AORTA leads a training on conflict resolution through an anti oppression lens.
As part of our ongoing professional development series, The Democracy Center is excited to present AORTA's training on Conflict Resolution in the Workplace
As in all communities, conflict in organizations is unavoidable. It is also uncomfortable. In working through conflict, the question shouldn’t be, “How do we prevent conflict?” but rather “How do we address conflict in ways that are healthy and build a stronger organization?” This workshop will help participants identify conflict, even when its just a slow burning tension, and help us all distinguish between what healthy and unhealthy conflict look like. In the process we’ll share AORTA’s conflict resolution practices and methods in order to get a jump start in developing processes tailored to your own organization.
Please do not wear or apply strong smelling lotions, perfumes, etc. before or during the training to make this space more accessible to people with sensitivities.
Dana Pedersen's political awakening began as a young adult participating in living wage campaigns on her college campus in western Wisconsin. Since then, she has been on a trajectory of radical systemic analysis, critique, and imagination. In 2015, she joined the staff of Cooperation Texas to help develop worker-owned cooperatives in Austin, Texas and, through this work, formed ligaments with others in the solidarity economy movement. Her political involvements have focused on promoting economic democracy and Black self-determination in the South and conscientizing fellow tech workers within traditional, capitalist corporations. Dana’s education in Sociology and Communication Studies has produced close attention to how discourses help create reality and the importance of developing frames and narratives that liberate.
Dana’s deepest callings are to heal communities through creative expression and transform conditions by facilitating critical turning points for others. She excavates her own experiences as a queer, Black, Caribbean American woman to understand power and oppression more broadly and discover collective resources for change.