Create, Spyros Tsiknas and Dr Eve Olney are delighted to present Common Coherence: Working with conflict for sustainable futures, a presentation / workshop drawing from Non Violent Communication (NVC) that aims to create a sense of collective understanding and empowerment to participants who experience conflictual situations within collective work and collaborative practices. It is developed for those interested in creating ecological sustainable futures such as participatory artists working with communities, activist groups, collaborative creative practices and commoning collective assemblies.
There is a high level of complexity within the dynamics of groups that deal with complex social, cultural and environmental issues. Yet, there tends not to be a specific focus on how collectives can sustain themselves within their idiosyncratic group dynamics. Most have experienced conflictual situations which can result in self/group-exclusion and fragmentation. There is a need for creating a common field of existence across different perspectives in order to nurture a practicing reflective process and sense of coherence in terms of the inter-relationship between individual and group.
The workshop combines the basic principles of Non Violent Communication (Needs and Emotions), with methods of performing arts and reflexive critique. It aims to build new fields of understanding based upon vivid, experiential knowledge using role-play, based upon tacit, real life scenarios. It establishes how knowledgeably working with conflict and difference can create sustainable futures.