Discover the Gift of Loving Conflict
Waterline Co-op exists to carry the medicine this time is calling for. There is a better way to be with the conflicts that are currently polarizing our communities, our organizations, and our world. Join us as we move towards liberation and justice for all while bridging divides and healing relationships. Let's create a new possibility together.
METABOLIZING CONFLICT IN BELOVED COMMUNITY
Waterline is an alchemical space where people come to learn how to heal and transform themselves and the larger systems they are part of. Waterline is a space to experience and remember that engaging conflict can be loving, and that if we dig deeper, we can relate wider.
Our Mission (what we do)
We support leaders, educators, facilitators, community organizers, and changemakers to engage conflict as a site of learning and transformation. Through training, coaching, and facilitation, we build the capacity to engage tension and conflict with greater skill and care.
Our Vision (why we do it)
We envision a healthy and life-affirming culture in the social change sector rooted in generative conflict. A culture where we need not fear difference, but instead can harvest the wisdom of divergent perspectives and competing needs. One where communities and organizations can stay in relationship through difficulty and access the collective wisdom that lives below the waterline.
Our Values (what matters most)
Right relationship with self and others, social and environmental justice, loving conflict transformation, dignity and self-sovereignty for all beings, collective interdependence that supports life and liberation.
LEARN THE ART OF LEWIS DEEP DEMOCRACY WITH WATERLINE
Lewis Deep Democracy (LDD) is a facilitation toolkit rooted in Jungian psychology and developed from Arnold Mindell’s Process Oriented Psychology. Created by Myrna and Greg Lewis, LDD is an internationally recognized methodology that was born in the transition from apartheid to new democracy in South Africa. LDD is based on the premise that everybody deserves to have a voice, and that engaging intentionally with tension and polarization can help us all learn and grow. The method is powerful yet easy to learn, and adaptable to a wide range of life situations.
As a worker-owned cooperative of highly experienced practitioners, all Waterline members are trained in Lewis Deep Democracy. Fully trained LDD practitioners are experts in group dynamics, depolarizing conversations, and working with highly sensitive issues. At Waterline, we also bring in a strong orientation to equity, justice, anti-oppression, psychological safety, and center the wisdom of the body through embodiment practices.
We provide both in-house and open enrollment training in Levels 1-4 of Lewis Deep Democracy, as well as advanced training for experienced practitioners. Learn more about our training path and course calendar.
HOST TRANSFORMATIVE CONVERSATIONS
Our members and associates are also available for engagements as coaches, consultants, and mediators. Our specialty is working with socially conscious organizations and individuals who are longing to bring a powerful and practical approach to organizational development and conflict transformation. You don’t have to hold conflict alone.
