Healing Spaces for the Societal Challenges We Face
Finding Connection and Action in Speaking and Listening with Others
Facilitated by John Kinyon
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These online group spaces support individual and societal healing and solutions through speaking and listening with others about the challenges and conflicts we are facing in society.
These Healing Spaces are open to the public and held on different days and times of the month. You can also contact us to request facilitation for your group, community, or organization.
Even in times of great division, we can authentically express and listen in a way that creates understanding, connection, and action for creative solutions. It is an opportunity for healing collective and generational hurt and divides.
By attending these spaces, you can bring the learning and skills back into your life and the actions you take.
These spaces are guided and facilitated to support people who are similar and different to share deeply and authentically about what matters most. It is a place to experience understanding, connection, clarity, and new possibilities for action through talking about the larger challenges that are affecting and impacting them.
Where there is conflict and emotional pain, the structure and process of the space supports healing, peace, collaboration, and emergent ideas for solutions.
These Healing Spaces are an evolution from what was originally called Across the Aisle, and then later Across the Divide. John has been facilitating and developing conversation spaces to bridge and heal social differences and divides since 2019.
People who attend report having powerful, moving, and even transformational experiences.
The structure and process of these spaces is rooted in the Mediate Your Life 3Chair Model for relating to conflict from perspectives of I-You-We and levels of mindful awareness (dual and nondual).
These conversation spaces are also "brave spaces." Those who participate are invited to share their true beliefs and perspectives, which may be triggering for others present. So, these are spaces that can require courage to both speak one's truth and to hear the truth of others — as uncomfortable and challenging as this may be.
The conversations give the opportunity to talk about the most vital, urgent, and important societal conflicts and challenges we are facing, in a spirit of honesty, empathy, and collaboration. The intention is to experience holding our differences from an awareness of our underlying commonalities and larger unity and wholeness as human beings and one life of the planet.
It is a place to build community and connections with others, as well as practice skills for navigating and transforming conflict into new life-serving possibilities.
All are invited to participate, and you are also welcome to just listen and witness without speaking if you choose. Please invite anyone in your community who you think might be interested.
All are welcome to attend for free, and there is a donation button below if you'd like to financially contribute to this work. Receiving financial support is needed to continue offering this work to the world. If you or someone you know is connected with possible sources of funding, please email us at john@johnkinyon.com.
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