner Peacebuilding Tools (via Insight Meditation Center), Redwood City, California
Meditation-based practices for navigating inner tension, reactivity, and fear. Not activist-specific but widely used by movement leaders and healers.
Restorative Practices by IIRP (International Institute for Restorative Practices)
Offers research-based frameworks, community toolkits, and graduate-level education in restorative justice.
Builds strong activist groups through conflict transformation and political healing.
Also See
💚 Resources for Activist Resilience and Emotional Support
Stay grounded, connected, and well while working for change
📚 Books to Help Us Bridge Divides and Resolve Conflict
Related Issues to Explore
Inner Conflict & Emotional Regulation: Practices for managing doubt, fear, and inner tension that may emerge during conflict or social change.
Conflict Transformation in Movements: Turning group friction into learning and deeper trust through facilitation, dialogue, and repair.
Facilitation & Dialogue Skills: Essential for navigating group conflict with clarity and care.
Community Dialogue & Polarization: Resources to bridge divides in polarized communities with deep listening and shared understanding.
Restorative & Transformative Justice: Alternatives to punishment that emphasize relationship repair, accountability, and healing.
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