What is possible when we lean into disagreement?
What if instead of our differences feeling threatening we could experience them as a source of rich wisdom?
We create dialogue spaces where we can dive deeper and explore important, perhaps even fundamental, questions that sit underneath the surface of our lives.
Rather than focusing on outcomes or finding solutions, we invite you into an exploratory space of listening and sharing where differences and diversity of views are valued.
Engaging with potentially polarising issues through a structured and facilitated process creates an opportunity to connect and have rich and surprising encounters.
You will come away with a deeper appreciation of your own experience and a greater understanding of others.
What will we talk about?
That is up to you.
We have held conversations about Israel and Palestine, Sex and Gender, Race and Racism, to name a few.
We also offer sessions where participants decide in the moment what they would like to talk about.
How do you do it?
We work in a team of two and we are both experienced facilitators, bringing many years of experience working with conflict to facilitate listening, speaking, learning and understanding.
We bring tools from mediation, Deep Democracy and tailored interventions that are playful and creative.
Central to our approach is structured, facilitated dialogue where nobody has a monopoly on the truth, diversity of views is welcomed and participants seek to stay connected amidst disagreement.
Our recent work includes programmes with the University of Sussex, Coram Leap and ESWRA.
Our Team
Jassy Denison
Jassy is an accredited workplace mediator, trainer and supervisor, supporting teams in prison, educational and faith settings to develop new responses to conflict. She is a practitioner in the tradition of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, bringing mindfulness into dialogue and work settings, and with a particular interest in understanding our past in order to create a new future.
Over the past ten years Jassy has developed “white awareness” networks within the UK and Europe, coming together with other white people to see, understand and transform the legacy of colonialism.
Katharine Yates
Katharine is a facilitator and coach with a background in theatre, conflict awareness and group facilitation. She is a trained community mediator and Level 4 Lewis Deep Democracy practitioner. She enjoys bringing a somatic awareness into her work as well as supporting people to connect with their innate sense of play, especially when exploring more challenging issues.
Katharine has lived all over the world and is passionate about bringing people together across difference in spaces of dialogue. She is particularly interested in the role of discomfort as a teacher and learning about what it takes to stay with being uncomfortable.
“These sessions gave me an entirely new perspective. I gained a growing sense of empathy for my colleagues, becoming aware of their feelings, fears and making space to come into understanding with one another, and highlighting how much we keep inside that ought to be shared.”
— Session participantNewsletter
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