Embodied, playful, and creative approaches to engaging the shadows
An in-person, three-part, experiential sampler and practice laboratory
Dates and Times
Thursday, September 3, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Thursday, October 1, 2026
All sessions are held from 6:30–9:00 PM.
Location
The Well Asheville
3 Louisiana Avenue
Asheville, NC 28806
Donation
$20 per class
$50 for the full three-part series
Pre-registration is required. https://reclaimingwisdom.com/creating-connection-through-conflict-workshop/
Our shadows emerge most vividly in relationship. The parts of ourselves we reject, hide, defend, or project onto others are some of the most generative parts of us. What if we could engage them in successful, low-risk, and worthwhile ways? What if exploring these realms could actually be accessible and fun?
This is not a conflict-resolution class, a model of communication or repair, mediation, group therapy, or an attempt to become perfect at conflict. Nor is it a space for simply discussing and analyzing. It is a hands-on sampler of exercises that help us lean into our shadows in ways that cultivate discovery, connection, and delight.
Because the truth is that conflict is a doorway to greater honesty, compassion, creativity, intimacy, aliveness, and belonging.
Through games, ShadowPlay, process work, hot seats, ZEGG Forum, role play, relational experiments, fishbowls, nondual inquiry, family constellations, and other creative practices, we will explore all the dark muck we usually avoid. In the process, we introduce new patterns into the deeply ingrained strategies we have used to protect ourselves.
The process helps us all:
Normalize conflict and difference
Build attachment and belonging
Deepen intimacy and trust
Strengthen skills for conflict and repair
Increase self-awareness and emotional literacy
Explore the role of eros in conflict
This series is a SAMPLER—a short, experiential sampling of several possible practices rather than a full deep dive. The intention is to give us all a felt sense that this is possible by building appetite, safety, and curiosity for a longer-form Creating Connection Through Conflict offering.
This offering is for anyone who senses that conflict holds more possibility than we have been taught—whether you are navigating conflict in an intimate partnership, deepening friendships, building community, working collaboratively, or simply longing to become more skillful and alive in relationship.
You do not need to be in active conflict with anyone—nor do you need to be good at it. The group becomes a laboratory where our relational patterns can emerge naturally and offer insight, practice, healing, and new possibilities. Bring your defenses, your tenderness, the part that wants to run, the part that wants to be right, the part that wants to blame, the part that wants to be cherished, and the part that is afraid it may not belong.
The more of ourselves we can welcome, the more we can deepen intimacy with ourselves and others.
This is part of how we re-village: cultivating the capacity to remain human, connected, and alive within the circles we love—with conflict as one of our most important guides to deepening and belonging.
Lee Warren
Death & Tantra Educator
