If the conflict between us is also within us, then this time of Corona isolation is an opportunity to focus WITHIN – to recognize our habits, biases, resistances and reactions; to witness, feel, assess and change.
Join PeoplesLab for a FREE Zoom session.
Offering reflexive participatory tools to transform Corona into possibility on the following dates:
Wednesday, April 22: 5pm-6pm
Sunday, April 26: 1pm-2pm
Wednesday, April 29: 4pm-5pm
Sunday, May 3: 1pm-2pm
Registration is free and required in order to receive a link to the Zoom room via email. Each session will be capped at 15 participants, and a waitlist will be started once a session reaches capacity.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/peopleslab-transforming-corona-into-possibility-tickets-103105284682
Everything has shifted under and around us. It’s a new world order with broken old world structures. Before we can recognize where to direct our attention as creative social engagers, we need to grieve our loss. We must acknowledge that we have been in shock, disoriented, off-mark, fearful and grieving. Many of us are feeling unfocused and confused. Let’s not avoid our feelings.
As we awaken into this new world, who are we? How do we assess conditions with new eyes, ears, minds and bodies, weave our ways towards developing new generative models for who we want to be and how we can best work with others? Down the road, will people hug each other more, or, will we fear each other more than ever?
"If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got." – Moms Mabley
PeoplesLab offers procedural, pragmatic and sensorial tools for change: meeting conflict with an adaptive process to revive trust between people; guiding recognition and understanding of differing perspectives; illuminating ways in which we may be caught in old structures, beliefs and habits; teaching communication and negotiation skills to bridge differences; and generating creative options for effective collaboration. In an era of severe cultural tension and change, our collective future depends on asking “Who are we to one another?” and choosing to align in mutual support to meet each other with new creative responses.
Dorit Cypis. Transart Advisor
Artist, Educator, Conflict Communications
dorit@doritcypis.com
www.doritcypis.com
Pictured: Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Morning, 1950, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation.